Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Friday, September 10, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-09-10

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For Further Light:

https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2016/04/dogma.html

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FILED UNDER:

It is not enough to Properly Think;

one must Properly Do!

"Virtue is but heroic bravery,

to do the thing thought to be true,

in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,

in despite of all temptations or menaces.

"Man is accountable for the uprightness of it.

Devout enthusiasm is far easier than a good action.

The end of thought is action;

the sole purpose of Religion is an Ethic.

"Theory,

in political science,

is worthless,

except for the purpose

of being realized in practice"

-- Bro. Albert Pike "Morals & Dogma

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COACH'S CHALLENGE:

Should we take the quote:

"...that religion

in which all men agree..."

...and do so within

its "intended" context,

would the quote not imply

that it is referring to

an actual

in which men do truly agree?

If so,

then describe this religion!

(Hint: Bro. Anderson actually describes it!

Can you spell it out as he did?)

Check last post!

-------------- PROBLEMS --------------

Craft Problems are Personal in Nature.

Change the Person for the Better

and so Follows the Craft.

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FILED UNDER:

It is not enough to Properly Think;

one must Properly Do!

"The great end is not knowledge,

but action."
-Thomas Huxley

-------------- EVIDENCE --------------

Faith is not evidential.

Once evidence exists,

faith ceases to be faith.

-------------- MORE OF THE SAME --------------

Candidates Who are Unmotivated,

Highly Complacent

and Meritless in Life

are Likely be the Same as Members.

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It's not enough to give lip service

to the checkered pavement symbolism

by saying it represents good and evil.

You must go beyond the veil,

reach into that symbolism,

ask yourself how it applies toward your life

and then apply it without waiver.

Waving a checkered flag looks good on the surface,

but carrying what that flag

represents a battle within

where your life depends upon

the actions you take

is a whole different level of activity.

-------------- HISTORY --------------

History is a Tool;

Beneficial in the Hands

of Humane Artisans;

Ruinous in the Hands

of Inhumane Malcontents.

-------------- MYTH --------------

"There are today no horizons,
no mythogenetic zones.
Or rather, the mythogenetic zone
is the individual human heart.
Individualism and spontaneous pluralism
— the free association of men and women of like spirit,
under protection of a secular,
rational state with no pretensions to divinity —
are in the modern world the only honest possibilities:
each the creative center of authority for himself,
in Cusanus's circle without circumference
whose center is everywhere,
and where each is the focus
of God's gaze."
-- Joseph Campbell,
"The Masks of God, Vol. IV: Creative Mythology"

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