Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

-------------- WHY LODGES FAIL --------------

There should be no small wonder why

Foreign Travel, Masterful Work,

& Masterful Earnings

never occurs for their members!

And before you object, the Temple

IS NOT that Spiritual Building

and there can be no latter

without the former!

For Further Light:

The Work!

-------------- THE DOOR --------------

The Door Shall Never Appear
Should You Never Do The Work!

Do the Work, See the Door!

-------------- MESSENGERS --------------

Ruffians

assassinate messengers

of unwanted messages.

-------------- DECIDE WISELY! --------------

"First thing to decide is,

are the Dues simply for
maintaining a building

that you call a Lodge,

or are they for
maintaining a group of Brethren,

called a Lodge."
-- Bro. Peter Taylor

-------------- CHARACTER --------------

FILED UNDER:

When you really want it...

The Organization is Designed to Introduce men to what they can do to Improve themselves. Once Initiated into that System, it is up to each man to Step Up to Do the Work. If he so Desires the Improvement he Professes, he Shall and Will do the Work.

If he is only giving lip service to a Professed Ideal, you shall see no Work commenced. The Work has been, is, and shall always be Self-directed and Self-initiated.

The Organization is there to assist in that effort, but not all men within It can provide the assistance needed, especially to individuals who make every Effort to go far beyond accepted and well-entrenched norms.

Fortunately, when a man wants more, he shall find a way of Obtaining it. When he doesn't want more, he shall get that too. The Work shall always be there for those who want its Benefits.

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

"What has always been basic to resurrection,

or Easter, is crucifixion.

If you want to resurrect,

you must have crucifixion.

Too many interpretations of the Crucifixion

have failed to emphasize that.

They emphasize the calamity of the event.

And if you emphasize calamity, then you look for someone to blame. That is why people have blamed the Jews for it.

"But it is not calamity if it leads to new life."

-- Joseph Campbell,

Thou Art That:

Transforming Religious Metaphor

-------------- PURPOSE --------------

When you find yourself up to your elbows in work and you want much much more, you've found your path and purpose.

"Ikigai (生き甲斐, pronounced [ikiɡai]) is a Japanese concept meaning "a reason for being". Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self."

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