Friday, September 22, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-22

 

-------------- HUMOR --------------  


All... Too... Familiar!

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION -------------- 
 
 
-------------- BRING IT ON! --------------  
  

Enlightenment 
is an Irreversible Bourne you Experience, 
like it or not.
 
-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  
 

How Exactly did you 
Get to this Point?

For Further Light:
 
  -------------- 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.
 
 -------------- MAKE A DIFFERENCE! --------------  
 
 
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:
 
-------------- WORSE THINGS --------------
 

"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

 
-------------- END --------------

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-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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