Random Building Thoughts - 2023-11-15

 

 -------------- TEACH! ---------------

 

Don't just Train your Brothers to Memorize Ritual.

Teach them to both Understand it and even 

Question what they are being asked to Memorize! 

Teach them to Investigate, Explore, and Question

everything Freemasonry has to offer. 

 

 For More Light:

 Why memorizing is not enough

 

 For Further Light:

Th e Purpose of Memorizing

 

 -------------- MASONIC EDUCATION ---------------

 

 

   -------------- DIRECTION ---------------

 

 

 

All I ever needed 

to direct me as a man 

and Mason in Masonry 

was revealed to me 

in the Blue Lodge.

-------------- HUMOR ---------------

 

-------------- HOW TO LISTEN ---------------

 

-------------- CULTIVATION ---------------

 

FILED UNDER:
Know Your Agenda!

Your Soul Purpose 

is to Cultivate Itself. 

 

-------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE ---------------

 

BACKGROUND & UPDATE:
This challenge came up
as a result of a 3 year quest.
Two years later the questions
have been
addressed, written about and published
in the book:
THE CRAFT PERFECTED
 

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A group of candidates have confusion. 

They tell you their lecture says "perfect ashlar"
but several have identified excerpts
from Prestonian lectures stating
the "smooth ashlar" as one of the jewels.
 

1) You are tasked with tracking down a FULL
and COMPLETE version of the actual Lecture
where Preston uses "smooth ashlar".
Do this.
 

2) You are tasked with explaining,
based upon his lecture,
the difference between the smooth ashlar
and the perfect ashlar.
Write up the explanation.
 

3) You are tasked with
finding the source of Preston's
smooth ashlar reference.
Find it!

PS - TCP can be found here:
http://www.coach.net/TCP.htm

  -------------- LIFE 101 ---------------

 

 

 -------------- MASTERY! ---------------

 

Geometry, Music, and Astronomy 

brilliantly and entertainingly presented 

through body Rhetoric.

Wisdom, Strength, & Beauty

 

-------------- FACE IT ---------------

 

 

Seek not to unmask others.
Seek to unmask yourself
and lead the way for others so inclined.
Such Light is addictive to prepared souls;
repulsive to those not.

 

   -------------- GOD ---------------

 

 

-------------- MYTH ---------------

"My magnificent master
and great friend of many years ago,
Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943),
had a saying:
'The best things can’t be told:
the second best are misunderstood.'
The second best are misunderstood because,
as metaphors poetically of what cannot be told,
they are misread prosaically
as referring to tangible facts."
– Joseph Campbell
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space (p. xxiii)

Image: Pieter Lastman's
Jonah and the Whale, 1621.
Public domain.

  -------------- BOOK #16 NOW RELEASED! -------------- 

JUST IN CASE YOU 

DIDN'T HEAR THE GOOD NEWS!
 

MY 16th BOOK 

IS NOW PRINTED 

& BEING SHIPPED!

The Craft Mastered!  

is available!

PLEASE put your orders in now 

if you would like buy a copy

 for your collections.

You can order it here:

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

Also, please share the link 

if you want to inform others

of its availability.

Thank you in advance!

Coach Nagy

 

Are you all caught up 

on your reading?

 

  -------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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