Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

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FILED UNDER:

The Grumpy Past Master's Daughter

BACKGROUND:

This usually applies for all jurisdictions

that have their altars in the lodge room's center.

The tradition

is to make sure the line of sight

is never crossed/traversed/broken

between the open Three Great Lights on the Altar

and the WM.

Except during a degree

where candidates are the focus

and not the WM.

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Here's one of my youtube channel's videos
on this "free" theme:

(Please "Comment, Like and Subscribe!")

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You are tasked with explaining to Candidates how the word "Free" was an anglicized version of the french word "Franche/Franc".

1) Show how the word "Free" transitioned from meaning "excellent, superior, pure" to "unrestrained".
2) Show at least 7 medieval guilds that used the word "Free", or used the French versions of the word, in front of their occupation to communicate they were to top professionals in their field.
3) Explain to the candidates how using the original meaning of the word "free" changes one's view of "Free Masonry" and "Free & Accepted"?
Bonus: Show at least four (4) other words that mean the same thing as the word "Accepted" as it is used in "Free & Accepted".

Source:

http://www.coach.net/BuildingFreeMen.htm

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Wisdom is not a Blessing Received
Without Struggle.

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Those who earnestly and sincerely desire
to recognize God's Patterned Creations in many realms
must study the 7 Liberal Arts & Sciences.
Such study transforms understandings
and fills hearts with ample appreciation of His Work.
One would think that this and this alone
would be enough to inspire men to invest in such activities.

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Thomas Gospel 3 - Jesus said, “If your leaders say to you, ‘Look, the Father’s kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Father’s kingdom is within you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty.”

Thomas Gospel 51 - His disciples said to him, “When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?” He said to them, “What you are looking forward to has come, but you don’t know it.”

Thomas Gospel 113 - His disciples said to him, “When will the kingdom come?” “It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, ‘Look, here!’ or ‘Look, there!’ Rather, the Father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don’t see it.”

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Luke 17:20-21 - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

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“Know Yourself” was the central enlightening concept related to the religion of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

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