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Sometimes the only Working Tool
that is Instrumental
in Enlightening
some Brothers
is the well-known
but often overlooked
"Cosmic
Two-By-Four".
When Properly Applied,
It's Guaranteed to Smart.
-------------- HUMOR --------------
I: Who was the first MASON?
R: Giovanni Masonni,
an Italian guy from way back when
who used to crack rocks
for entertainment purposes.
He had so much fun
that others wanted to join in
on the fun with Masonni.
His rock cracking followers
have been referred to
as "Masons" ever since.
-------------- MASONIC SCHOLARSHIP --------------
The Motivation to Better oneself
is driven from within,
and it comes from without.
A man must Desire Better
with all his Heart
and Invest in getting Better
with all his Might
for Better to have any Value to him
whatsoever.
When Better is provided to him,
without much Work on his part,
he shall not get out of Better
what he would have or could have
had he Truly Worked for Better
himself.
Masonry Protects its Mysteries.
What It Demands from men
naturally filters
the serious and committed
from those who are not.
For any man to have
Masonry's Advantages
He must truly Become
Better.
Not merely Appear
Better.
PSA for the Day:
What should be learned from a bunch of recovering drunks?
...Freemasonic based organizations present a unified front...
...that creates for itself members so attractive...
...that
men outside its walls wanting better for themselves see our members as
living examples of what they want so much so that they summon within
each of them a unstoppable passion to obtain and attract as well...
...Lodges will forever struggle with acquisition, retention and attrition of members.
Reference: Twelve Step Eleventh Tradition...
“Our public relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion;
we need always maintain personal anonymity
at the level of press, radio, and films.”
-------------- MYTH --------------
"The
Waste Land, let us say then, is any world in which (to state the
problem pedagogically) force and not love, indoctrination, not
education, authority, not experience, prevail in the ordering of lives,
and where the myths and rites enforced and received are consequently
unrelated to the actual inward realizations, needs, and potentialities
of those upon whom they are impressed."
-- Joseph Campbell,
Creative Mythology
(Vol. IV of The Masks of God), p.388
"The
Indian term 'yoga' is derived from the Sanscrit verbal root 'yuj,' 'to
link, join, or unite,' which is related etymologically to 'yoke,' a yoke
of oxen, and is in sense analogous to the word 'religion' (Latin
're-ligio'), 'to link back, or bind.' Man, the creature, is by religion
bound back to God. However, religion, 'religio,' refers to a linking
historically conditioned by way of a covenant, sacrament, or Quran,
whereas yoga is the psychological linking of the mind to that
superordinated principle 'by which the mind knows.' Furthermore, in yoga
what is linked is finally the self to itself, consciousness to
consciousness; for what had seemed, through māyā, to be two are in
reality not so; whereas in religion what are linked are God and man,
which are not the same.”
-- Joseph Campbell,
The Masks of God, Vol. II: Oriental Mythology
Nowhere
have I seen this reality expressed more than through Brothers who have
been indoctrinated, not enlightened,
by the assembly line process
implemented by "The Blue Lodge" systems
that exist in far too many
jurisdictions throughout the world.
Those Brothers who escape
these systems and who have exited into the light
still have a difficult
time dealing with the masses still chained to their cave walls.
-------------- THE GRIND --------------
Don't Let
the Illegitimacies of Life
Grind You Down.
-------------- THE CHANGE WANTED --------------
You
Are The Change
that God Wanted
for His World.
How are those changes going?
-------------- IMPACT! --------------
When
you want to Assess Education's Impact,
Examine the Behavior before
and
after its Provision.
When nothing Changed
toward what the Provision was
to Change,
then what was Provided was Ineffective.
Make Sure you Know
your End-In-Mind!
...and plan your lessons
so that the produce predictable results!
-------------- THE ONLY BATTLE --------------
(Hat tip to Bro. David Moran!)
-------------- MORE HUMOR --------------
-------------- REVIEWS! --------------
"The meat of the book is the unmasking of the Craft and the
discovery of its true origins... There is also Nagy’s critique of how
the Craft could be better than it already is while paying due homage to
its greatness at the same time. These are the points you don’t want to
miss and that will provide hours of contemplation and discussion.
...There is no doubt that what Nagy, affectionately referred to as the
Coach, has written [is] a book of much controversy. It will burst the bubble of many a Masonic scholar and researcher, and the Coach knows this.
And I think he is ready for the flak that will come his way, as they
used to say in Vietnam “INCOMING!” It does not seem to be in his nature
to be confrontational, however, but rather to be an educator and he goes
where his research has taken him. ...It is so important that we
understand our roots and where that leads us, where we began and where
we are now going. ...But the Coach wants to put this all out for
discussion not controversy. It is only through the meeting of minds that
we shall discover ourselves as Freemasons and who we really are and
where we are going. It is only through greater understanding of where we
have been that we can figure where we must go in the future."
-- Bro. Frederic L. Milliken
For a Full In Depth Review Click Here!
THE FELLOW CRAFT DREAM!
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