Thursday, September 7, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-07

 

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For Further Light:
 
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You can inspire others 
by being a successful role model 
for what they might have consider 
improbable for themselves 
until they met you. 
 
Let them know it's possible! 
 
Show them how it's done! 
 
LEAD!
 
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It is only after this Generation Steps Up 
and Leads by Proper Cultivated Example 
that Future Generations shall be Led 
by Those who are Properly Cultivated!
 
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The Canvas You Paint 
is Your Own, 
Make It Masterful!

Display it proudly!

 
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May All Your Labors 
Be Conceived in Love, 
Committed in Hope, 
and Delivered in Faith.
 
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There are times 
when too high a price is asked 
for being nice 
to those who have 
no interest in niceness 
other than to take advantage 
of those who offer it 
in kindness, respect and civility 
and at the offerer's detriment.
 
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Sadly, 
Progression Occurs So Swiftly these days 
that Entered Apprentices never Apprentice, 
Fellow Crafts Don't Climb Stairs 
and Masters are so Inept 
that Others must Raise them.
 
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|O| The Flanked Circumpunct: 
The most underused 
misunderstood Working Tool 
that was ever hung upon
 a Mason's wall.
 
-------------- TRACK RECORD! -------------- 
 

The Next Time Anyone Asks to Join, 
Please Assure that they have 
a Track Record of Improvement. 
Always Expect that you'll get 
More of the Same.
 
 -------------- LOOKS WILL BETRAY YOU --------------
 

When you don't know 
the differences between 
a "Free Mason" 
and a "Freemason", 
you're likely the Latter.

For Further Light:
 
-------------- APPRENTICE! -------------- 
 
 
 An Entered Apprentice 
has yet to Serve 
an Apprenticeship. 
An Apprentice 
is someone doing 
Apprentice Work!
 
Know the Difference!
Be The Difference!
 
-------------- MYTH -------------- 
 
"Creative artists ... 
are mankind's wakeners to recollection: 
summoners of our outward mind 
to conscious contact with ourselves, 
not as participants in this 
or that morsel of history, 
but as spirit, in the consciousness of being. 
Their task, therefore, 
is to communicate directly 
from one inward world to another, 
in such a way that an actual shock of experience 
will have been rendered: 
not a mere statement for the information
 or persuasion of a brain, 
but an effective communication 
across the void of space and time 
from one center of consciousness 
to another."
-- Joseph Campbell, 
"The Masks of God, Volume IV: 
Creative Mythology"
 
-------------- FRAUD! -------------- 
 
 
You can't Honestly wear 
a Master's Title 
and Claim Rightfully to be
 an Entered Apprentice forever 
without Portraying Fraud.
 
For Further Light:
 
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"A person will worship something, 
have no doubt about that. 
We may think our tribute 
is paid in secret 
in the dark recesses of our hearts, 
but it will out. 
That which dominates 
our imaginations
 and our thoughts 
will determine our lives, 
and our character.
 Therefore, it behooves us to be careful 
what we worship, 
for what we are worshiping
 we are becoming."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
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 Masonry empowers men
 to explore their Faith; 
It arms them with 
Travel Support 
they could not find 
elsewhere.
 
-------------- UNDERSTAND... -------------- 
 
  
Masonry doesn't provide men with Faith; 
it provides them with the means 
to better understand their chosen Faith 
and more deeply. 
 
-------------- CHANGE... -------------- 
 
 
“You never change things 
by fighting the existing reality. 
To change something, 
build a new model that makes 
the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
 
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I'm shining as bright as I can... 
 
How about you?
  
-------------- DIRECTIONS! --------------   
 
 
The Great Success of Freemasonry 
is Providing Directions 
that any man can Follow.
 
The Great Failing
is too few men Desire 
to Follow them.
 
For Further Light:
 
-------------- FIBER! --------------  
    

Book Fiber 
is Extremely Good 
for Healthy Mental Digestion.
(and great Regularity as well!)
 
It does a Temple Good!
 
For Further Light:
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 Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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