Saturday, April 15, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-04-15

  

-------------- 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
 
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION--------------  
 
 
 -------------- LACK --------------  
 

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
—and here is a great key 
to the understanding of myth and symbol
—the two kingdoms are actually one.
 
"The realm of the gods 
is a forgotten dimension of the world we know.
 
"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.


CHOOSE!
 
For More Light:

-------------- THE PATH --------------  
 
 
Ritual Introduces you 
to the Path. 
 
It is not the Path Itself.  
 
For Further Light:
 
-------------- CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING! --------------  
 
 
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:
 
-------------- 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!

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

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