Saturday, April 27, 2024

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-04-27

 

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

 
-------------- CHARACTER --------------    
 
 
Lodge is not a place; 
it's a mindset 
backed by sincere and heart-felt actions 
that keep us connected with our Brothers. 
 
-------------- NO TIME AT ALL! --------------  
 
 
Anyone who takes any time 
to actually think about Ritual 
soon understands it to be a road map 
pointing toward greater things. 
Like any road map
if you are unmotivated to use it for its true intention, 
with it you'll get nowhere in no time at all. 
 
-------------- MENUS --------------  
 
 
Investing all your time and energies
 in Worshiping Road Maps 
rather than enjoying the Terrains 
that these Road Maps represent, 
is akin to relying solely upon reading menus 
to provide to you your nutritional needs. 
You shall starve to death a confused soul either way. 
 
-------------- CHARACTER --------------  
 

When members cannot be civil 
toward those who were at one time members, 
then those uncivil members have 
failed to achieve 
the very objective for which they joined.
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
 
-------------- RITUALISM --------------  
 
"There is not a subject so little understood 
by even its own members as that of Freemasonry. 
It is not in the strict sense an order. 
Its purpose is more clearly defined 
when it is called a fraternity, a brotherhood, or an institution. 
It is certainly not a club. 
Ritualism is not Masonry. 
The ritual is the vehicle 
which conveys the sublime truths to the heart and mind. 
If the forms and ceremonies 
through which the candidate passes 
fail to lift him 
to higher conceptions of life, 
duty and charity, 
then they are mere sounding brass and tinkling cymbal." 
-- Anonymous 1974
 
-------------- THE CHALLENGE --------------  
 
  
It's the challenge of every generation 
to bring forth Maturity, 
at least enough 
to let the next generation know 
that it's their turn!  
 
  -------------- THE TASK -------------- 
 

The Task of Maturing 
is not a Burden 
one naturally takes upon oneself. 
Nature never demands this 
from any of Her creations. 
It is however a Burden
 that naturally enslaves 
should one not take it on.  
 
For Further Light:
Mature
 
-------------- QUESTIONS --------------  
 
  
Asking truly powerful questions 
tends to draw people in 
to things that they might not have considered before. 
They also tend to get them to forget 
that they lack the confidence to respond.
 
-------------- WHEN? --------------  
 
 
 
At What Moment 
Did You Start to Live 
The Sublime Principles 
You Professed at the Altar?
 
-------------- WHERE'S THE CEMENT? --------------  
 
 
 
 <sigh> It must be somewhere!!!!
(http://www.coach.net/BuildingCement.htm)
 
-------------- HUMOR TOO -------------- 


No! No! No! You've got that all wrong!
"Ride the Goat!" Not "Ride with the Goat!"
 
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