Saturday, September 2, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-02

 

 
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Setting Your Plumb!
 
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When you Want Mastery, 
Stop Dogmatically Following 
unMasterful Crowds 
and Start Following Road Maps 
Provided by Informed
 and Achieving Brothers.
 
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The END IN MIND for Masonic Work
 is for men to be MORE AWARE of 
Political and Religious issues, themes, trends and involvements, 
and NOT superficially either.
When you do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Blessing.
When you don't do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Curse.
What is that Work? 
What ritual directs us to do! 
And that ain't memorizing and repeating it back.
It's becoming Well-Informed & Masterfully Skilled 
in applying ourselves toward Temporal and Spiritual matters! 
This INCLUDES Politics & Religion!
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To Strengthen your Spiritual Grasp,
 Seek to Comprehend the Differences 
Between Forever and Eternity.
 
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I: What's Missing that Prevents Freemasonry 
from Being what It was Intended to Be?
R: It's VALUE behind the MEMBERSHIP. 
The Whole of its Membership is too focused on:
1) Putting on the PLAY,
2) Maintaining the Theater, and
3) Supporting the Prop Departments
and not enough Focused upon ...
1) Building the Actors' Hearts, Minds and Skills 
toward Living Better Lives OUTSIDE the Theater.
Men do not invest in a facade very long 
after they realize there's nothing backing it.
 
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Missing

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Passions should be 
Fed, Fanned & Well-Directed; 
not Starved, Suffocated & Snuffed.
 
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Degrees Question Your Will

EA - Will you Prepare to Learn?
FC - Will you Learn How to Learn?
MM - Will you Learn and Teach?


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FILED UNDER: 
What's your priority?
 
I'd rather Work with one Brother 
who Seeks to Raise Himself, 
than an Entire Jurisdiction of men 
who want Nothing More 
than to have Others 
do the Raising for them. 
 
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FILED UNDER: 
Recognizing Implications
 
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Sometimes Our Most Significant Breakthroughs 
Occur when what we Depend upon 
is Missing or doesn't Hold Up 
to Professed Standards or Vigorous Use 
and we are Forced to Grapple 
with Inevitable Results.
 
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Passions!

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BEHOLD! 
 
Meeting Minutes 
and Treasurer's Reports Inform, 
But they do not Nurture 
the Souls of Builders. 
Starve Not Your Brothers 
Who Gather in Unity.
   
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 Apprentice Wisdom

You cease being an "Entered" Apprentice 
ONLY when you start to do your Apprentice Work. 
Don't do the Work, 
be forever at the Gate.

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FILED UNDER: 
A Serious Conundrum!
 
If you are the Lodge's
 Example of Mastery, 
How is it that Men 
are not Fighting to Join 
your Lodge in Droves?
 
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“Wherever the poetry of myth 
is interpreted as 
biography, history, or science,
 it is killed.”
― Joseph Campbell, 
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
 
This occurs far too often 
within the Fraternity, 
and without.
  
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"When men yield up  
the privilege of thinking,  
the last shadow of liberty 
quits the horizon." 
— Thomas Paine, 1775.
 
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 As an Organization, 
we have for far too long 
Allowed the Activities of 
Craft Cowans and Ruffians 
to Frack our Masonic Watershed. 
 
 Is it any small wonder why 
many find our offered waters distasteful? 
 
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FILED UNDER: 
YAAARRRRR!!!!!!!
 
Logic - The Study of Arguments 
Pirates - Living ARGuments 
 
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Have you read this book? 
What did you get from reading it? 
What were your "take-aways"? 
Would you recommend it? 
If so, to whom? 

Let me know your thoughts.

 

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

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