-------------- HOW? --------------
Who are the Masonic examples
in your life?
How do they exemplify
The Master's Word?
How Do You Exemplify
Those You Would Follow?
Please! Do tell!
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-------------- WHOA! --------------
"Religion" and "Religious"
are two different creatures
and should not be
Confused.
Freemasonry is not a Religion;
it is Religious organization.
There is but one Religious requirement
for joining Mainstream
Freemasonry.
That Religious requirement
is a "Belief in God".
Woe to those who confuses the two...
For Further Light:
CHALLENGE!
CHALLENGE!
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Just as the Points of the Compasses Represent
the Work
Goals of the 1st and 2nd Degree
– the Cultivation of the Heart and the
Head respectively –
by Extension,
the Left and Right Legs of the Square
Represent the Work actually Done
to Cultivate one’s Heart and Head
respectively.
When you have not yet done
this Cultivation Work upon
yourself,
but earnestly want to,
you can get a Leg up on It
by examining
to what Ritual alludes.
Better yet,
make it a Point to do the Work
that Transforms each side of you
from an Oblong Square to a Perfect
Square.
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of symbolic images and narratives
metaphorical of the possibilities and fulfillment
in a given culture at a given time.
Mythology is a metaphor.
God, angels, purgatory,
these are metaphors."
-- Joseph Campbell,
interviewed in the New York Times,
February 1985
Yes!
The map is not the territory
and everything placed upon the map
are
mere references.
And when you don't understand "metaphors",
you are
bound to and bound by the imagined references
upon these maps as if
these metaphors
actually exist as the symbols they represent!
-------------- YOUR WORK --------------
(Hat tip to Bro. Jason Eddy!)
-------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE --------------
A
Few Brothers Ask these Questions:
- On which side of the candidate
is the SD supposed to be
while conducting candidates around the Altar? - Why is this?
- And how
is all this justified
if no one is supposed to get between the WM
and the Altar during open lodge?
You
approach your WM for answers to thee questions that are backed by
Masonic teachings. The WM believes this to be an excellent learning
opportunity for both the Candidates and you.
He gives you the following tasks to complete and asks you to do so within 24 hours.
You agree to abide by his request.
YOUR TASK:
1) Write out responds to the Brothers questions providing rational and logical reasons to back them up.
2) Anticipate any objections and handle them as well.
3) Come up with series of Q&As that lead Candidates to the answer for themselves.
How do you go about your tasks
and rise to the challenge before you?
and rise to the challenge before you?
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