The
same men who Complain Bitterly about other Brothers being fairly
Compensated for their Works and who Dismiss their Brother's Contribution
as Mercenary when Fees are Requested for Work are likely to turn around
and Guiltlessly accept the Benefits of these very same Brothers' Works
without Paying them fairly when no fee is Requested.
Some men Understand
their Obligations; Some don't.
...out of the value of ANYTHING...
How do you assure that your Brothers efforts are valued and fairly compensated?
-------------- BEING HUMAN --------------
Being Perfectly Human Provides Countless Opportunities to Understand and Accept Perceived Imperfections.
-------------- MYTH --------------
"Mythology is the womb of mankind's initiation to life and death." -- Joseph Campbell, The Flight of the Wild Gander
-------------- NO WHY, KNOW WHY --------------
I: Why did you become a Mason?
R: There is no "why". I am one. When I discovered I was one, I joined the Freemasonic Society soon thereafter.
-------------- PONDERING --------------
Can
you ever not be yourself? Are you who you are until you aren't or when
you aren't who you are, is this merely revealing who you truly are? -- Coach John S Nagy
-------------- PONDERING TOO --------------
"In
business, the rise of the welfare state froze the status quo,
perpetuating the power of the big corporations of the pre-income-tax
era, placing them beyond the competition of the tax-strangled newcomers.
A similar process took place in the welfare state of the intellect. The
results, in both fields, are the same." --Ayn Rand | Philosophy: Who Needs It
-------------- HIS DOMINION --------------
"This
most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,
could only
proceed from the counsel
and dominion of an intelligent and powerful
Being....
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world,
but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion...." -- Sir Isaac Newton
From History and Politics - Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift]
The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs.
Traditionally,
Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations
ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather,
had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after he cut
himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between
Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and
Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one Emperor
lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an
egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by
the Lilliputians as the smaller end.
The
Big-Endian/Little-Endian controversy reflects, in a much simplified
form, British quarrels over religion. England had been, less than 200
years previously, a Catholic (Big-Endian) country; but a series of
reforms beginning in the 1530s under King Henry VIII (ruled 1509-1547),
Edward VI (1547–1553), and Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) had converted
most of the country to Protestantism (Little-Endianism), in the
episcopalian form of the Church of England. At the same time, revolution
and reform in Scotland (1560) had also converted that country to
Presbyterian Protestantism, which led to fresh difficulties when England
and Scotland were united under one ruler, James I (1603–1625).
Religiously
inspired revolts and rebellions followed, in which, indeed, one king,
Charles I (1625–1649) lost his life, and his son James II lost his crown
and fled to France (1685–1688). Some of these conflicts were between
Protestants and Catholics; others were between different branches of
Protestantism. Swift does not clearly distinguish between these
different kinds of religious strife.
Swift
has his Lilliputian informant blame the "civil commotions" on the
propaganda of the Emperor of Blefuscu, i.e. the King of France; this
primarily reflects the encouragement given by King Louis XIV of France
to James II in pursuit of his policies to advance the toleration of
Catholicism in Great Britain. He adds that "when (the commotions) were
quelled, the (Big-Endian) exiles always fled for refuge to that empire
(Blefuscu/France)". This partially reflects the exile of King Charles II
on the Continent (in France, Germany, the Spanish Netherlands, and the
Dutch Republic) from 1651 to 1660, but more particularly the exile of
the Catholic King James II from 1688-1701. James II was dead by the time
Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, but his heir James Francis Edward
Stuart, also Catholic, maintained his pretensions to the British throne
from a court in France (primarily at Saint-Germain-en-Laye) until 1717,
and both Jameses were regarded as a serious threat to the stability of
the British monarchy until the end of the reign of George II. The court
of the Pretender attracted those Jacobites, and their Tory sympathizers,
whose political activity precluded them staying safely in Great
Britain; notable among them was Swift's friend, the Anglican Bishop of
Rochester Francis Atterbury, who was exiled to France in 1722.
Swift's
Lilliputian claims that the machinations of "Big-Endian exiles" at the
court of the Emperor of Blefuscu have brought about a continuous war
between Lilliput and Blefuscu for "six and thirty moons" (Lilliputians
calculate time in 'moons', not years; their time-scale is apparently
also one-twelfth the size of normal humans.) This is an allusion to the
wars fought under King William III and Queen Anne against France under
Louis XIV, the War of the Grand Alliance (1689–1697) and the War of the
Spanish Succession (1701–1713). In both cases, the claims of the exiled
House of Stuart were marginal to other causes of war, but were an
important propaganda point in Great Britain itself, as both James II and
James Francis Edward were accused of allying with foreigners to force
Catholicism on the British people.
One of my Favorite Facetious Freemasonic Definitions:
FREEMASONS,
n.
An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic
costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working
artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past
centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the
generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up
distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and
Formless Void.
The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne,
Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and
Buddha.
Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of
Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great
Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian
Pyramids -- always by a Freemason.
BTW -
I am a Business Coach and Technical Advisor. I used my nearly 40 years
of experience and training to evaluate the organization, to research its
origins and evaluate its practices, all this to write the book. It's
not for the faint-hearted. It's a heck of a roller coaster ride for
anyone who had deeply entrenched preconceived notions as to what
Freemasonry is.
SPOILER ALERT: Freemasonry
is far better than is reported and there's far more involved in its
practice than any one usually imagines, and not for the reasons most
people assume!
What distinguishes Ruffians from Masters is their unwavering and consistent response to the Eternal Question:
Does
the strong cord of a Moral Obligation Trump following and supporting
directions that blatantly conflict with Civil, Moral, or Religious
Duties or Privileges?
“A
zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government,
and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an
attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence
and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been
interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into
parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much
more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their
common good”
-- James Madison, The Federalist #10, November 22, 1787
-------------- PREMATURE --------------
Religious
and Political talk is proscribed from Lodges because Lodges are
training grounds for eventual serious study of Theology and Philosophy,
the non-profane forms of Religion and Politics.
The proscription is
imposed not because such talk causes problems; it is because such talk
is premature and hence a superfluity!
-------------- INSPIRE! --------------
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. " ~ William A. Ward
-------------- BOURNE --------------
Tomorrow's
Bourne once Passed Brings Into Being Today. You cannot live in
anything but the Moment, but this Reality should not Proscribe Thoughts
for Tomorrow.
-------------- TOMORROW --------------
re: tomorrow is a allusion that never comes....
The
Word "tomorrow" is a label placed upon an event in a long chain of
events created by a realization of the association between the rotation
of the earth and the light of the sun and is denoted loosely in
divisions called "days". The demarcation is used to describe when one
day ends and another starts. Its purpose is to assist with time
management.
Tomorrow becomes today once this bourne is crossed and it
does indeed "come". If you doubt this in any way, look up the etymology
of the word "become" and you get:
BECOME
1) begin to be.
2) grow to be; turn into.
3) qualify or be accepted as; acquire the status of.
4) happen to.
Origin: Old English becuman "happen, come about," also "meet with, arrive,"
Tomorrow
BECOMES Today and when it does, it comes into being; once this occurs
and the bourne has passed, a new Tomorrow is then "bourne" again and the
cycle repeats itself endlessly.
Semantically,
it's a lot of fun to play with words, but let's not fool ourselves into
actually thinking play is the reality the words were intended to
denote. When words are used to describe a changing reality, locking
into the word's meaning a non-change is something that transforms and
abuses the word's original intent and meaning.
-------------- HUMOR --------------
I'll not sugar coat this! If you've not studied the seven liberal arts and sciences, you'll never get square humor.
-------------- ENEMY OF JUSTICE --------------
-------------- SHADY BROTHERS --------------
The Reaction of some Brothers to Light is to put on Shades. Don't let these Shady Characters Blind you too!
-------------- GRASP --------------
You Shall Not Truly Know the Mysteries Until You have Fully Grasped the Masteries Required.
-------------- THOUGHTFUL CARE --------------
Do you use the same Thoughtful Care in Choices and Decisions dealing
with Your Life as you do with those Affecting the Lives of your
Potential Brothers?
-------------- REMEMBER! --------------
-------------- PSYCHE & SYMBOL --------------
Worth Viewing!
-------------- ABILITY --------------
-------------- HYPOCRISY --------------
Organizations Highly Espousing Morality while supporting laws Proscribing Accountability for infractions of its laws is not Irony; that's Hypocrisy.
-------------- TEASE --------------
The purpose of Adam's creation is assumed by many to be to serve God. However, the Bible does not agree with this conclusion.
