Friday, January 22, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-01-22

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PSA for the Day: What should be learned from a bunch of recovering drunks?

Until...
 
...Freemasonic based organizations present a unified front...
...that creates for itself members so attractive...
...that men outside its walls wanting better for themselves see our members as living examples of what they want so much so that they summon within each of them a unstoppable passion to obtain and attract as well...
...Lodges will forever struggle with acquisition, retention and attrition of members.

Reference: Twelve Step Eleventh Tradition...
 
“Our public relations policy is based on attraction 
rather than promotion; 
we need always maintain personal anonymity 
at the level of press, radio, and films.”
 
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I: Who was the first MASON?
R: Giovanni Masonni, an Italian guy from way back when who used to crack rocks for entertainment purposes. He had so much fun that others wanted to join in on the fun with Masonni. His rock cracking followers have been referred to as "Masons" ever since. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-------------- THE WASTE LAND --------------
 
 
 
"The Waste Land, let us say then, is any world in which (to state the problem pedagogically) force and not love, indoctrination, not education, authority, not experience, prevail in the ordering of lives, and where the myths and rites enforced and received are consequently unrelated to the actual inward realizations, needs, and potentialities of those upon whom they are impressed."
-- Joseph Campbell, Creative Mythology (Vol. IV of The Masks of God), p.388
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Nowhere have I seen this reality expressed more 
than through Brothers who have been indoctrinated, not enlightened,
by the assembly line process implemented by "The Blue Lodge" systems
that exist in far too many jurisdictions throughout the world.

Those Brothers who escape these systems and who have exited into the light
still have a difficult time dealing with the masses still chained to their cave walls.
 
 -------------- MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP --------------
 
 
The Motivation to Better oneself
is driven from within,
and it comes from without. 
 
A man must Desire Better
with all his Heart
and Invest in getting Better
with all his Might
for Better to have any Value to him
whatsoever. 
 
When Better is provided to him,
without much Work on his part,
he shall not get out of Better
what he would have or could have
had he Truly Worked for Better
himself. 
 
Masonry Protects its Mysteries.
What It Demands from men
naturally filters
the serious and committed
from those who are not.
 
For any man to have
Masonry's Advantages
He must truly Become
Better.
Not merely Appear
Better.
 
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-------------- THE CHANGE WANTED --------------
 
 
-------------- IMPACT! --------------
 
 ...and plan your lessons so that the produce predictable results!
 
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 (Hat tip to Bro. David Moran!)

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Nailed It!
 
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-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION -------------- 
 
 
THE FELLOW CRAFT DREAM!
 
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 Be Well and Travel Light!

-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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