Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-01-31

 

-------------- EASY DOES IT! --------------  
 
 
Mastery...
If It Were Easy,
Everyone Would Wear
A Master's Title.
 
 -------------- MASONIC EDUCATION -------------- 
  

For Further Light:
 
 
 -------------- THE INSANITY -------------- 
 
 
 
The Insanity of Expecting Mastery
from an Experience
is only Overshadowed
by calling Someone "Master"
who has Yet to Build
a Masterpiece.
 
For Further Light:
The Masters!

-------------- FUNDAMENTALITY --------------
 

Ruffians are, by their very nature, Fundamentalists.
They truly believe a Word exists that,
if possessed by them,
can be spoken or written to enable them
to Travel, Work, Earn, Support and Contribute Masterfully.
They don't Understand Metaphor!
Hence they pursue what they don't understand
with great zeal and destruction.
 
 -------------- UNTHINKABLE --------------

 To admit that there could exist
a distinction between Masonry and Freemasonry
is to open the door to self-reflection,
and self examination.
For some men that is an unthinkable act
to be avoided at all costs. 
 
 For Further Light:
Distinction
 
-------------- FOOTPRINTS! -------------- 
 
 
 Far too many People 
are Too Enamored by Footprints 
to Ever Seek what Drove the Men 
who Made them.
 
-------------- TRADITION! -------------- 
 
 
You'd think as Important as
Freemasonic Tradition is supposed to be,
that Entrance into the Fraternity
would be around 14 years of age,
Passing would not occur until
7 solid years of Apprenticeship was Actually Served
and that Proficiency Actually Demonstrated
Something Significant.
 
-------------- PROPER PREPARATION --------------
 
 
The Reason a Mason Divests himself
of all unnecessarily excessive Burdens
is to Properly Prepare himself
to be Burdened with
the Role of "Master".
 
 -------------- TRAVEL PREP --------------
 
 
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.
 
  -------------- W:. S:. B:. --------------
 
 
That was:
Wisdom, Strength & Beauty!

Not:
Knowledge, Power & Glitter!
 
For Further Light:
Getting that Word!
 
-------------- THE MASTER --------------
 

Masters have Mastered
Learning and Teaching;
Apprentices are still
Laying those Foundations.
 
-------------- MASTERY --------------  
 

Mastery is not the end of education;
it is only its beginning!
 
 For Further Light:
The Craft Mastered!


-------------- THE WORD --------------  
 
 
To what have you
given your life? 
 
-------------- END --------------   

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

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Monday, January 30, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-01-30

 

-------------- FIND MEANING! --------------
 

PSA for all you Post-Modernists
 
The problem with Nihilism is that it doesn't mean anything. 
 
And the fact that it doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean anything - unless you invest great meaning in meaninglessness
 
Moreover, if you do dare make such a meaningless investment, you have given it meaning thus nullifying its very foundational claim. 
 
Furthermore, your embracing and supporting it becomes a foolish act since the very core of its belief claims that you do not exist to embrace and support it, much less think about it.
 
Life only becomes meaningless for you when that is the meaning you assign to it.
 
It's a cowardly act that selfishly proclaims that nothing you think, say or do matters and it requires you to deny your responsibility for both finding meaning and investing your total life force toward meaninglessness to assure that meaninglessness is honored in every breath you take. 
 
Conversely, to believe and then claim that your life matters demands you make it matter no matter what you encounter that indicates otherwise.
 
When you do, you'll live a life worth living; even if it's just for you.

Referenced: 
 
Nihilism
1) the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
In Philosophy
2) extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
 
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------
 
 
-------------- THINK! --------------

Knowledge is not Wisdom; it's "inventory."
Imagine a world where minds were 
disciplined well-enough to think wisely.
 This was the intent behind raising adults.
 
-------------- PLOW! --------------
 
 
-------------- MAKE THE EFFORT! --------------
 
 
(Hat tip to Bro. Daniel J Lewis!)
 
-------------- INTEGRITY BASICS --------------
 
 
When you don't Act 
Like the Person you Want to Become, 
you'll Never Be Who you Want to Be.
 
 -------------- BEYOND THE GRASP -------------- 
 
 
MASONRY: 
Ritefully Remaining Far Beyond the Grasp
 Of Even The Well-Informed. 
 
-------------- SEVEN YEARS --------------
 
 
Our Lore Tells Us
 It Takes Seven Completed Years
 for a Student to Become 
Properly Prepared! 
Why Then is This Not 
Our Solemn Practice?
 
For Further Light:
Preparation
 
-------------- THE MASSES --------------
 
"A considerable percentage 
of the people we meet on the street 
are people who are empty inside, 
that is, they are actually already dead. 
It is fortunate for us 
that we do not see and do not know it. 
If we knew what a number of people are actually dead 
and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, 
we should go mad with horror."
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Art: Vania Zouravliov
 
 -------------- IMMATURE HEARTS --------------
 
 
It was not their skills or brains 
that made the Ruffians' Ashlars Rough.
 It was their HEARTS. 
They didn't do the EA Work. 
Hence, they did the FC Work 
on an Improperly and Ill-Prepared Foundation. 
That is also what Made them so Dangerous. 
Empowered Brains Governed by Immature Hearts 
are a Recipe for Civil Disharmony at Best.
 
For Further Light:
Prepared

 
-------------- GOLDEN RULE -------------- 
 
 
 
-------------- SANITY -------------- 

 
 How sane is it to label something "secret"
if everyone knows about it? 
 
 For Further Light:
Secret Society
 
-------------- TEACH IT! -------------- 

 
AMEN!
 (Hat tip to Bro. J Keith Henry!)
 
 -------------- INSPIRE! -------------- 
 
 
 
-------------- SECRET -------------- 

 
I: Is it true that Freemasonry is a secret society?
R: That's an interesting question. How did you hear about them?
 
For Further Light:
Secrets

-------------- REVIEW -------------- 

 
Thanks again Bro. Scott Hall!!
This is why I am still very careful when I do talks on this book.
 
-------------- END --------------  

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

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