Monday, March 18, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-18

 

-------------- RIP -------------- 
 

On this date (3/18) in 1314 CE, 
the Templar Grand Master Jacques DeMolay 
was burned at the stake.
 
May he rest in peace.
 
For Further Light:
 
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION -------------- 
 

-------------- WELL? --------------  
 

Do you Truly Believe
that a Bunch of Uninformed men,
Acting out Misunderstood Scripts,
and who Ignore the Work
these Scripts Direct them toward,
are going to Assist you Toward
any True Transformation?
 
-------------- FRANK! -------------- 
 
 
It's Only When a Missing Puzzle Piece
Completes a Heretofore Non-Sense Picture
That Everything Truly Makes Sense!
"Being Frank About Freemasonry"
 
For Further Light:
Frank!

 
 -------------- CRAFTIER --------------  
 
 
The Craftier men get,
the more Skill they have to Perceive
and Bring forth Beauty.
 
-------------- ROADMAPS --------------  
 
 

The EA Degree provides a roadmap for Inward Travels. 
 
It provides a guide to the inner Terrain that, when Traveled, enables a man to know his true self and true nature -- The Creature that is himself. The Work it directs him to is Foundational to his Learning. In this respect, it is a roadmap of Preparation for Learning. It is focused upon the physical man. Sadly, few men follow the map that they are offered.
 
The FC Degree provides a roadmap for Outward Travels. 
 
It provided a guide to the outer Terrain that, when Traveled, enables a man to know the Universe -- the Whole of Creation. The Work it directs him to is Structural and sets the stage of his Actual Learning. In this respect, it is a roadmap to Learn How to Learn. It is focused upon the mental man. Sadly, even fewer men follow the map that they are offered.
 
The MM Degree provides a roadmap for Eternal Travels. 
 
It provided a guide to the spiritual Terrain that, when Traveled, enables a man to know the Word -- the Creator. The Work it directs him to is his Actual Learning and Teaching. In this respect, it is a roadmap to Further Cultivation of the Heart and Mind, Travel and Employment of Cunning Craftsmanship. It is focused upon the spiritual man. Sadly, it is rare men who follows the map that they are offered.

 For Further Light:
MAPS

-------------- GRAMMAR --------------  
 

FILED UNDER:
GRAMMAR - Worth reviewing if not studying!
 
 -------------- SPECULATE! --------------  
 
SPECULATE UPON THIS!
 
The direction you chose to focus a word's meaning shall assist you in determining the results you do and don't obtain. 
 
A case in point:
 
A Stone Mason <-- Operative --> Someone who Deliberately and Consciously Works upon Clearly Defined Projects 
 
One direction keeps a man stuck; the other requires a man to do Work! If there is a Secret that the Fraternity keeps hidden in plan view, it would be that Operative Masonry (OM) is still Practiced within the Craft and you can see it (OM) in the Results that some Brothers Obtain! For all those who do not Practice it (OM), you shall see very little Transformation.
 
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-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
 
FILED UNDER:
On Becoming an Adult!
 
TO BECOME!!!!!
 
"To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, 
to live as a released individual,
 one has to know how and when to put on and to put off 
the masks of one’s various life roles. 
‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do,’ 
and when at home, 
do not keep on the mask of the role
 you play in the Senate chamber. 
But this, finally, is not easy, 
since some of the masks cut deep. 
They include judgment and moral values. 
They include one’s pride, ambition, and achievement. 
They include one’s infatuations. 
It is a common thing to be overly impressed
 by and attached to masks, 
either some mask of one’s own
 or the mana-masks of others. 
The work of individuation, however,
 demands that one should not be 
compulsively affected in this way.
 The aim of individuation 
requires that one should find
 and then learn to live out of one’s own center,
 in control of one’s for and against. 
And this cannot be achieved 
by enacting and responding to 
any general masquerade of fixed roles."
-- Joseph Campbell

  
-------------- THE CAVE --------------  
 

 
 
Cowan (source: Gaelic) --> Hollow, Hole, Crevice, Cove, Cave, etc. --> Cave! ... --> Allegory? --> Yes!
 
-------------- PSA --------------  
 
 
-------------- HUMOR --------------  
 

Brother 1: I hate feeling like I am in constant competition!
Brother 2: I hate it more than you do!
 
-------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-17

   

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  
 
 
When Our Cast Authentically Portrays Our Characters,
Our Patrons are Captivated by Our Play's Intent. 

When Our Cast Breaks Character,
They Break the Play's Spell,
and Our Patrons will Focus on Our Character.
 
For Further Light:
Character!


-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------  
 
 
The Charges!
 
 -------------- GIVE 'EM GOOD REASONS --------------  
 
 
-------------- END IN MIND --------------  
 
 
-------------- SEEK THE RIGHT CROWD! --------------  
 
 
When those around you
don't inspire you toward greatness,
you're hanging with the wrong crowd. 
 
 -------------- UNSTOPPABLE! --------------  
 
 
Make Masonry Unstoppable!
Don't let a lack of Lodge meetings
prevent you from practicing Masonry
moment to moment and day to day!
Masonry doesn't start at Lodge;
Masonry begins with You!

 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
 
“We're not on our journey to save the world 
but to save ourselves. 
But in doing that you save the world. 
The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
Joseph Campbell 
 
-------------- PSA --------------  
 
 
What's a Brother Trust Worth these Days?

-------------- HUMOR --------------  
 
 
-------------- YAAARRRRR!!!!!!! --------------  
 
 

 Aye! Arrrr you Arrr-ish this fine day?
YAAARRRRR!!!!!!!
 
-------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-16

 

 -------------- TROWELS --------------


Trowels Do No Good
without Skill Coupled with Ample Amounts
of Well-Tempered Cement to Spread.
 
For Further Light:
CEMENT...
 
 
 -------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------


Why members leave...

-------------- TELOS --------------

For Further Light:
Telos...

 -------------- IGNORANCE -------------- 

 

"Not Ignorance,
but ignorance of ignorance
is the death of knowledge."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

 -------------- PSA --------------
 


Beauty, left unflanked and unprotected
by Wisdom and Strength,
gets assaulted, destroyed and buried
in Rubbish by those who are
unworthy to possess it.
 
 -------------- MYTH --------------
 
"When you have lived your individual life
 in your own adventurous way 
and then look back upon its course, 
you will find that you have lived a model human life, 
after all."
Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That, p. 31

 -------------- WELL? --------------


What Eternal Fires are You Stoking?
 
 -------------- LITE IT UP! --------------


When It's Lit... 
...Awesome Points Are Raised!
 
 -------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-15

    

 -------------- DANGEROUS --------------

Their Skills or Minds
don't make Ruffians Rough Ashlars;
their Hearts do.
They don't Complete the EA Work.
Hence, they do FC Work on Improperly
and Ill-Prepared Foundations.
This is what makes them so dangerous.
Empowered Minds Governed by Immature Hearts
bring fourth Civil Disharmony,
Death and Buried Beauty.

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------


-------------- FLASHBACK HUMOR --------------

From Corona Lodge No. 666...
(Hat tip to Bro. Bruce W Clark
shared 3 years ago in the very beginning of the crud)

  -------------- PSA -------------- 

 

 -------------- MYTH --------------

"Whenever a knight of the Grail
tried to follow a path made by someone else,
he went altogether astray.
Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's footsteps.
Each of us has to find his own way,
and this is what gives our Occidental world
its initiative and creative quality.
Nobody can give you a mythology.
The images that mean something to you,
you'll find in your dreams,
in your visions, in your actions
— and you'll find out what they are
after you've passed them."
--Joseph Campbell

 -------------- MORE TO IT! --------------

FILED UNDER: 
WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOU KNOW! 
 
Ides - (in the ancient Roman calendar)
a day falling roughly in the middle of each month
(the 15th day of March, May, July, and October,
and the 13th of other months),
from which other dates were calculated.

And here's some of... the rest of the story...

 
And here's some of... the rest of the story... 

  -------------- TRUE VALUE! --------------

No matter what you Seek,
and no matter what you Find,
if it does not Sustain you
or Transform You
and your Behavior for the Better,
what true Value was your Quest?

 -------------- DISCOURSE --------------

FILED UNDER:
DISCOURSE WORTH HAVING!
 
Do you want to help the next generation of Masons to develop into Better men? Engage them in Q&A discourse related to what Ritual directs them toward, premised upon asking a simple question:
What Work must be done to make a good man a Better man, and what occurs for a man who leaves such improvement Work undone?
 
Here are some lead in questions based on Working Tools and Lodge Furniture:
 
1) CG - What is Divesting? How is it done?
2) CG - What are Vs&Ss? How are they similar and different?
3) TFIG - What is the foundation of Time Management? Where do you start?
4) TFIG - What must be done to manage time wisely? What tools must you use?
5) J'sL - What are the Cardinal and Theological Virtues? What plan must be executed to develop them within your life?
6) VoSL - What most important to you? What must you do to honor it?
7) Cs - What is Circumscription? How does one go about Circumscribing?
8) Cs - What are the similarities and difference between Passions and Desires?
9) Cs - What does Subdue mean? How do you benefit from it? What are some examples if subduing?
10) VoSL - What does it mean to be true to one's Word?  How do you know when your word is not true?
 
...and so forth. 
 
The Q&A could go on for months and years. The quality of the discourse and the men engaging in it would certainly improve over time, if they do the Work!
 
Good Luck and Travel Light!

 -------------- FOOLING AROUND! -------------- 

 -------------- BOLDLY GO! --------------


 -------------- READ! --------------

Get Yours Now!!

 -------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
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