Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-08-18

 
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Filed Under: 
Dishonor them at your Peril.

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-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  


Okay, let's review this ONE MORE TIME... Phase One... 
 
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: 
 
1) Subdue & Circumscribe your Passions & Desires;
2) Get your Time Management in Order;
3) Divest yourself of Vices & Superfluities;
4) Invest yourself with Virtues;
5) Align your professed Moral Integrity with your actions
 
All this BEFORE 
you start CLIMBING ANYTHING!
 
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-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  
 
 
 
Insight
 is not supported by any physical sense. 
You can only "see into things" 
when you exercise your ability 
to go beyond 
the apparent illusion before you. 
 
 -------------- PREPARED? --------------  
 
 
Don't complain
 when you haven't prepared 
for the opportunities the Lord provides you 
and you think things didn't go your way. 
They have gone your way 
and you have yourself 
to thank.
 
-------------- KEEP AWAY --------------   
 
 
(Hat tip to Bro. John Lawson)
 
-------------- EA WORK --------------  
 

 Some Brothers put off 
their Divestiture Work so long 
that when they finally go to do it 
more intensive Working Tools are required.
 
  -------------- REACH! -------------- 
 
 
 If the Fire You Have Within 
Doesn't Reach for Heaven, 
You Might just have Ignited 
Something Ungodly.
 
-------------- THE RIGHT STUFF --------------  


FILED UNDER: 
For those of you who question 
the reason behind our Freeborn requirement...

You can't shove soy through a meatgrinder 
and reasonably expect any
 high quality bull to come out the other end.
 
You MUST begin 
with the right stuff!
 
For Further Light:
   
-------------- DO THE MATH! --------------   


 It Appears as if
1/2 of all Brothers
don't Care about Improving Themselves.
The other 1/2 do Care,
but not Enough to Work Hard at it.
What Remains
are Brothers Who Work Hard
to help all their Brothers do the Math.

-------------- HIDDEN WORLDS -------------- 


Climbing these Stairs involves 
Learning to Recognize, Understand and Utilize Symbols 
as Words & Numbers. 
Do this successfully 
and Hidden Worlds 
become Known to you.
 
-------------- MATH --------------  

FILED UNDER: 
The solution is not so obvious!
 
rx + y = t/x
what is x?
(as in, solve for "x")

 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
"The Indian term yoga is derived from the Sanskrit 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.
 
"It is of course true that in the popular religions of the Orient the gods are worshiped as though external to their devotees, and all the rules and rites of a covenanted relationship are observed. Nevertheless, the ultimate realization, which the sages have celebrated, is that the god worshiped as though without is in reality a reflex of the same mystery as oneself. As long as an illusion of ego remains, the commensurate illusion of a separate deity also will be there; and vice versa, as long as the idea of a separate deity is cherished, an illusion of ego, related to it in love, fear, worship, exile, or atonement, will also be there. But precisely that illusion of duality is the trick of māyā. 'Thou art that' (tat tvam asi) is the proper thought for the first step to wisdom.”
-- Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God, Vol. III: Oriental Mythology, p. 14).
 
Wonderful! As always!
 
-------------- BEAUTY!! --------------  
 
 
 
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(Hat tip to Bro. Mike Moore!"

-------------- REASON! -------------- 
 

The Reason a man Develops his Virtue 
all day long
 is to Be Ready for those critical moments 
when he must Employ them 
without Hesitation.
 
-------------- ARMS!  --------------  
 
 
-------------- BRAIN TEASE --------------   
 

-------------- THEORY 13 --------------  
 
 
 
FILED UNDER: 
The Freemasonic Origin Theory 
that makes sense out of 
why all the other related theories 
don't make sense.
 
...and then, there's [theory] #13 
which sets its sight upon the most obvious 
and yet overwhelmingly unnoticed origin 
that is backed by 
facts, evidence and observable operation, 
not fiction, conjecture and flights of fancy.

THE CRAFT UNMASKED! 
The Uncommon Origin of Freemasonry 
and its Practice.

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-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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