-------------- HUMOR --------------
All... Too... Familiar!
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------
-------------- BRING IT ON! --------------
Enlightenment
is an Irreversible Bourne you Experience,
like it or not.
-------------- ALLEGORY--------------
-------------- LIGHT --------------
Some
Get So Distracted by Light
they forget that it is only Meant
to truly
Illuminate, Illustrate and Educate
not Nauseate, Agitate and Constipate.
What shall ultimately destroy the Craft
is not Leadership that enables unmerited Progression.
It shall be those Brothers who foolishly support this Rubbish
hoping future Generations shall somehow rebuild
what they have left to decay.
Make a positive difference for this
and future generations!
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
(What are some things that
a boy can only be taught by a man?)
What Proficiencies Aim for
and Catechism Coaches
Miss most of the time.
-------------- RECYCLED --------------
It's a real shocker to go along
minding your own business
and suddenly realize that
you're made up of 100% recycled atoms!
-------------- HAVOC --------------
The moment any Generation believes
it is Mature because of the work of previous ones
and does no Maturing Work of its own
is the moment immaturity shall Reign in Havoc.
For Further Light:
-------------- SILLY --------------
When you Know what Masonry is Truly about,
you know too how Silly Some Freemasons Truly are.
For Further Light:
-------------- COURAGE --------------
-------------- SUPPORT --------------
Once you understand that the Craft
shall continuously fail to Build Better Lodges
until those Lodges Build Men Better,
you may also begin to understand
your responsibility to it.
For Further Support:
-------------- MYTH --------------
"My great friend Heinrich Zimmer had a saying:
'The best things cannot be told;
the second best are misunderstood.'
The second best are misunderstood
because they talk about what cannot be told
and one thinks one knows what they are saying.
This is the way religion is.
The idea of God
is an idea that is metaphoric
of something that cannot be told,
and yet we say that God is good,
God is merciful, God is just,
and God loves these people
and not those, etc., etc.
We are not talking about God at all.
We are talking about our IDEA of God.
Meister Eckhart, in the thirteenth century, said,
'The ultimate leave-taking is leaving God for God.' ...
Gods are all metaphors of this ultimate mystery,
the mystery of your own being."
-- Joseph Campbell,
"The Mythic Dimension:
Selected Essays 1959 - 1987: 'Creativity' "
I love the way that Joseph expresses this!
-------------- YOU ARE! --------------
The Problem:
The collective "we" of whom most Freemasons speak
have not yet come from Darkness into Light
and by their exemplified behavior
have yet to truly Learn anything of substance
from the Freemasonic Machine.
The Troubles:
Just open your eyes!
Every Trouble the Craft faces today
is due to it not meeting The Challenge.
The Challenge:
To change this.
-------------- TRIPPING! --------------
For Further Light:
-------------- INCLUSIVE --------------
Freemasonry
is perhaps the single most Inclusive way
for Good Men to Freely
and Willingly Immerse themselves
within a Nurturing Environment of Moral Instruction
that Excludes the Politically Corrupting Influences
of any one Religion.
For Further Light:
"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them."
-- Joseph Brodsky
-------------- READING MATERIALS --------------
What Are Your Reading Plans This Autumn?
Why Not Make Them Count?
(SOON TO BE +1!)
For Further Light:
READING
(SOON TO BE +1!)
For Further Light:
READING
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
PS: Subscribe to get daily notifications
You can also find me on:
https://mewe.com/i/john_snagy
https://www.facebook.com/johns.nagy
Educational Materials can be found here:
No comments:
Post a Comment