Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-03-15

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Their Skills or Minds
don't make Ruffians Rough Ashlars;
their Hearts do.
They don't Complete the EA Work.
Hence, they do FC Work on Improperly
and Ill-Prepared Foundations.
This is what makes them so dangerous.
Empowered Minds Governed by Immature Hearts
bring fourth Civil Disharmony,
Death and Buried Beauty.

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From Corona Lodge No. 666...
(Hat tip to Bro. Bruce W Clark
shared 3 years ago in the very beginning of the crud)

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"Whenever a knight of the Grail
tried to follow a path made by someone else,
he went altogether astray.
Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's footsteps.
Each of us has to find his own way,
and this is what gives our Occidental world
its initiative and creative quality.
Nobody can give you a mythology.
The images that mean something to you,
you'll find in your dreams,
in your visions, in your actions
— and you'll find out what they are
after you've passed them."

--Joseph Campbell

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FILED UNDER:

WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW YOU KNOW!

Ides - (in the ancient Roman calendar)
a day falling roughly in the middle of each month
(the 15th day of March, May, July, and October,
and the 13th of other months),
from which other dates were calculated.

And here's some of... the rest of the story...

And here's some of... the rest of the story...

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No matter what you Seek,
and no matter what you Find,
if it does not Sustain you
or Transform You
and your Behavior for the Better,
what true Value was your Quest?

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FILED UNDER:
DISCOURSE WORTH HAVING!

Do you want to help the next generation of Masons to develop into Better men? Engage them in Q&A discourse related to what Ritual directs them toward, premised upon asking a simple question:

What Work must be done to make a good man a Better man, and what occurs for a man who leaves such improvement Work undone?

Here are some lead in questions based on Working Tools and Lodge Furniture:

1) CG - What is Divesting? How is it done?

2) CG - What are Vs&Ss? How are they similar and different?

3) TFIG - What is the foundation of Time Management? Where do you start?

4) TFIG - What must be done to manage time wisely? What tools must you use?

5) J'sL - What are the Cardinal and Theological Virtues? What plan must be executed to develop them within your life?

6) VoSL - What most important to you? What must you do to honor it?

7) Cs - What is Circumscription? How does one go about Circumscribing?

8) Cs - What are the similarities and difference between Passions and Desires?

9) Cs - What does Subdue mean? How do you benefit from it? What are some examples if subduing?

10) VoSL - What does it mean to be true to one's Word? How do you know when your word is not true?

...and so forth.

The Q&A could go on for months and years. The quality of the discourse and the men engaging in it would certainly improve over time, if they do the Work!

Good Luck and Travel Light!

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