Friday, July 14, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-07-14

 

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What is Symbolic Hypocrisy?
 Forcefully Negating 
Another's Assigned Meanings and Interpretations 
While Insisting upon 
Every Freedom and Liberty 
to have your Own.
 
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THE MASTER PLAN!
(How well do you Benefit from it?)

 
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Aedificium Edificium Melior Aedificantes
Latomus Uno eo Tempore!
(It's what I do!)
 
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FAIR & BALANCED WARNING: 
These Timeline Posts 
will Provoke Increases in 
Masonic Intelligence 
& Decreases in 
Freemasonic Ignorance, 
When Thought about In Depth.
 
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(Hat tip to Bro. SK H Glen!) 
 
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(Hat tip to Bro. Gene Ballinger!) 
 
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Without any 
equivocation or reservation 
of mind in me whatsoever.
 
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“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. 
This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention 
on what you are experiencing now. 
 
I think that’s washed out a bit by the notion 
that everyone will be happy in heaven. 
 
You had better be happy here, now. 
You’d better experience the eternal here and now. 
 
Being 'happy with Him forever in heaven' means 
that while you are here on earth you should be happy: 
that is to say, 
your life should be identified with the divine power, 
the eternal power in all life.
 
 If you concretize the symbol of heaven, 
the whole situation disintegrates. 
 
You think, for example, 
that eternity is there, 
and your life is here. 
 
You believe that God, 
the source of energy, 
is there, 
and you are here, 
and He may come into your life 
or He may not.
 
 No, no—that source of eternal energy is here,
 in you, now.”
-- Joseph Campbell, 
"A Joseph Campbell Companion: 
Reflections on the Art of Living.”
 
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Secrecy is both a Trusted red herring and gold Standard for those individuals who have done the Work; it is an Officious Target and Tyrannical Enslaver for those who have not. Without Work done, you'll view Secrecy as an evil and you'll blindly attempt to obtain its elusive bounty. With Work done, you'll see Secrecy as a Faithful Guardian whose first Discipline requires Building Word-Action Integrity by answering the question: Can you give your Word and keep true to It? Ultimately, you are known for who you are by your Attitude toward Secrecy; this is no Secret. 
 
The Shortcomings of the Craft are a direct reflection of Work not done.
 
 When your Word is Masterful, you can give It Masterfully and even the Profane can Recognize It. Without Mastery though, you can only give your word and even the Profane shall Recognize this.  
 
The Master's Word requires Mastery. Work toward this End and your Word shall and will Be.  
 The Shortcomings of the Craft are a direct reflection of Work not done. 
 
You'll not manifest Mastery chasing Superficial Ends.
 
Semantics is an important part of Trivial Masonic Studies that helps clarify Bogus Specifics.
 
Much like Hydrogen Sulfide gas, the Higher the concentration of Bogus Specifics, the more likely it shall go undetected until it terminates the life it engulfs.
 
The Working Tools should be Mastered Speculatively and Applied Operatively upon our Ashlars.
 
The difference between Masters and non-masters is that when Master's foul up, it's a Beaut!    
 
Masons are not Role Models because they chose to be Role Models. They are because What they have Chosen to Be is Worthy of Emulation. 
 
Faith is the conscious recognition, clear understanding and purposeful choice to believe in likely occurrences of specific possibilities that collectively appear to be highly improbable, to do so regardless of supportive or dismissive evidence, and to place trust in specific directions based upon that chosen belief.  
 
What Mastery activities are you undertaking this week?  
 
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-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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