-------------- UNDERSTAND? -------------- 
"If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief
have been excluded from this Degree
[18° Knight Rose Croix],
it merely shows how gravely the purposes
and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood.
For whenever the door of any Degree
is closed against him who believes in one God
and the soul's immortality,
on account of the other tenets of his faith,
that Degree is Masonry no longer."
-- Albert Pike
-- Albert Pike
-------------- FOR LITERAL BROTHERS... --------------
"Freemasonry
is confessedly an allegory,
and as an allegory only must it be
supported,
for its traditional history admits of no palliation.
Whoever
would remove Freemasonry out of the category,
as an allegorical
institution,
might as well destroy its existence;
for in no other
character would it be able to hold its own.
It is one consistent and
intelligible assemblage of symbols,
and any attempt to explain it,
by reference to facts, is sure to fail:
instead of a clear, beautiful, and harmonious
system connected in all its parts,
a distorted caricature will be produced
without a single redeeming trait of character."
– Bro. George Oliver
COACH'S NOTE: To Study Freemasonry is to Study Allegory!!!!!
-------------- DEFINE --------------
palliation (noun)
- A cloaking or concealment; a means of hiding or concealing.
- The act of palliating or concealing the more flagrant circumstances of an offense, crime, etc.; a lessening or toning down of the enormity or gravity of a fault, offense, etc., by the urging of extenuating circumstances, or by favorable representations; extenuation.
- Mitigation or alleviation, as of a disease.
-------------- ROOTS --------------
Enthusiasm = Charcoal, Clay
c.1600,
from M.Fr. enthousiasme (16c.) and directly from L.L. enthusiasmus,
from Gk. enthousiasmos "divine inspiration," from enthousiazein "be
inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy," from entheos
"divinely inspired, possessed by a god," from en "in" + theos "god" (see
Thea).
Acquired
a derogatory sense of "excessive religious emotion" (1650s) under the
Puritans; generalized sense of "fervor, zeal" (the main modern sense) is
first recorded 1716.
Masons know why!
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
"It
is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong
man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without
error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who
knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a
worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails,
at least fails while
daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt
-------------- MYTH --------------
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
A goal is
what specifically you intend to make happen.
Dreams and goals should be
just out of your present reach
but not out of sight.
"Dreams and goals
are coming attractions in your life."
- Joseph Campbell
The Work that each Degree
points toward takes a lifetime!
-------------- TRUE FC PROFICIENCY --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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