Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Monday, November 20, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-11-20

-------------- GRAMMAR, LOGIC, & RHETORIC --------------

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

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

A forward thinking Brother wants
to have a differently focused Freemasonic Lodge.
He likes the Traditional Observance (TO) concept,
but feels that it is not the direction
or the focus he wants to take his lodge.
His desire is to have a Lodge focused upon
having its members actually doing the Work
that the USA Preston-Webb based Rituals
directs its members to do to make Good Men Better.

In this respect,
he want to focus Apprentices on Maturing their hearts,
assuring the foundational Work is established
prior to their progressing to the next degree.

He wants to assure that the basics of the 7 liberal arts and sciences
are well-established within Fellow Crafts
before being Raised to Masters,
thus assuring they have every opportunity
to mature their heads.

He also wants to have all newly Raised
and seasoned Masters of the Lodge
commit to and participate within
a monitorial system of teaching
that assists the younger members
toward achieving Legitimate Mastery.

Your task it come up with a unique name or term
that both does honor to this type of Lodge
that distinguishes it from the typical Lodges now offered,
but also clearly denotes the different kind of activities
this type of Lodge offers to its members.

1) What name or term would you suggest
and why have you chosen this term or name?

2) How do you think such a Lodge will be received by Lodges
who practice progression that is nothing like it?

3) Do you believe such a Lodge should be a special type of Lodge
that focuses upon education rather than
focusing upon putting on degrees and why?

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

"Schopenhauer wrote a wonderful paper on 'An Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual' . . . He says that when you go through life, this character appears, that character appears, and it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your sixties or seventies and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme. Things have happened, you realize, in an appropriate way. Incidents that seemed to be accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote the novel? You did.' "

-- Joseph Campbell,

"Mythic Worlds, Modern Words:

Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce" , p. 286

write it well...
and like your life depended upon it...

-------------- MOTIVATION --------------

Those who earnestly and sincerely desire
to recognize God's Patterned Creations in their many realms
must study the Seven 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.

-------------- CHALLENGE --------------

Every Generation Faces the Same Exact Challenge:
Raising its Next Generation to Civil Maturity
When it Fails in this one Act
So does Civilization and Ruffians shall Rule

-------------- CIVILITY --------------

-------------- TRAIN IT! --------------

Most original Theological and Philosophic writings
are in languages you won’t understand
unless you have trained you mind differently.

For Further Light:
(Building Perpends
- Uncommon Aphorism for
Uncommon Masonic Education - Volume 5)

-------------- THE GRAND CONSPIRACY --------------