Random Building Thoughts - 2023-12-13

 

-------------- TOUCHING HUMOR --------------

-------------- INDOCTRINATION --------------

When you Provide Indoctrination
and not Education
and have the Majority
Accept it Willfully,
you'll fill your Ranks
with Mindless Minions.

 -------------- Inner Guards --------------

Oh, for want of sanity's tests,
Our ranks rank deep in madness.
It's not upon the knocking hordes,
But those who guard our Inner Doors.

"On an increasingly frequent basis
I find myself painfully aggrieved by seeing,
hither-and-thither,
walking testaments to the abject failure
of several investigating committees."
-- Bro. Anthony Mongelli

-------------- PLUG --------------

 <snicker> Are you a Ridin' Man?

The Craft UNMASKED!
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-------------- VEILS --------------

How Many Veils
Have You Lifted?

-------------- M-E-T-A-P-H-O-R!--------------

When Symbolism
is Taken as Actual,
the Message
Remains Safely Hidden.

-------------- WORD ROOTS --------------

Manage (v.)

~1560s, probably from It. maneggiare "to handle,"
especially "to control a horse,"
ultimately from Latin noun manus
"hand" (see manual (adj.)).

Influenced by Fr. manège "horsemanship"
(earliest English sense was of handling horses),
which also was from Italian.
Extended to other objects or business from 1570s.

-------------- TRUE PRACTICE --------------

 

Horses go where
the Water is.
No Water, No Horses. 

Masons go where
Building is needed.
No Building. No Masons

 "A friend once described the danger,
in masonic practice,
of what he called ‘displacement activity’,
that is, engaging in activities
that divert us from the true aim.
Concentrating on the appearance of masonic practice
– rank, precedence, minor detail, hierarchy and structure –
may cause us to lose sight of what real Freemasonry is,
what Freemasonry can do,
what it surely must do in each one of us,
in order to be effective.
Some will say that this is too serious,
that it takes the fun out of Freemasonry,
but I promise you, the rewards are immense,
and they ensure that we will never again
need any constructs in our lives.
It can ensure that, in amongst the wood,
we will begin to see real trees,
and chart our progress
by the way we interpret each one of them.

"We should not be fooled.
We should mind the gap,
stop it becoming wider, try to bridge it,
to give our Craft a greater sense of its true aim,
and through that to find our own path to Truth."
--W. Bro. Julian Rees
PM of Kirby Lodge No. 2818, London
Past Junior Grand Deacon,
United Grand Lodge of England

-------------- GENTLE REMINDER --------------

♫ When you're happy or unhappy ♫ you're the cause <clap clap> ♫

♫ When you're happy or unhappy ♫ you're the cause <clap clap> ♫

♫ When you're happy or unhappy ♫ and you really want to own it ♫

♫ When you're happy or unhappy ♫ you're the cause <clap clap> ♫

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