-------------- HUMOR --------------
Longevity in the Craft
is a double edged sword.
You're both blessed and cursed
when you've been enlightened
enough
through experience and hard Work
to recognize immediately
that a Freemasonic theory
has no basis in fact
and is just another fantasy
based upon
wishful thinking.
You're also blessed and cursed
when you've been around long enough
to recognize bogus theories
when you hear them,
but still remain open to hearing someone
espouse a new "Freemasonic theory"
in hope of being delightfully surprised
regardless of your skepticism.
For Further Light:
Research
Research
-------------- LACK -------------- 
-------------- CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! --------------
It
is the nature of men
empowered without constraint
to abuse this
empowerment.
Wisdom demands constraint
and without such,
there lacks
Wisdom.
Wisdom's foundation
is created by
-------------- ROLES --------------
Before
you Decide
what Role you want to Play
within the Society,
do ask
yourself
what Role you want
the Society to Play in your Life.
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
The
Beauty of Freemasonic Ritual
is that it Invites those who hear it
to
explore the true meanings of its Archaic Language
and leads some to
understand it deeply.
The
Ugliness of Freemasonic Ritual
is that some who hear it
wrongfully
assume the words used within it
have modern meanings
and they mislead
themselves
to both misunderstand it
and to do so superficially.
Do you have the understanding
of an apprentice
or a master?
For Further Light:
-------------- MYTH --------------
"The hero adventures out
of the land we know into darkness;
there he accomplishes his adventure,
or again is simply lost to us, imprisoned,
or in danger;
and his return is described as a coming back out
of that yonder zone.
"Nevertheless
"Nevertheless
—and here is a great key
to the understanding of myth and symbol
—the two kingdoms are actually one.
"The realm of the gods
"The realm of the gods
is a forgotten dimension of the world we know.
"And the exploration of that world,
"And the exploration of that world,
either willingly or unwillingly,
is the whole sense of the deed of the hero."
-- Joseph Campbell,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, p. 217
-------------- PILLS... --------------
Take the Blue Pill
and You'll Believe Allegories Are Fact,
Meeting Minutes & Reports Rock,
And Rubber Chickens & Fish-Fries Are Drool-Worthy.
Take the Red Pill
and You'll Travel Far and Wide,
See Things Few Can Begin to Imagine,
and Improve Yourself,
Your Life, Your Family, Your Society
and Your World.
and You'll Believe Allegories Are Fact,
Meeting Minutes & Reports Rock,
And Rubber Chickens & Fish-Fries Are Drool-Worthy.
Take the Red Pill
and You'll Travel Far and Wide,
See Things Few Can Begin to Imagine,
and Improve Yourself,
Your Life, Your Family, Your Society
and Your World.
CHOOSE!
-------------- THE PATH --------------
Ritual Introduces you
to the Path.
It is not the Path Itself.
For Further Light:
All Candidates
Ignorantly Commit to things
they may NEVER understand
when Proper Contextual Light
is not Provided PRIOR to their Commitment.
This Book Provides that Light!
For Further Light:
Ignorantly Commit to things
they may NEVER understand
when Proper Contextual Light
is not Provided PRIOR to their Commitment.
This Book Provides that Light!
For Further Light:
-------------- BELIEVE!!! --------------
-------------- HONORS --------------
FILED UNDER:
An Awesome Gift from My Brothers!
This Thursday evening the Brothers of my home lodge gave me the Musician's Apron that I have been wearing to play music at lodge meetings, degrees, & installations for over a decade. It was retired due to a recent purchase of new officer aprons for the lodge. When I asked what was to become of it, and expressing a desire to continue to use it when I played at other lodges who would invite me to play, but didn't themselves have a Musician's Apron, my Brothers voted to have it donated to me. I shall shall now no longer put it into lodge storage. I shall keep it in my traveling instrument case for those times it will be used in my travels to other lodges.
Thank you, my Brothers! I will wear it proudly!
Thank you, my Brothers! I will wear it proudly!
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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