Thursday, July 7, 2022

Random Building Thoughts - 2022-07-07

 

-------------- COMPLETE IT! --------------  
 

  (Hat tip to Bro. Michael R. Poll for his inspiration!)
 

-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  


Masonic Progression:
-- > The Self 
--> The Universe 
--> The Word

-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  
 

When you bring forth your field of dreams, 
play upon it 
and enjoy what you have Built, 
the like-minded, like-hearted and like-spirited 
shall likewise want the same for themselves. 
 
If you Build it, 
they will come! 
 
-------------- THE MASTER'S WORD! --------------  
 
 
My Masonic Travel started with 
the Discovery of the Master's Word. 
Everything before that event was 
mere Travel Preparation 
coupled with coming to Understand fully 
that it can't be given me. 
 
 But when I finally asked the question
 that I should have asked in the beginning,
it became clear what it was 
and my pursuit for it 
has taken an entirely different road.

FOR FURTHER LIGHT:
 

-------------- KINDLING -------------- 
 
The Major Trouble with Modern Freemasonic Lectures is that far too many experience them, believe they present a complete education and condemn those they guide to a wall filled with chained followers.
 
A Major Problem with Modern Freemasonic Lectures is that too many Brothers who listen to them don't understand that these Lectures were Fabricated years ago and were never Intended to be the be-all and end-all of one's Education. The Lectures are merely a Narrowly Confined and Highly Structured handful of Allusions pointing toward Further Light. The Lectures were not the Light itself. They were Provided as Kindling to those who paid to go through three specific Initiations. And just as Kindling, the Lectures are Absolutely Useless without more Significant Materials being added. 
 
The Major Challenge presented to Freemasons by Modern Freemasonic Lectures is seeing beyond the superficial offering and into the core intention of such offerings. To the cave dwellers chained upon the walls of ignorance, an opportunity to see beyond the shadows. To the aspirant, they are bread crumb trails for further exploration to travel within the network of masters’ words, written into the libraries of history. To the well-schooled, they present mental hyperlinks to many classics studied, abundant discourses upon which these classics catalyzed and reassurance of one’s efforts to lay strong foundations of learning. 
 
-------------- BLUE PRINT --------------   
 

Piety is the Basis for All Theological Virtues...
Keep this in mind when you Interview any Candidates!

 
-------------- WORK WITH ALL --------------  
 

You're not in Competition 
with your Past Self 
when you Work with all of you 
to Build a Better Tomorrow.
 
  -------------- TEACH LOVE OF READING -------------- 
 
 
-------------- INTRODUCTION ONLY! --------------  


Freemasonic Ritual 
(and all related Training) 
is only an Introduction to Masonry. 
It is not Masonry itself.
 
Masons get it; 
Freemasons may not.
 
-------------- GENTLE REMINDERS --------------  


"At any given moment you have the power to say: 
This is not how the story is going to end."
-- Christine Mason Miller.

 
 "Here is the test
to find whether your mission 
on Earth is finished:
 if you're alive, it isn't."
-- Richard Bach

 
-------------- BEYOND WORDS -------------- 
 

Don't tell me
 that you have any ineffable Word; 
you are not believable. 
Tell me that it has you 
and I might believe you 
unless you make an effable effort. 
 
ef·fa·ble -- Adjective
 
1. Capable of being described, uttered or expressed in or as words
in·ef·fa·ble -- Adjective
1.Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.
2. incapable of being described, uttered or expressed in or as words.
3. Too sacred or too taboo to be uttered. 
 
(Synonyms.: unspeakable - inexpressible - unutterable - nameless )
 
-------------- CHARACTER --------------  
 
 
 
The only thing worse than an officious officer 
who doesn't know his stuff 
 is an ignominiously overconfident newbie 
who steps up to play gatekeeper 
on everything that should 
& shouldn't be talked about 
in an open group.
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
 
“It’s characteristic of democracy 
that majority rule is understood 
as being effective not only in politics 
but also in thinking. 
 In thinking, 
of course, 
the majority is always wrong.”
-- Joseph Campbell, 
The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers)

 
-------------- MUSIC -------------- 
 

The zanphone is a rare medieval string instrument that sounds from the rub of a resinated wheel that spins by action of a crank and whose sound is modulated through a keyboard that gives a chromatic scale of two-octaves extension. It has three main strings that carry the melody, and two or more companions that give a simultaneous sound; one severe and fixed at octave interval, and one acute at the interval of fifth.
 
According to studies by some musicologists, the zanphone is of European origin, placing its first appearances in the late 10th or early 11th century, where it was known as Organistrum. 
 
At first it was used to accompany monastic chants but in the 13th centuries to 17th century it was replaced by the organ, thus giving the opportunity for this instrument to pass into popular recreation.
 
Musician: Andrey Vinogradov.

 
-------------- HUNGER --------------  
 
 
A man hungry for Light 
shall not let any lack of mentoring 
stop him from obtaining his heart's desire. 
 
He shan't find it within Temples filled Rubbish however
 for there is nothing but darkness in these realms.
 
 Look though he shall,
 and as he does he will find it,
 for such hunger fuels perceivably impossible quests 
and likened Fellow Travelers 
shall cross his path without fail. 
 
 Such sojourning souls are Hecatombs made.
 
 
-------------- TRAVEL --------------  
 
 
Masonic Travel 
starts with the Discovery of the Master's Word. 
Everything before that event 
is mere Travel Preparation 
coupled with coming to Understand fully 
that it can't be given you.
 
-------------- LIGHT! --------------  
 

In case you have not heard it before...
 
-------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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