Building Builders!: Random Building Thoughts

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-01-18

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"I wanted to to find something in the Masters degree, to entitle it to be called, as it is called " sublime". Something not to be found elsewhere, but something inherited by Masonry from the ancient ages, and concealed in its symbols. It was like an awakening from a dream, to find it all unreal, to find my anticipations disappointed: and for a time I was strongly inclined to abandon masonry altogether and I did conclude to give its symbols no further thought.

Of some things that I saw and heard, no one could give me an explanation at all; and indeed, it did not seem ever to have occurred to some of those of whom I asked for light that they had any special signification. No one had thought that there was any special meaning in the sacred numbers, and the password, in the substitute word, or in certain phrases. And no one could resolve my doubts and difficulties.

Of course I can learn nothing in the Lodge. No one ever learns anything there, in regard to the meaning of the symbols, after he has received the degrees. If he desires to know more, which most masons do not, he must seek to find it in books"
-- Albert Pike, "Esoterica": Lesson Two

(Hat tip to Bro. Michael Stein!)

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For Further Light:

Building Free Men!

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"The difference between
a Ritualist and a Terrorist
is that you can negotiate
with a Terrorist."
-- Bro. Dale Imbleau

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Until you have Laid a Strong Foundation
and Built that House not Made by Hands,
you're Living an Unsupported Dream
Built by an Untrained Workman.

For Further Light:
The Foundation

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Freemasonic Ritual
is a Symbolic Road Map
expressing Allegorically
the Steps men must take
to Travel from Youth (Immaturity)
To Adulthood (Maturity)
and then to Age (Wisdom).

When you take the time
to Decode its Symbols and Legends,
you shall see its Direct Correlations
toward Life.
When you don't,
you might well remain chained
to a dark Cave's wall.

For Further Light:
Maxims

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I Truly Can't Believe
We Put This Guy
in the East!

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A Brother Asks:

When Questions
Go Unanswered

Why some Brothers
Stop Asking You Questions...

The following two exchanges* between Brothers
illustrates when questions are either really answered
and not really answered
by other Brothers based upon a verity of reasons.

It also illustrates why some Brothers
stop asking questions
because they realize all too soon
that they are not going to get them answered.

FILED UNDER:
Learn to LISTEN!

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Letter Perfect Memorization
Doesn't Prove you Know the Work.
It's only Proves you Possess the Blue Prints.

If You want to Know the Work,
You must Pick Up your Tools
And Toil Until you Experience
the Hardship and Splendor
that such Work Brings.

For Further Light:
The Purpose!

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