-------------- COMPLETE IT! --------------
(Hat tip to Bro. Michael R. Poll for his inspiration!)
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
Masonic Progression:
-- > The Self
-- > 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.
-------------- 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!
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.
-- 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
-- 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,
-- Joseph Campbell,
The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers)
-------------- MUSIC --------------
-------------- 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.
In case you have not heard it before...
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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