Random Building Thoughts - 2024-01-03

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Ritual is a Rubik's Cube of Symbols
Requiring men to Grasp and Wrestle with it
until they eventually Form
Acceptable Patterns that Enlighten.
Many Patterns are Formed
but very few are Solid.

 Which Freemasonic Patterns have you wrestled with most and
what enlightenment have you grasped from your efforts?

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Candidates Entering the Society
usually have high hopes
of being surrounded by men
who have actually developed Life Masteries.

What they find
is a wide assortment of males
who have yet to master themselves,
much less the principles of the Craft.
(The Craft UNMASKED!, Chapter 2)

 For Further Light:
http://www.coach.net/BuildingBuilders.htm

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This is the Basis of "The Craft Unmasked!"
book's Theme and The Craft we Practice
within the Society of Free & Accepted Masons.

 For Further Light:
The Craft Perfected!

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We need a lot more people Who
Responsibly Assume Thinking,
and fewer of those Who
Irresponsibly Think Assumably.

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The Most Comforting Aspect
about Ruffians is that,
by their Own Behavior,
they shall Eventually get
what they Earned,
even if it is in the End.

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One of my mentors...

 

 "You become mature
when you become 

the authority for your own life.”
 -- Joseph Campbell

 

 

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Don't confuse "forgiveness" with "forgetfulness" and "re-Trusting". One can forgive offenses, but one would be foolish to forget offenses that go uncorrected and to re-trust an untrustworthy individual. 

 

Once someone has offended you, it is your responsibility to assure that an appropriate boundary is both Established and Maintained so that future offenses do not occur -- for your sake and for other's sake.

Forgiveness entails "clean up". It should never include:

 

1) continuing to place trust in a person who shows no signs of correcting offensive behavior, or

2) forgetting the character of such a person and setting yourself up for another offense.

 

To continue to trust someone who is untrustworthy is simply insane. This doesn't mean you cannot forgive the person for the offense. It simply means that forgiveness doesn't mean re-trusting. There is much more to it!

 

For Further Light:
a-brother-asks-forgiveness

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A group of candidates you are mentoring
are finding it difficult to believe
that murderers making every effort... 

 

1) to hide a dead body; and

2) to outrun their accountability 

 

...would deliberately "plant an acacia [sprig]
at the head of the grave,
in order to conceal it
so that the place may be known
should occasion hereafter require."

 

They insist that such an act
would actually draw attention to the grave
rather than conceal it.

Furthermore, they cannot understand
what occasion hereafter would be required.
Why would the ruffians
WANT to find the grave
when their very act of burying the body
was TO CONCEAL IT!?!?! 

 

You were at a loss for words
and they were disappointed.
The discourse ended shortly afterward,
to your mixed relief.

 

Fortunately, it did not end there.
Your lodge education committee chairman
overheard the discussion
and asked you to research the matter,
do a write up on your findings
and present it to the lodge within two weeks.
Realizing this would make you a better mentor,
you accept the challenge.

 

YOUR TASK:

 

1) Validate these candidate's observations.

2) Explain why the ruffians did what they did.

3) Explain what specific occasion hereafter
would require locating the grave.

 

What do you do?

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 Chroniclers Who are Heavily Biased
do not Report what they find;
they Report only what fully Supports
what they want you to see
and in such a way
as to Heavily Bias you.

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 Be Well and Travel Light!

-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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