-------------- HUMOR --------------
For Further Light:
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------
-------------- PASSION --------------
The Miraculous Aspect of Passion
is How Each Enables and Empowers us
as we Subdue Them Toward Worthy Causes.
PASSIONS RADIUS
-------------- CIVILITY --------------
Civility
is often measured
by how you avoid condemning and sentencing others
for
believing or doing what you judge
to be personally wrong for you.
-------------- A RUFFIAN... --------------
OUR MASTER TONIGHT*
A lonely dark grave
Our Hiram sleeps this night...
He was put there,
by three assassins
who slayed him in his flight.
WEEEEEEEEEE are left without
the Master's Word...
WHOOOOOOOO left us without
WHOOOOOOOO left us without
the Master's Word?
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
A ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian, a ruffian...
For Further Light:
OPEN SEASON!
OPEN SEASON!
* With apologies to the author of "A Lion Sleeps Tonight..."
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
Repeating Back
Ritual Words and Actions
Doesn't Make You A Good Mason.
It Makes You a Good Thespian.
But it's A Good Start.
BE MORE THAN A PARROT!
-------------- KEEP THE CODE! --------------
When
You Wear One of These,
You Carry Within You a Moral Code
Handed Down
from One Man to Another,
Since Time Immemorial.
Don't Dirty It!
-------------- FOLLY --------------
Freemasonic Folly
Believing that
Being A Lodge Member
and Being a Mason
is The Same Thing.
EXPLORE THE DIFFERENCES!
Masonic Influence
on Brain Transformation
This was a fun one
to research and write.
For Further Light:
How Ritual
the Brain
-------------- CRACKED --------------
Every Time a Brother Violates
one of His Obligations,
Another Crack in his Ashlar
is Highlighted.
HONOR THEM!
LIVE THEM!
BE THEM!
LIVE THEM!
BE THEM!
-------------- PSA --------------
Mind-Blowing PSA of the Day:
Just in case you didn't notice it this time around:
* You are not a Physical Being
having a Spiritual Experience.
* You are not a Spiritual Being
having a Physical Experience.
* You are a Human Being experiencing
both a Physical and a Spiritual reality
at the same time.
It's called,
"Having a
Human Experience!"
ENJOY THE RIDE!
-------------- NO MUCK! --------------
If you are a Craft Member...
You have been Honored by being
You have been Honored by being
Permitted into a very Special Ancient Fraternity.
It is a Privilege. It is Sacred. It is Precious.
It has no Profanity upon its Walls.
Don't Muck It Up!
Experiencing
Fear means that you Perceive Danger
and that your body is telling you
to ready yourself
should that Perception be True.
No matter how you
want to create a cute way of remembering this,
when you don't do a Reality
Check on that Perception,
you're setting yourself up for Potential
Troubles.
-------------- MYTH --------------
"Now the key story for me about
Buddhism concerns the sermon
where the Buddha was seated,
and there was a group around him
and he just held up a flower.
Just a flower.
One in the group got
what the Buddha was on about.
For him,
the flower itself was enough to spark enlightenment.
The rest of the crowd were still in the dark,
so to speak,
so the Buddha delivered a sermon
—the Flower Wreath Sūtra—
to explain what he meant,
which was this:
there is nothing to say about life.
It has no meaning.
You make meaning.
If you want a meaning in your life,
find a meaning and bring it into your life,
but life won't give you a meaning.
Meaning is a concept.
It is a notion of an end toward which you are going.
The point of Buddhism is This Is It."
Joseph Campbell, Myths of Light, p. 135
Joseph Campbell, Myths of Light, p. 135
Yup. Enjoy it while you can.
-------------- SOUL --------------
“The inner world is the world of your requirements
and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world.
And the outer world is the field of your incarnation.
That’s where you are.
You’ve got to keep both going.
As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul
is there where inner and outer worlds meet.'"
-- Joseph Campbell & The Power of Myth" (with Bill Moyers)
Apprentice Work = Inner World = The Self = The Creature
Fellow Work = Outer World = The Universe = The Creation
(Soul Development!)
----------------------------
Master Mason = Beyond this World = The Word = The Creator!
(Spiritual Development!)
-------------- LEVEL --------------
OFF THE LEVEL
Insisting upon being called
anything other than "Brother"
by Brothers or using your Position
within the Craft
to Treat Brothers Unfairly.
ID Them!
Practice your Charge!
I want so much to believe that this
is the basis for every FAITH that claims GOOD as its AIM.
I could easily rewrite this to say:
Don't use FAITH to become a FAITHER.
Use your FAITH to become better THROUGH
whatever else you are doing already.
The reason for embracing any Faith
is not to be identified as one of the Faithful.
That does no good and often times creates discord.
The reason to embrace any Faith is to learn its principles
and apply them toward the good that occurs
as a result of their application.
-------------- RUFFIAN! --------------
-------------- CONSUMED --------------
When
you Become so Consumed
by Practices, Business Meetings and Committees
that they keep you from Being with
and Developing Good Friends,
You've
missed the Entire Point of Freemasonry.
Watch the Consumption!
-------------- SET IT! --------------
Do you want to find a Purpose in Life?
1) Decide what you Value most.
2) Choose how you want to Honor what you Value most.
3) Create a Plan to Live True to what you Value most.
4) Live that Plan on Purpose!
(Life without a properly set plumb is a major bummer!)
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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