Saturday, August 12, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-08-12

 

-------------- HUMOR --------------  
 
 
 
One of the most powerful 
experiences men can have 
is the realization that 
what they thought they knew about words 
and all their preconceived notions 
that they have wrapped around 
words in general,
 can actually have other meanings 
that have nothing to do with 
what they thought they knew. 
 
This is the wonderful power 
of Masonic Ritual and Lexicon. 
It entices men 
to actually THINK differently 
about everything 
they thought they knew.

 -------------- UNDERSTAND! -------------- 
 
 
-------------- UNDERSTAND! --------------  
 
 
 
When you know what you're doing,
life is Better. 
When you don't know what you're doing, 
life is difficult. 
 
-------------- THE LOST WORD! --------------   
 
 
THE LOST WORD MASONIC LODGE
SOMETHING HAS SURVIVED! in a lodge near you
 
Has it found you?
 
-------------- TRUE GRIT! --------------  
 
 
"It is, after all, 
the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell 
that makes the pearl, 
not pearl-making seminars 
with other oysters."  
-- Stephen King
 
Sometimes a little grit is a good thing! 
 
What grit do you have in your life?
 
  -------------- PLANNING -------------- 
 
 
 Any Lodge that does not have
 a 5 year vision and mission 
and a business plan 
that consistently supports them 
is subject to a lot of annual jerks.
 
-------------- PERFORMER --------------  


One can memorize and perform a play 
about builders with the titles
 and words of Builders, 
but that does not in any way 
qualify the performer
 to be a Builder Himself.
 
-------------- FIVE STATES --------------  


-------------- MYTH --------------  
  
FILED UNDER: EA & FC WORK!!!!
 
"Now there is a beautiful phrase that I ran into in Novalis: 
'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and the outer worlds meet.' 
The outer world is what you get in scholarship, 
the inner world is your response to it.
 And it is where these come together 
that we have the myths. 
The outer world changes with historical time, 
the inner world is the world of anthropos. 
The mythological systems are a constant, 
and what you are recognizing is your own inward life,
 and at the same time the inflection to history. 
The problem of making the inner meet the outer of today is, 
of course, the function of the artist."
-- Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey
 
Hence the reason for doing the Work 
which the first two degrees direct us to do
 - Bring Order to the Chaos of the heart and head.
 

That's why I GOTTA BE ME!

On the other hand, 
the punishments that you receive
 is too often being who you are.
 
-------------- THE TWO --------------  
 

<sigh> This pretty much summarizes 
the experience of far too many 
of the growing Freemasonic alumni association.

Wouldn't it be great 
to have the two 
be synonymous in practice?
 
Maybe someday...
 ...hopefully sooner than later.
 
For Further Light:
The Two!

 
-------------- WHAT TO DIVEST --------------  
 

Your Common Gavel 
will do you no good whatsoever 
if you don't know 
of what to divest from your Ashlar.  
 
Have you a list 
of the things that you consciously 
and deliberately 
divested though your virtue building? 
 
What's on it?
 
-------------- WELL! --------------  
 
 
 
Was it others 
who Raised you to Mastery 
or was it through your Work 
that you were Raised? 
 
How do you feel 
about the path you chose 
the be raised?
 
What difference has it made 
for all involved?
 
-------------- TRUTH --------------  
 

"Your Truth" 
"How you choose to perceive things 
regardless of how this conflicts with reality"
 
-------------- END --------------

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

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