-------------- HUMOR --------------
For Further Light:
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
You can inspire others
by being a successful role model
for what they might
have consider
improbable for themselves
until they met you.
Let them
know it's possible!
Show them how it's done!
LEAD!
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
It is only after this Generation Steps Up
and Leads by Proper Cultivated
Example
that Future Generations shall be Led
by Those who are Properly
Cultivated!
-------------- ALLEGORY--------------
The Canvas You Paint
is Your Own,
Make It Masterful!
Display it proudly!
-------------- LABORS -------------- 
There are times 
-------------- WORKING TOOL! -------------- 
May All Your Labors
Be Conceived in Love,
Committed in Hope,
and Delivered in Faith.
-------------- TOO NICE --------------
There are times
when too high a price is asked
for being nice
to those who
have
no interest in niceness
other than to take advantage
of those who
offer it
in kindness, respect and civility
and at the offerer's detriment.
-------------- PROGRESSION... --------------
Sadly,
Progression Occurs So Swiftly these days
that Entered Apprentices never
Apprentice,
Fellow Crafts Don't Climb Stairs
and Masters are so Inept
that Others must Raise them.
|O| The Flanked Circumpunct:
The most underused
misunderstood Working Tool
that was ever hung upon
a Mason's wall.
-------------- TRACK RECORD! --------------
The
Next Time Anyone Asks to Join,
Please Assure that they have
a Track
Record of Improvement.
Always Expect that you'll get
More of the Same.
-------------- LOOKS WILL BETRAY YOU --------------
When you don't know
the differences between
a "Free Mason"
and a "Freemason",
you're likely the Latter.
For Further Light:
-------------- APPRENTICE! --------------
An Entered Apprentice
has yet to Serve
an Apprenticeship.
An Apprentice
is someone doing
Apprentice Work!
Know the Difference!
Be The Difference!
"Creative artists ...
are mankind's wakeners to recollection:
summoners of our outward mind
to conscious contact with ourselves,
not as participants in this
or that morsel of history,
but as spirit, in the consciousness of being.
Their task, therefore,
is to communicate directly
from one inward world to another,
in such a way that an actual shock of experience
will have been rendered:
not a mere statement for the information
or persuasion of a brain,
but an effective communication
across the void of space and time
from one center of consciousness
to another."
-- Joseph Campbell,
"The Masks of God, Volume IV:
Creative Mythology"
-------------- FRAUD! --------------
You can't Honestly wear
a Master's Title
and Claim Rightfully to be
an Entered Apprentice forever
without Portraying Fraud.
For Further Light:
-------------- WORSHIPING... --------------
"A person will worship something,
have no doubt about that.
We may think our tribute
is paid in secret
in the dark recesses of our hearts,
but it will out.
That which dominates
our imaginations
and our thoughts
will determine our lives,
and our character.
Therefore, it behooves us to be careful
what we worship,
for what we are worshiping
we are becoming."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
-------------- EXPLORE... --------------
Masonry empowers men
to explore their Faith;
It arms them with
Travel Support
they could not find
elsewhere.
-------------- UNDERSTAND... --------------
Masonry
doesn't provide men with Faith;
it provides them with the means
to
better understand their chosen Faith
and more deeply.
-------------- CHANGE... --------------
“You
never change things
by fighting the existing reality.
To change
something,
build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
-------------- SHINE! --------------
I'm shining as bright as I can...
How about you?
-------------- DIRECTIONS! --------------
The Great Success of Freemasonry
is Providing Directions
that any man can Follow.
Book Fiber
is Extremely Good
for Healthy Mental Digestion.
(and great Regularity as well!)
It does a Temple Good!
For Further Light:
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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