-------------- SEEK... --------------
"Seek,
and ye shall find, knowledge and the truth.
The practical object of
Masonry
is the physical and moral amelioration
and the intellectual and
spiritual improvement
of individuals and society.
Neither can be
effected,
except by the dissemination of truth.
It is falsehood in
doctrines
and fallacy in principles,
to which most of the miseries of
men
and the misfortunes of nations are owing”
-- Albert Pike (M&D, p. 218).
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------
-------------- COMMENSURATE --------------
All
things being equal, if you're looking for entitlement, there's no
better way to produce entitled Freemasons than demanding members parrot
without understanding and advancing them without proof that they're
fully capable of applying the very things that each degree demands.
However,
if you're looking to produce Masons, you must insist that each Brother
who desires to Progress through the Degrees has completed the Work that
each Degree points him toward, not just memorizing a script.
This one requirement will clearly identify and separate...
1)
those who are not truly proficient in any one degree before progressing
and who have advanced because they have memorized a script,
from
2) those who recognize, understand and are proficient in what each degree demands of them.
If
you want to know which one is more important to the organization you
belong to, examine how your members are advanced and provided titles and
ask yourself this one question:
Are the titles bestowed commensurate with what they are supposed to exemplify?
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
I
have a simple policy:
don't tell me anything that you know
would get me in trouble
would get me in trouble
if I didn't share the information with the proper authority
and share only those things
that I would have only good conscience
keeping in my chest.
How did I get this?
Those 12 remaining FC were
Ruffians too,
even though they did come clean in the end.
For Further Light:
15 Ruffians...
-------------- BE TRUE --------------
The Work of the Apprentice...
-------------- MYTH --------------
“Out of perfection nothing can be made.
Every process involves breaking something up.
The earth must be broken to bring forth life.
If the seed does not die, there is no plant.
Bread results from the death of wheat.
Life lives on lives.
Our own life lives on the acts of other people.
If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.”
-- Joseph Campbell,
Every process involves breaking something up.
The earth must be broken to bring forth life.
If the seed does not die, there is no plant.
Bread results from the death of wheat.
Life lives on lives.
Our own life lives on the acts of other people.
If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.”
-- Joseph Campbell,
“A Joseph Campbell Companion:
Reflections on the Art of Living. p. 19
-------------- WHAT DID YOU GET? --------------
Some only get Membership,
Others get Real!
-------------- PREPARATION --------------
What to look for in Mature adults
who are prepared to take upon themselves serious study.
There Exist Revealed Secrets
that will Never be Understood
by the Inexperienced.
Don't be blinded by your inexperience!
-------------- GREAT MEMORIES! --------------
Grand
Lodge of Minnesota Awards Banquet
to receive the 2014 Duane E. Anderson
Excellence in Masonic Education Award (National Level)
Which Specific Activities
Do You Engage In Daily
That Celebrate Your Life?
-------------- ASTRONOMY --------------
Do you know what it is?
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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