FILED UNDER: Dropping the Gavel

 

 

FILED UNDER: 

Dropping the Gavel

 

Upon close examination, it's clear that, for many Brothers, Lodge functions, customs and protocols have unfortunately taken precedent over understanding the very Light they were put together to convey.

 

As a result, these organizational members focus upon the minutia of Serving the Machine rather than Producing the very Product the machine was intended to produce.

We already know what has destroyed the intended Freemasonic experience for many. 

 

And knowing this, members still continue to show up to produce new members who will eventually walk away when they realize all-too-soon that the path they were put upon  

 

was to become a replacement part 

 

 for and within the machine rather than 

 

the enlightened individuals who were bettered by a process 

 

that is so well-hidden from view that hardly anyone knows about it.

 

And if it aggravates you to no-end to hear the words,

 

 "We already know what has destroyed 

the intended Freemasonic experience for many," 

 

 then you actually do realize the spirit has already left these bodies; these bodies simply have not realized they are already dead, or worse, they refuse to acknowledge this fact.

 

Ask yourself the following question:  

 

Would you rather sit down with knowledgeable Brothers...

• who focus you upon learning about the Light that ritual points toward
• who direct you in how to pursue and understand this Light
  
• who have demonstrated for you through how they live how this Light can transform your life too, 

...than sit in lodge rooms or dinning halls, night after night, hearing members complain and moan about what's destroying our Craft machine?

 

I opt for the former, every time!

If you want to resurrect what was truly intended, you must be willing to breathe life back into these lodges in do so in such a way as to have them become what was intended: 

 

LIVING STONES!  

 

...and not the dead ruins that they have become for far too many.

 

How do you do this?

1. Travel the PATH that ritual has laid out before you. 
2. Become the man that such ritual directs you to be. 
3. Do not exist to maintain any machine that serves no purpose other than to replace its own parts. 
4. Live the path; don't just sell the path's maps without traveling them yourself.

Why do I service this machine? 

 

Because I live in the hope that my participation DOES help bring about a much needed resurrection to them some day. 

 

In the meantime, through my participation I continue to help those disenchanted members who seek or see the true path and to help them travel it, one step at a time.

 

-- Coach John S Nagy