Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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FILED UNDER: Not All Interpretations are Sound!

Some thoughts about how Masonry develops Interpretation and Application Abilities within Masons.

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Axiom 1: There exist infinite interpretations.
Axiom 2: There exist finite optimal interpretations that are reality based, that are truthful, and that actually do apply, that are inline with what was originally intended.

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Masonry's Goal is Authentic* Useful Interpretation and Application.
Mastery is Achieved when Interpretation and Application are Authentic and Useful.
Masters Develop Authentic Useful Interpretations and Applications while seeing the Authenticity of another's.
Masons who do the Work Master Authentic Useful Interpretation and Application.
Masonry Develops Authentic Useful Interpretations and Application.
Masonry: Authentic Useful Interpretation and Application on Steroids!
Authentic Useful Interpretation and Application: Mastery Achieved!

* Authentic: genuine - true - real - veritable - original

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FILED UNDER: I Have a Secret

Profane: [cocky voice] I know a whole bunch of your secrets!

Freemason: Ah! So you haven't yet found out what happens to non-members who let us know they have Freemasonic secrets?

Profane: [panicking voice] {swallows hard) Just kidding! Really... just a bad joke! Seriously!

Freemason: What did you say your name was?

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Masons have Secrets not out of fear but because they have done the Work that allows for such Secrets to be revealed to them. They keep these Secrets to themselves not because they must but because those who have yet to do the Work cannot possibly see them, even though these Secrets are plainly seen by those who have done the Work. Masons do not share these Secrets out of a conscious choice not to share them; they do not share them because such Secrets refuse to be seen by those who are untrained — such individuals are blind to them. Masons know that these Secrets protect themselves from those who seek them wrongly. That is the nature of Secrets and having them cultivates this most base understanding!

You have a true Secret when it can be revealed openly and plainly and those who are untrained do not recognize it. If they do see what you make effort to put forth, and they are untrained, then what you truly have is a contrived ploy designed to both satisfy and divert the attention of the untrained.

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TO BECOME!!!!!

"To become—in Jung’s terms—individuated, to live as a released individual, one has to know how and when to put on and to put off the masks of one’s various life roles. ‘When in Rome, do as the Romans do,’ and when at home, do not keep on the mask of the role you play in the Senate chamber.

"But this, finally, is not easy, since some of the masks cut deep. They include judgment and moral values. They include one’s pride, ambition, and achievement. They include one’s infatuations.

"It is a common thing to be overly impressed by and attached to masks, either some mask of one’s own or the mana-masks of others. The work of individuation, however, demands that one should not be compulsively affected in this way.

"The aim of individuation requires that one should find and then learn to live out of one’s own center, in control of one’s for and against.

"And this cannot be achieved by enacting and responding to any general masquerade of fixed roles."
-- Joseph Campbell

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