-------------- HUMOR --------------
I refuse to believe the length of my toe
has anything to do with your obligations!
-------------- SUBDUE! --------------
When members do their Apprentice Work
their passions become a force to reckoned with
rather than a force to be wrecked with.
-------------- EDUCATION --------------
"Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world."
-- Nelson Mandela
And the type of education you provide
shall determine the direction of that change!
-------------- LIVE THEM! --------------
Don't just Remember Them...
LIVE THEM!
-------------- MYTH --------------
-------------- WHEN? --------------
When
you Fail to Realize
that words Change their Meanings within Context,
you Bring Unintended Meaning
into everything you hear or read.
-------------- GL --------------
FILED UNDER: YOU are your Grand Lodge. Expecting your GL to improve without improving yourself is insane.
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Freemasonic Rituals are ROAD MAPS!
They point out the features of territories classified as "life improvement" opportunities. We know these activities to cause "betterment" when engaged in.
In other words, should we use these maps to explore, experience and live within those territories, we must engage in activities that make us better men.
The problem is these crucial understandings are not being taught! They are put aside as distractions to be overshadowed by stoking the furnace activities that keep the degree making machine hot and moving.
As a result, members are told to focus upon ritual for all the wrong reasons. They focus upon preserving the maps rather than understanding them. They focus upon keeping the maps static rather than reshaping them so that members can better understand the territories each represent. They focus upon acting each ritual out flawlessly rather than living within the territories each represent. And by doing all these things, the life changing value and opportunities that each offers is ignored all in the name of "tradition and status quo" and to the detriment of the Craft and society as a whole.
What is also not being taught is that Masonry is the TERRITORY that these Freemasonic Maps represent. Members have no clue how to build themselves into better men, much less others. But they do know how to maintain and service the machine. As a result, very few willingly explore these Territories of improvement; less actually do.
And when they do, and they come back to lodge like Plato's allegorical cave character, to try to discuss what they have seen, and they're thought to be madmen by those chained to Ritual's dark walls.
Proof that knowledge alone
does not improve humankind
is overwhelmingly obvious.
does not improve humankind
is overwhelmingly obvious.
Proof that too many humans
choose to ignore this proof
is equally obvious.
-------------- A MESSAGE --------------
A
Message that I got from Freemasonry:
Life's gonna hit ya hard
and bury
ya in Rubbish,
even when you Master it,
and you'll still Rise up
above
the Trash,
with the assistance of the Almighty
and your true Brothers,
if you keep your Integrity.
-------------- BECOME! --------------
You Become The Word
You Aspire to Be
by Undertaking Your Quest
With Integrity!
-------------- WILLINGNESS --------------
"if it is to be it is up to me."
-- William H. Johnsen
-------------- ANTI WHAT?!?!? --------------
LOL! I just read a comment made by a Brother about my most recent book, "The Craft Unmasked! The Uncommon Origin of Freemasonry and Its Practice".
It goes like this:
"This appears to be an ad for a questionable book. In trying to get more information, I found some of exactly the same reviews verbatim on the Amazon site. I noticed in one of the reviews that it is described as being one of the best books since two known anti-Masonic books. Be careful."
I went to Amazon and read the two reviews and the ONLY two books that were mentioned at all, much less in comparison, were "Born in Blood" and "The Hiram Key".
My question out to you is:
Are these mentioned books Anti-Masonic books in your eyes? Enquiring minds want to know!
BTW - You'll ALWAYS find "QUESTIONABLE" materials within my books. (wink wink... nod nod...)
BTW - You'll ALWAYS find "QUESTIONABLE" materials within my books. (wink wink... nod nod...)
-------------- HIRAM'S --------------
Aw, come on now!
Is there truly a Quality problem
with the Food at Hiram's?
-------------- THE MARK... --------------
The Mark
of an Intelligent Man
is his Knowing
Freemasonic Light's Restrictions
and Masonic Light's Freedoms.
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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