Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-01-23

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"I am my Brothers' keeper"
-- Brother Robert Clarke

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A Brother Asks: What do you think is the biggest discrepancy Brothers notice between what they expect from Freemasonry and what they actually experience?

Coach: The Biggest Discrepancy?

Brother: Yes!

Coach: Let me frame it as a metaphor...

Brother: Okay, and?

Coach: Members come to find out all too late that they are Expected to Learn How to Run the Gym, rather than Work Out in the Gym!

Brother: Yikes! That hits home, hard.

Coach: Thanks. I wish it didn't.

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For Further Light:

Define Mason

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"The Indian term 'yoga' is derived from the Sanscrit verbal root 'yuj,' 'to link, join, or unite,' which is related etymologically to 'yoke,' a yoke of oxen, and is in sense analogous to the word 'religion' (Latin 're-ligio'), 'to link back, or bind.' Man, the creature, is by religion bound back to God. However, religion, 'religio,' refers to a linking historically conditioned by way of a covenant, sacrament, or Quran, whereas yoga is the psychological linking of the mind to that superordinated principle 'by which the mind knows.' Furthermore, in yoga what is linked is finally the self to itself, consciousness to consciousness; for what had seemed, through māyā, to be two are in reality not so; whereas in religion what are linked are God and man, which are not the same.”