Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Friday, December 29, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-12-29

-------------- BE - DO - HAVE --------------

Didn't Plato and James the Just
say something like this as well?

-------------- R&P --------------

Religion and Politics
are Proscribed from Open Lodge,
not because they themselves
cause Disruptions and Disharmony
but because too few Brothers
have Mastered Civil Discourse
- one of the very core goals of the Trivium.

Masterful Brothers have no difficulty whatsoever
Respectfully Discussing Religion and Politics,
even when faced with
the Ignorant Disrespect of others.

On the other hand,
Brothers who wear titles
and who have not done the Work
to earn them
are one of the central reasons
such Proscriptions exist.

For Further Light:
Proscription!

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

It’s truly embarrassing
to know so many "Master Masons"
who don’t know their Zoroaster
from a Holy Ground.

-------------- WHERE'S YOUR ASHLAR? --------------

FILED UNDER: WHERE'S YOUR ASHLAR IN ALL THIS?

A Little Ashlar Info...

1) Rough Ashlars are roughly hewn but generally unworked Freestones. These are Profanes and newly Entered Apprentices who have yet to begin their Perfecting Work.

2) Common Ashlars are Rough Ashlars that are currently being worked upon. These are Apprentices (not to be confused with Entered Apprentices) who are doing their Perfecting Work.

3) Perfect Ashlars are Common Ashlars that are currently Suitable for the Builder's use. They contain flaws but none that would make them unsuitable for the Builder's use. These are Apprentices who have finished their Apprenticeship Work (not just the proficiencies but the Work pointed out within the degree) and newly Passed Fellow Crafts who have done their Perfecting Work but have yet to climb the stairs.

4) Raised Ashlars were Perfect Ashlars that were Raised to the level where they are ready to be positioned and cemented into that House not made by hand. These are Fellow Crafts who finished their Fellow Craft Work by climbing the stairs and who have Raised themselves by doing this climbing Work.

SO! Where's your Ashlar in all this?

-------------- AVOIDANCE --------------

The Ironic Aspect of Craft Practice
is how some Brothers Shun
the very Light they Seek
once they Decide that it doesn't Conform
with their Accepted Reality.

-------------- FEED THEM! --------------

Don't Feed those Sheep!
They'll Feed Themselves.
Feed those Future Lions!

-------------- HOLD BACKS --------------

False Illusions
hold back far too many men
from experiencing what the Craft
truly has to offer
and realizing their true potential.

-------------- CRIME --------------

<sarcasm engaged>
It's a terrible crime,
threatening someone's illusion.
</sarcasm engaged>

-------------- ON YOU! --------------

When you Realize
that what is before you is an Illusion,
you must also Realize that
it is on you to move past it
and then Make the Best of your Efforts
Regardless.

-------------- LIES --------------

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

"One cannot predict the next mythology
any more than one can predict tonight's dream;
for a mythology is not an ideology.
It is not something projected from the brain,
but something experienced from the heart."

Joseph Campbell,

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space.

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