Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-10-14

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True Story...

(Inspirational hat tip to Tyler Dowdy!)

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For Further Light:

The Work

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Simple Research Tip:

The Better the Craft Information,

the more Distant it is from

the Wildly Accepted Conjectures

put forth by Craft Zealots.

What wild conjectures have you heard?

For Further Light:

Research

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STAY CALM
and
STOP BEATING HIRAM
PLEASE!

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Oh My!

That's some might fancy fantasy

your waving around in every one's faces.

Do you even Know what it means?

Have you even tried to Understand it?

For Further Light:
Freemasonic Mythology

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The sooner this is understood by members

the sooner they can begin to Work upon their Ashlars

and show the betterment to which that slogan

"Makes Good Men Better" refers.

Masonry is about Building.

Masons Learn, Teach, and Apply

Masonry.

Freemasonry is about the Organization

of Free & Accepted Masons.

Members Learn about,

are taught about,

and participate in Organization activities.

For Further Light:
Differences

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Pythagoras knew

all the Angles.

Do you?

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Imagine the Profound Impact

True Speculation would have

upon the Commonly Employed

Conjecture of the Craft.

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“Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense. The good news, which the World Redeemer brings and which so many have been glad to hear, zealous to preach, but reluctant, apparently, to demonstrate, is that God is love, the He can be, and is to be, loved, and that all without exception are his children.

"Such comparatively trivial matters as the remaining details of the credo, the techniques of worship, and devices of episcopal organization (which have so absorbed the interest of Occidental theologians that they are today seriously discussed as the principal questions of religion), are merely pedantic snares, unless kept ancillary to the major teaching. Indeed, where not so kept, they have the regressive effect: they reduce the father image back again to the dimensions of the totem. And this, of course, is what has happened throughout the Christian world. One would think that we had been called upon to decide or to know whom, of all of us, the Father prefers. Whereas, the teaching is much less flattering: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' The World Savior's cross, in spite of the behavior of its professed priests, is a vastly more democratic symbol than the local flag.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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It's amazing how many Freemasons

won't accept anything said or written

about the Craft

unless it can be backed by

some widely accepted Conjecture

written down by

some long dead well-meaning Brother.

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PM Stressing a Point?
Interesting: From the article "Torture, Terror and Theology" from the Christian Research Institute

The Infamous “Third Degree.” Whence comes the term, “the third degree”? From the Inquisition, of course! It was all a matter of the nature and duration of the torment. The first degree involved cutting off the victim’s clothing and showing him the instruments of torture. The second started the torture itself, to be sustained no longer than the time it took for an inquisitor to recite a single Ave Maria or Pater Noster—probably about one minute. The third degree was full torture itself, and without such time limits.

But there were more! The fourth degree called for more torture yet, such as jerking the ropes of the strapado, with its inevitably horrendous agony. And finally, in the fifth degree— reserved for the heroic holdouts—there were no limits. Limbs might be torn out of sockets, with the victims perishing on the tables of torture, even though it was not supposed to go that far.

LINK: http://www.equip.org/article/torture-terror-and-theology/

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