Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Friday, November 27, 2020

Random Building Thoughts - 2020-11-27

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(Hat Tip to Bro. Thomas Hamilton)

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The candidates are getting restless once again. They were very disappointed that they were not told before their initiation that they were to be setting foot on sacred ground during the ceremony. You find yourself scratching your head and wondering why they are making such a big deal about it.

Your Task:
1) Research Scripture for anything that denotes Solomon's Temple as being holy ground and write down each section you find.
2) Explain each passage's validity as to the claim that the ground is sacred and what difference this knowledge should make toward candidates' ritual experiences.
3) Justify either informing or not informing candidates before their ritual experience as to their treading upon sacred soil during ritual.

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<sigh> ...and then there are those of us who seek and find Light and write those books that these Freemasons will never seek...

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"It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those constant human fantasies that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows from the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid."
- Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (Third edition copyright © 2008 Joseph Campbell Foundation), p.7

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Furthermore, the moment you blame them is the moment you become responsible for taking your life in new directions.

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FOR FURTHER LIGHT: https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-brother-asks-freethought-and-education.html

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Coach, We (lodges in NW, CO), have put on a handful of EA degrees over the summer. I'm guessing I'll be called upon soon to conduct these Brothers up a flight of winding stairs. These will be the first times that I give the lecture since reading "Building Athens". Thanks to you, it will be a different experience for ME this time! You have added many new layers of understanding of it for me and I'm anxious to start "shining it up" with a new and extra perspective. And about "Athens"..........this is weird...I went to Ohio U in Athens, and majored in Interpersonal Communication (Speech Communication, Persuasion, etc). Minor in Sociology. Just an observation..but ironic nonetheless.

-- David Moran to John S Nagy -November 27, 2011 at 2:58 AM