Random Building Thoughts - 2023-11-27

 

-------------- PRIORITIES --------------

"Such Masons are distinguished 

not by the amount of knowledge that they possess,

 but by the number of the jewels that they wear. 

They will give fifty dollars for a decoration, 

but not fifty cents for a book."
-- W. Bro. Albert G. Mackey, 1875

 <sigh> ...and then there are those of us who seek and find Light
and write those books that these Freemasons will never seek...

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

 

They are coming up sooner than you might expect!

 

(Hat Tip to Bro. Thomas Hamilton)

 

   -------------- MASONIC ED! -------------- 

 

Yes!  There are THREE!!!

-------------- OLD STUFF --------------

 

The Craft uses archaic words like "charity"
as a way of inviting men
to think deeper about words in general.
 

For those who don't want to think deeper,
it invites them to run fundraisers. 

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

The candidates are getting restless once again. 

They were very disappointed that they were not told 

before their initiation that they were to be 

setting foot on sacred ground during the ceremony. 

You find yourself scratching your head and wondering 

why they are making such a big deal about it.  

 

Your Task:
 

1) Research Scripture for anything that denotes 

Solomon's Temple as being holy ground 

and write down each section you find.
 

2) Explain each passage's validity as to the claim 

that the ground is sacred 

and what difference this knowledge should make 

toward candidates' ritual experiences.
 

3) Justify either informing or not informing candidates 

before their ritual experience as to their treading 

upon sacred soil during ritual.

-------------- METAPHYSICS --------------

Without Well-Founded Arts and Sciences
Education, Metaphysical Study
Brings Forth Its Own Infidelities. 

-------------- MYTHOLOGY --------------

"It has always been the prime function 

of mythology and rite to supply the symbols
that carry the human spirit forward,
in counteraction to those constant human fantasies
that tend to tie it back. In fact,
it may well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism
among ourselves follows from the decline among us
of such effective spiritual aid."
- Joseph Campbell,
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces" , p.7

 

-------------- VISION --------------

What Lack of Clarity Blocks Your Vision? 

-------------- PSA FOR THE DAY --------------

“The further a society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those who speak it.”
-- Selwyn Duke (2009)

For Further Light:
Source

-------------- THE MOMENT --------------

 Furthermore,
the moment you blame them
is the moment you become responsible
for taking your life in new directions.

-------------- NO FURTHER THOUGHT --------------

 

The experience most members have of the Light provided 

by most Jurisdictions is that what Masquerades as "Masonic Education" 

is actually Strictly Enforced "Freemasonic Training" 

which requires no further thought 

than to do what they are told.

FOR FURTHER LIGHT: 

 Freethought & Education

-------------- TESTIMONIAL --------------

Coach, we (lodges in NW, CO),
have put on a handful of EA degrees over the summer.
I'm guessing I'll be called upon soon
to conduct these Brothers up a flight of winding stairs.
These will be the first times that I give the lecture
since reading "Building Athens".
Thanks to you,
it will be a different experience for ME this time!
You have added many new layers of understanding of it for me
and I'm anxious to start "shining it up"
with a new and extra perspective.
And about "Athens"...
...this is weird...
I went to Ohio U in Athens,
and majored in Interpersonal Communication
(Speech Communication, Persuasion, etc).
Minor in Sociology.
Just an observation..but ironic nonetheless.  

-- David Moran‎ to John S Nagy
-November 27, 2011 at 2:58 AM 

   -------------- BOOK #16 NOW AVAILABLE! -------------- 

 

 JUST IN CASE YOU
DIDN'T HEAR THE GOOD NEWS!

MY 16th BOOK 

IS PRINTED 

 and BEING SHIPPED!

The Craft Mastered!  

is available!

PLEASE put your orders in now 

if you would like 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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