Sunday, March 3, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2024-03-03

 

 -------------- EXPERIENCE -------------- 
 
 
Honoring Fully your Obligations 
makes you a Mason. 
Using Them to Build Masterfully 
is an entirely different Level of Reality 
that places Life-Threatening Demands 
upon your Time, Morality and Ends. 
 
Of course, 
when you're a Master, 
you already know this 
from firsthand Experience. 

-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------

 

For Further Light:
The Lost Word Acid Test

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

Some operating systems are immune to improvement.

  -------------- PSA --------------

 
 "The mind,
 once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, 
never returns to its original size."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
"...to that Undiscovered Country, 
from whose Bourn no Traveler returns." 
-- Wm. Shakespeare 
 
Do the Work, get the Results!
 
 -------------- STRIVE! --------------
 

"Masonry.
The only place you strive
for a speculative education!" 

 -- Bro. Nick Adair

   -------------- MYTH --------------


"The only way you can talk about this great tide 
in which you’re a participant
 is as Schopenhauer did: 
the universe is a dream dreamed 
by a single dreamer 
where all the dream characters
 dream too."
-- A Joseph Campbell Companion:
 Reflections on the Art of Living
 
This theme is brilliantly illustrated 
by the children's tale: RARG (see attached video)
 
 
 "We are having experiences all the time 
which may on occasion render some sense of this, 
a little intuition of where your bliss is. 
Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. 
You have to learn to recognize your own depth …

"The way to find out about your happiness
is to keep your mind on those moments
when you feel most happy,
when you really are happy
— not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy.

"This requires a little bit of self-analysis.
What is it that makes you happy?
Stay with it, no matter what people tell you.
This is what I call “following your bliss.”

-- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,
with Bill Moyers

Following your Bliss requires you to Travel.

  -------------- FANTASTIC! -------------- 

 

Freemasonry! 

Fantastic in Near Unbelievable Ways!

 -------------- LOGIC --------------

 
 -------------- BEHOLD! --------------
 
 
Behold, 
how bad and how unpleasant it is 
for brethren to dwell together 
in discord!
 
  -------------- DEALING --------------
 
 
When You're Up to Your Ankles in Guano, 
You're No Longer Dealing with Rubbish.
 
-------------- THINKING ACTOR! -------------- 
 
 
The first, or Entered Apprentice degree of Masonry, 
is intended, symbolically, to represent 
the entrance of man into the world,
 in which he is afterwards to become 
(Page 51 - General Ahiman Rezon)
 
-------------- DIG! --------------   
 
 
When you dig down deep enough,
 you might justly find that
 your greatest weakness 
was merely an excellent cover
 for your greatest Strength, 
terribly and ignorantly 
misunderstood and misapplied! 
Seek the Light! 
Dig! Uncover! Discover!
 
  -------------- END --------------   

 Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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