Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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Woe to those who confuses the two...

For Further Light:
CHALLENGE!

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On the Square:

Just as the Points of the Compasses Represent

the Work Goals of the 1st and 2nd Degree

– the Cultivation of the Heart and the Head respectively –

by Extension,

the Left and Right Legs of the Square

Represent the Work actually Done

to Cultivate one’s Heart and Head respectively.

When you have not yet done

this Cultivation Work upon yourself,

but earnestly want to,

you can get a Leg up on It

by examining to what Ritual alludes.

Better yet,

make it a Point to do the Work

that Transforms each side of you

from an Oblong Square to a Perfect Square.

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"Mythology is an organization of symbolic images and narratives metaphorical of the possibilities and fulfillment in a given culture at a given time. Mythology is a metaphor. God, angels, purgatory, these are metaphors."

-- Joseph Campbell, interviewed in the New York Times, February 1985

Yes! The map is not the territory and everything placed upon the map are mere references. And when you don't understand "metaphors", you are bound to and bound by the imagined references upon these maps as if these metaphors actually exist as the symbols they represent!

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(Hat tip to Bro. Jason Eddy!)

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A Few Brothers Ask these Questions: On which side of the candidate is the SD supposed to be while conducting candidates around the Altar? Why is this? And how is all this justified if no one is supposed to get between the WM and the Altar during open lodge?

You approach your WM for answers to thee questions that are backed by Masonic teachings. The WM believes this to be an excellent learning opportunity for both the Candidates and you.

He gives you the following tasks to complete and asks you to do so within 24 hours.

You agree to abide by his request.

YOUR TASK:

1) Write out responds to the Brothers questions providing rational and logical reasons to back them up.

2) Anticipate any objections and handle them as well.

3) Come up with series of Q&As that lead Candidates to the answer for themselves.

How do you go about your tasks and rise to the challenge before you?

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