Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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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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"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.