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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Random Building Thoughts - 2021-12-04

-------------- SOME LIGHT --------------

Some Light
that Masquerades
as Masonic Education
is Actually

Strictly Enforced Freemasonic Training
which Requires
No Further Thought
than to Do
What One is Told.

What education
are you engaged in?

-------------- HUMOR --------------

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2015/12/andersons-error-remains.html

-------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE --------------

Many within the Craft
have heard the term "Irreligious Libertine"
and they seem to know immediately
what that implies.

But, when faced with a change in direction,
they are confronted with something
that challenges their preconceived notions
as to possibilities.

Such is what is presented by changing
the word "Irreligious" to "religious" in the term.

YOUR CHALLENGE (should you agree to accept it):

Explain separately
what "IRRELIGIOUS LIBERTINE"
and "RELIGIOUS LIBERTINE" mean
to you while making every earnest and sincere effort
to keep sex out of your explanation!

Let the discourse begin!

-------------- PERFECTING --------------

To do the Initial Masonic Work,
one must first Work upon one's Heart
and then one's Head,
in this Order.

For this purpose,
the Working Tools of the first Degree
are assumed to be two in the American Rite.

Each requires specific Actions
to take place to Perfect (Mature) the Ashlar
before its Raising.

Establishment of Virtues, Circumscription
and Subduing of Passions and Desires,
Divestment of Vices & Superfluities,
and Establishment of Time Management,
are among the many Activities Designed
and Intended to Perfect the Ashlar
and ready it for Raising (Second Degree Work).

In addition to these Perfecting activities,
the Fellow Craft Working Tools
are Developed during the First Degree Work.

Sure,
one may eventually possess them,
but one shall not know how to use
the Second Degree Working Tools
unless one Develops them through
the Work of the First Degree.

-------------- FAKES --------------

We Look for Fakes
Outside the Craft,
and too often don't see
those Within it.

-------------- EGO --------------

“How to get rid of ego as dictator
and turn it into
messenger and servant and scout,
to be in your service,
is the trick.”

― Joseph Campbell

I'm with Joe on this.

Ego is the mediator between
the ID and the Super Ego.
It has purpose
and one would be foolish to rid oneself of it.

Can you imagine a world ruled
by IDs and Super Egos?

But wait!
Are we not there already?

Perhaps maturing the Egos of the world
should be our collective new direction.

For Further Light:
Ego Autonomy

-------------- DIFFERENCE --------------

You are the Difference the Universe Put Forth.
What are you Making of Its Creation?

-------------- END-IN-MIND --------------

In the end,
Mastery is about Personal Excellence
that no other man can Bestow upon you
other than Yourself.

For Further Light:
Mastery

-------------- TEMPERANCE --------------

Temperance

1. restraint or moderation,
esp in yielding to one's appetites or desires

2. the trait of avoiding excesses

3. abstaining from excess

4. act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite

5. (scholasticism) one of the four virtues derived from nature

6. discipline in personal and social activities

7. moderation in or abstinence from mood altering

8. moderation in eating and drinking

9. the act of combining things to form a new whole

[synonyms] moderation, restraint, self-control, self-discipline,
continence, self-restraint, forbearance, moderation, sobriety,
abstinence, natural virtue, restraint, control,
dryness, sobriety, abstemiousness,
compounding, combining, combination

intemperance - the quality of being intemperate;
excess, intemperance, overindulgence,
prodigality, immoderation

-------------- WARNINGS --------------