Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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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.

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COACH'S 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

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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.

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MONSTER LODGE
When the Best of Intentions

Are Not Enough

(Okay! That's the last of the
Horrible Halloween month series!

I promise!)

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Healthy Wombs Release

What They have Matured

and Hold Hostage

That Which Refuses Maturity.

Are You Free to Travel?

For More Light:

Foreign Lands

For Further Light:

Traveling Men

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Masonic Development

Enables men to take

the Cleverly Veiled Metaphorical Seeds

of Theological & Philosophical Texts

toward Fruition.

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“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

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The problem with calling anything

"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"

For Further Light:

Penalties

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Masonry:

Bringing Order to Chaos

since Time Immemorial!

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Hidden in Plain Sight...

or It's a Hiram Life for Me!
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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?

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!

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