-------------- HUMOR --------------
-------------- CHARACTER --------------
Never,
ever assume that a man placing his hand upon a Bible
is setting his
Plumb.
For that to occur,
he must also place his eyes upon it,
open his
chest and willfully, deliberately and consciously
engrave its contents
upon his heart.
His actions from that moment on
reveal if his setting
was successful, true and honest.
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
You're DDGM asked you to put a program on that will nurture Apprentices in life changing ways. You're tasked with teaching them the basics of divestiture.
1) How do you go about drawing from them the similarities and differences between Superfluities and Vices while providing them every opportunity to teach you so that you have no doubt that they know about what they are talking?
2) How do you draw from them examples that fit their previous explanations and do so in such a way that they get motivated to divest any that they might have?
3) What program of divestment would they offer to you that guarantees the divestment that they desire to achieve?
For Further Light:
http://www.coach.net/TCP.htm
In Freemasonry you can 
Masonic
Development
-------------- BUILD -------------- 
“The
idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural
is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally
turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people
were living inauthentic lives, never doing a think they truly wanted to
because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their
clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not
properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is
a killer.... The spirit is really the bouquet of life. It is not
something breathed into life, it comes out of life. This is one of the
glorious things about the mother-goddess religions, where the world is
the body of the Goddess, divine in itself, and divinity isn't something
ruling over and above a fallen nature.... Our story of the fall in the
Garden sees nature as corrupt; and that myth corrupts the whole world
for us. Because nature is thought of as corrupt, every spontaneous act
is sinful and must not be yielded to. You get a totally different
civilization and a totally different way of living according to whether
your myth presents nature as fallen or whether nature is in itself a
manifestation of divinity, and the spirit is the revelation of the
divinity that is inherent in nature.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
The
problem with calling anything
For Further Light:
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-------------- SAD REALITY --------------
In Freemasonry you can
Speculate, Theorize and Philosophize
all you want
without ever
Doing any of the Actual Work
that Makes these Actions
Worthwhile.
Masonry such Unfounded Activities
shall Bury you in your
own Rubbish.
-------------- MONSTER LODGE --------------
MONSTER LODGE
When the Best of Intentions
When the Best of Intentions
Are Not Enough
(Okay! That's the last of the
Horrible Halloween month series!
(Okay! That's the last of the
Horrible Halloween month series!
I promise!)
-------------- HEALTHY --------------
Healthy Wombs Release
What They have Matured
and Hold Hostage
That Which Refuses Maturity.
Are You Free to Travel?
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-------------- ALLEGORY--------------
Enables men to take
the Cleverly Veiled Metaphorical Seeds
of Theological & Philosophical Texts
toward Fruition.
-------------- MYTH --------------
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
-------------- SYMBOLIC --------------
"Only" Symbolic
is that most people who
are untrained
in Symbolic Understanding
think that what is put forth
as
Symbolic doesn't occur
-- they are woefully mistaken.
Things are
expressed Symbolically
to indicate that real things do occur
and that
the Symbolic expression
points to these realities.
To think otherwise
only reflects
an undeveloped Understanding of Symbols,
which shall soon
enough be Understood
when a Symbolic violation occurs
that brings about a
reality
to which the Symbols warned.
Especially when one comes to
Understand "cause and effect"
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Penalties
-------------- SEE BEYOND --------------
-------------- ORDER --------------
Masonry:
Bringing Order to Chaos
since Time Immemorial!
-------------- RUFFIANS --------------
Hidden in Plain Sight...
or It's a Hiram Life for Me!
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This is a statement and question pair
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This is a statement and question pair
too often put forth by Brothers who refuse to do the Work:
- We're still looking for an explanation
as to what you mean. - Why aren't you giving us the answer
we demand from you?
Here's were I usually reply:
"When
you examine the flow of thought throughout the offered information,
you're more likely to come to see a pattern within that flow that will
make it clearer to you, as in: the explanation is 'already before you
hidden in plain sight'. You must seek it for it to become clear to
you."
They'll respond Jubalonicly, "Coach, why don't you just TELL ME?!" or something to that effect.
I'll respond with something like, "I Can't, Won't, Shan't give you something that you must give and thus obtain yourself".
They'll retort that they don't want to be one of my disciples, they just want a straight answer and I'll reply "I've been straight with you all along. You simply don't want to do the Work required to understand. You will not get it because you refuse to think it through. Which is the ONLY way you'll understand.
...and BTW - There's no need to attack me with lies. I don't have any disciples nor do I want them."
Ultimately we end in a stalemate or worse, they attack me personally, because they simple refuse to invest themselves in being any way other than their current state and want to be distracted from that by focusing upon me.
Does this sound even vaguely familiar to anyone else?
They'll respond Jubalonicly, "Coach, why don't you just TELL ME?!" or something to that effect.
I'll respond with something like, "I Can't, Won't, Shan't give you something that you must give and thus obtain yourself".
They'll retort that they don't want to be one of my disciples, they just want a straight answer and I'll reply "I've been straight with you all along. You simply don't want to do the Work required to understand. You will not get it because you refuse to think it through. Which is the ONLY way you'll understand.
...and BTW - There's no need to attack me with lies. I don't have any disciples nor do I want them."
Ultimately we end in a stalemate or worse, they attack me personally, because they simple refuse to invest themselves in being any way other than their current state and want to be distracted from that by focusing upon me.
Does this sound even vaguely familiar to anyone else?
Has anyone ever thought to ask:
Why didn't the Ruffians simply complete the Temple?
I mean, we do know it was actually completed,
at least twice!
-------------- RESPONSIBILITY --------------
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