Monday, September 4, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-04

 

 ------------- MEAL PLANNING --------------  
 
 

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------  
 
 
For Further Light:
The Craft Mastered!
 
-------------- CHALLENGE -------------- 
 
 

The Challenge: 
understanding what Symbols represent in reality 
& governing your life accordingly. 
 
The Problem: 
believing that Symbols don't represent 
persons, places, situations & things 
directly associate with realities important to your life. 
 
The Trouble: 
taking the Symbols for something that can be dismissed 
because they are for you merely maps & not the territories. 
 
Such foolishness occurs endlessly 
& the fall out is devastating 
for everyone this behavior touches. 
 
-------------- REPRESENT? --------------  
 
 
 
What Symbols 
Hidden In Plain Sight 
Within All Open Lodges 
Represent Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth 
For All Brothers to See?
 
 -------------- CHARACTER --------------  
 
 
 -------------- ALLEGORY--------------  
 
 
So much of 
provided Masonic literature 
is gruel 
- it fills one up 
but it lacks 
substance & significance. 
 
I want literature that is 
salutary to my Masonic needs 
-- The kind that brings me up, 
Strengthens my immune system, 
Gives me energy, 
Fortifies my bones, 
Clears my thinking, 
Builds my endurance, 
Opens my heart 
& lifts my spirit. 
 
Don't shove at me
the same old gruel; 
I've done nothing to deserve it, 
least I accept it without objection 
& hence deserve nothing less. 
 
-------------- SHARE IT -------------- 
 
 
LIVE IT!
 
-------------- TRAVEL -------------- 
 
 
 We indeed Travel 
not for its End 
but for What it does For us 
by Doing so.
 
-------------- LIP SERVICE --------------  
 
 
When You Want to Attract 
Good Men to The Craft, 
You Must Yourself Be Attractive.
Lip Service Alone Is Unattractive. 
 
 -------------- LABOR --------------
 

What doeth 
your Labors Wrought?
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 

"Living myths are not mistaken notions, 
and they do not spring from books. 
They are not to be judged as true or false 
but as effective or ineffective, 
maturative or pathogenic. . . 
They are not invented but occur, 
and are recognized by seers and poets, 
to be then cultivated 
and employed as catalysts 
of spiritual (i.e., psychological) well being."
-- Joseph Campbell, 
"The Flight of the Wild Gander"
 
Amen!
 
-------------- THE CHAMBER --------------  
 
 
Hiram Abiff and the Chamber of Secrets
at a lodge near you
(Have you visited the chamber?)

 
-------------- DROP -------------- 
 

When you dropped it, 
You Demonstrated 
your Love for the Craft 
or your Hate in your Heart.
 
-------------- SURROUND YOURSELF -------------- 
 
 
-------------- EACH GENERATION --------------
 

"Each generation deals with its own manifestations
 of age-old mob frenzies, bullying and public shaming. 
Salem, Mass., had its witch trials in the 1690s. 
The 1950s endured its McCarthyism. 
And we now are enduring our 'cancel culture.'”
— Victor Davis Hanson
 
(Hat tip to Bro. Garry Paxinos!)
 
-------------- RURAL --------------   
 
 
You know you're in a rural Lodge 
when the Tyler tries to keep off 
cow-hands and leaf-droppers.  
 
 -------------- DOORS --------------.

-------------- END --------------

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

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