Friday, February 17, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-02-17


  -------------- HOW? -------------- 
 
 
Who are the Masonic examples
in your life?
 
How do they exemplify 
The Master's Word?
 
How Do You Exemplify 
Those You Would Follow?
 
 Please! Do tell!
 
 -------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------  
 
 
-------------- WHOA! -------------- 
 

"Religion" and "Religious" 
are two different creatures 
and should not be Confused. 
Freemasonry is not a Religion; 
it is Religious organization. 
There is but one Religious requirement
 for joining Mainstream Freemasonry. 
That Religious requirement 
is a "Belief in God".
 
 Woe to those who confuses the two...
 
For Further Light:
CHALLENGE!
 
 -------------- SQUARES -------------- 
 
 On the Square:  
 
Just as the Points of the Compasses Represent 
the Work Goals of the 1st and 2nd Degree 
– the Cultivation of the Heart and the Head respectively – 
by Extension, 
the Left and Right Legs of the Square 
Represent the Work actually Done
to Cultivate one’s Heart and Head respectively. 
 
When you have not yet done
this Cultivation Work upon yourself, 
but earnestly want to, 
you can get a Leg up on It 
by examining to what Ritual alludes. 
 
Better yet, 
make it a Point to do the Work 
that Transforms each side of you 
from an Oblong Square to a Perfect Square.  

 -------------- MYTH -------------- 
 
"Mythology is an organization
of symbolic images and narratives
metaphorical of the possibilities and fulfillment
in a given culture at a given time.
Mythology is a metaphor.
God, angels, purgatory,
these are metaphors."

-- Joseph Campbell,
 interviewed in the New York Times,
February 1985
 
Yes! The map is not the territory 
and everything placed upon the map 
are mere references. 
And when you don't understand "metaphors",
 you are bound to and bound by the imagined references
 upon these maps as if these metaphors 
actually exist as the symbols they represent!
 
 -------------- YOUR WORK -------------- 
 

(Hat tip to Bro. Jason Eddy!)
 
-------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE -------------- 

A Few Brothers Ask these Questions: 
  1. On which side of the candidate
    is the SD supposed to be
    while conducting candidates around the Altar? 
  2. Why is this? 
  3. And how is all this justified
    if no one is supposed to get between the WM
    and the Altar during open lodge?
You approach your WM for answers to thee questions that are backed by Masonic teachings.  The WM believes this to be an excellent learning opportunity for both the Candidates and you.  
 
He gives you the following tasks to complete and asks you to do so within 24 hours. 
 
You agree to abide by his request.
 
YOUR TASK:
 
1) Write out responds to the Brothers questions providing rational and logical reasons to back them up.
2) Anticipate any objections and handle them as well.
3) Come up with series of Q&As that lead Candidates to the answer for themselves.
 
 How do you go about your tasks
and rise to the challenge before you?

 -------------- STATE OF THE TEMPLE -------------- 
 
 
There is Currently 
so much Rubbish in the Temple 
That Hiram Abiff himself 
could not dig himself Out, 
should he have to rely upon
 the Directions of those Misguided Brothers 
who came after him.
  
  -------------- SEE! -------------- 
 
 
Masonry teaches us
that there must always be 
some aspect of truly responsive thought 
behind your work 
or you'll always get what you've always gotten. 
Some are consciously blind
 to this Lesson.
 
-------------- COMPELLED  -------------- 
 

<snicker> There are some who
are so Compelled to Help others,
 they can't Help themselves.
 
 -------------- SHUN -------------- 
 
 
Men Can Be 
Surrounded By Light 
and Still Shun It.
 
 -------------- BE GOOD MEN... -------------- 


 -------------- END --------------   

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

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