Random Building Thoughts - 2020-12-31

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-------------- SHAPING YOU --------------

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-------------- KNOW! --------------

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"Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a real sense, be understood as a popular misunderstanding of mythology."

-- Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That

 

And those who engage in any popular misunderstanding of mythology unknowingly, typically find this blatantly insulting.

 

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-------------- GENTLE REMINDER --------------

 

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-------------- WELL-WISHES --------------

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Random Building Thoughts - 2020-12-30

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 If you examine Ritual, you shall find that it directs every person who understands it to Work upon his own Ashlar. Should he do so, he shall Cultivated his soul (heart and head) and in doing so, he shall develop his Temple of and for Humanity. 

 

 

-------------- LEARN! --------------

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Electing and Promoting Unworthy men leads to poor performance and negative impacts upon the people and Organizations they serve. The perpetually voiced dissatisfaction, frustration and angst you hear from those who support this process is merely unrecognized Just and Worthy punishment for the poor performance of each elector and promoter. 

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Once again, that's M-E-T-A-P-H-O-R-S!

 

"Like dreams, myths are productions of the human imagination. Their images, consequently––though derived from the material world and its supposed history––are, like dreams, revelations of the deepest hopes, desires and fears, potentialities and conflicts, of the human will––which in turn is moved by the energies of the organs of the body operating variously against each other and in concert. Every myth, that is to say, whether or not by intention, is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors."

-- Joseph Campbell, "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth and As Religion" (Copyright © 1986, 2002 Joseph Campbell Foundation), p. 27-28

 

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For Further Light:
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Random Building Thoughts - 2020-12-29

 

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Didn't Plato say something like this as well?

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Religion and Politics are Proscribed from Open Lodge, not because they themselves cause Disruptions and Disharmony but because too few Brothers have Mastered Civil Discourse - one of the very core goals of the Trivium. 

Masterful Brothers have no difficulty whatsoever Respectfully Discussing Religion and Politics, even when faced with the Ignorant Disrespect of others. 

On the other hand, Brothers who wear titles and who have not done the Work to earn them are one of the central reasons such Proscriptions exist.

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FILED UNDER: WHERE'S YOUR ASHLAR IN ALL THIS?

 

A Little Ashlar Info...

 

1) Rough Ashlars are roughly hewn but generally unworked Freestones. These are Profanes and newly Entered Apprentices who have yet to begin their Perfecting Work.

 

2) Common Ashlars are Rough Ashlars that are currently being worked upon. These are Apprentices (not to be confused with Entered Apprentices) who are doing their Perfecting Work.

 

3) Perfect Ashlars are Common Ashlars that are currently Suitable for the Builder's use. They contain flaws but none that would make them unsuitable for the Builder's use. These are Apprentices who have finished their Apprenticeship Work (not just the proficiencies but the Work pointed out within the degree) and newly Passed Fellow Crafts who have done their Perfecting Work but have yet to climb the stairs.

 

4) Raised Ashlars were Perfect Ashlars that were Raised to the level where they are ready to be positioned and cemented into that House not made by hand. These are Fellow Crafts who finished their Fellow Craft Work by climbing the stairs and who have Raised themselves by doing this climbing Work.

 

SO! Where's your Ashlar in all this?

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-------------- ON YOU! --------------

-------------- MYTH -------------- 

 

"One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart."

Joseph Campbell, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space.

 

 

-------------- YEAR'S END --------------

-------------- REVIEW -------------- 

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Random Building Thoughts - 2020-12-28

 

 

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When you do not apply your Working Tools,
you Build things with poor Measure.

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CRAFT (n.) Old English cræft (West Saxon, Northumbrian), -creft (Kentish), originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cognates: Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, dexterity; art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led by late Old English to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling," also "something built or made." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English. 

 

CRAFT (v.) Old English cræftan "to exercise a craft, build," from the same source as craft (n.). Meaning "to make skillfully" is from early 15c., obsolete from 16c., but revived c. 1950s, largely in U.S. advertising and commercial senses. 

 

Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=craft

Special thanks to Bro. Nick Adair for inspiring this post.

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 -------------- POINT TO PONDER --------------

 Of the two Holy Saints John, which was Christian?

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 -------------- PILLARS --------------

Your Answer Please?

-------------- QUIZ TIME --------------

Three Great Lights... to what do they allude?

-------------- REMINDER --------------

-------------- FOUNDATIONS --------------

Only your BEST thoughts please.

-------------- VOICES --------------

The man is correct!

-------------- SOUND WARNING -------------- 

-------------- LEAD THEM -------------- 

 

 

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

 

 

 -------------- REVIEW -------------- 

 

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