Random Building Thoughts - 2023-11-12

 

  -------------- ALLEGORY! ---------------  

 

For Further Light:  

Why Allegory?

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

 

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

 

For Further Light:
GOAT!

  -------------- DO THE WORK! ---------------

 

For Further Light:

Work! 

 

  -------------- TEASER --------------- 

 

 
Chapter XIII - The First Freemason
 
Found here: http://www.coach.net/TCU.htm    

 

 -------------- ORDER! ---------------

 

 

 

-------------- JUST DO IT! ---------------  

 

 

  -------------- DIRECTION ---------------

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-brother-asks-masonry-vs-freemasonry.html

  -------------- INSIGHT ---------------

Without laying a strong heart foundation,
studying the 7 liberal arts and sciences
will  only bring you knowledge;
it will not bring you wisdom

  -------------- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ---------------            

“Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous behaviors.
It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy.

Why?

Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present
over something that has already taken place,
and no amount of guilt can ever change history.”
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

---------------------------------

This is where the good Dr. (God rest his soul) and I part ways.

Guilt was never about changing history. It was always about helping us recognize when we are called to change our ways into the future if we are to honor what we know to be past wrongful behavior.

Guilt is an emotion that tells us that we have transgressed a value we hold dear which was a past action that requires present amends and it keeps us focused upon that past action's correction. This means it is a message to us sent bu us in the form of a specific pattern in our energy and that makes it very useful when we use it to make corrections.

Guilt doesn't immobilize anyone. If anything, it tells us that we must mobilize our energy and direct that energy toward corrective behavior.

There is a down side to guilt though. When a guilt trip is put upon us, we are being coerced by someone else's values to suffer unnecessarily for a transgression that someone else believes is important and we take that on as our own OR the other person is holding us to account for an action that they will never allow us to make amends for. In either case, these are toxic situations that require use to examine what we truly value in that relationship, because it is truly no longer about the transgression. It is about the leverage we give to the other person. Either way, it's no longer about the guilt itself, but how the guilt can be used to make us suffer rather than make amends. 

Once recognized for what a guilt trip actually is, we must be the ones who change regardless of resistance. The manipulators want things to continue unchanged for they have the advantage if all things remain the same. 

It's our refusal to change that keeps us stuck!

 

For Further Light: Found Here!

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IS PRINTED 

& BEING SHIPPED!

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is available.

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if you would like to reserve a copy

 for your collections.

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if you want to inform others

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on your reading?

 

  -------------- END --------------

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Random Building Thoughts - 2022-11-13

 

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

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

FOR FURTHER LIGHT:
PENALTIES!

  -------------- COACH'S CHALLENGE --------------- 

  A BROTHER ASKS YOU:  

I am researching York Rite
and the rituals used by the symbolic degrees of York Rite.
I have found much information on

Preston, Webb, and others but nothing on Duncan and his ritual.
The only information on the internet is that a Malcolm C Duncan wrote Duncan' ritual circa 1866.
No information about Duncan.
Can you help me or direct me to sources that may help me?

YOUR CHALLENGE:

1) Identify sources that provide
biographical information on "Malcolm C Duncan".
2) Provide an outline of his background.
3) Share this information with your Brothers.

 

-------------- INSIGHTS ---------------    

  When your Performance Zone, 

your Ability Zone 

and your Comfort Zone 

are Unified with all present 

and all in agreement, 

you've Raised and Positioned yourself 

for Further growth.

  -------------- BRO. MACKEY ---------------    

 “How is the history of Freemasonry to be written,
so that the narrative shall win the respect of its enemies ,
and secure the assent and approbation of its friends?
In the first place,
we must begin by a strict definition of the word Masonry.
If we make it synonymous with Freemasonry,
then must we confine ourselves closely to the events
that are connected with the Institution in its present form and organization. …
… No greater honor could accrue to any man
than that of having been the founder
of a new school of Masonic history,
in which the fictions
and loose statements of former writers
would be rejected,
and in which the rule would be adopted

that has been laid down as a vital maxim
of all inductive science,
— in words that have been chosen as his motto
by a recent powerful investigator of historical truth:
'Not to exceed and not to fall short of facts —
not to add and not to take away.
To state the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth.'"
– Bro. Albert C. Mackey 33°
(History of Freemasonry;
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry,
1917 edition)

  -------------- TEMPERANCE ---------------    

    -------------- WELL? ---------------    

 

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

         -------------- GL AL MEMORIES 2019 ---------------      

                  -------------- WARNING ---------------          

          

           -------------- MYTHOLOGY ---------------      

         

"The function of myth is to put us in sync
—with ourselves, with our social group,
and with the environment in which we live.

"One of the most interesting
and simple ways
to get this message
is from the mythologies of the Navaho.
Every single detail of the desert
in which they live has been deified,
and the land has become a holy land
because it is revelatory of mythological entities.
When you recognize the mythological aspect of Mother Nature,
you have turned nature itself in to an icon,
into a holy picture,
so that wherever you go,
you’re getting the message that the divine power
is working for you.

"Modern culture has desanctified our landscape
and we think that to go to the holy land
we have to go to Jerusalem.
The Navaho would say,
' This is it, and you’re it.' "
-- Joseph Campbell,
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, p.19

  -------------- BOOK #16 NOW RELEASED! -------------- 

JUST IN CASE YOU 

DIDN'T HEAR THE GOOD NEWS!
 

MY 16th BOOK 

IS NOW PRINTED 

& BEING SHIPPED!

The Craft Mastered!  

will be available sometime late this week.

PLEASE put your pre-orders in now 

if you would like to reserve a first edition copy

 for your collections.

You can pre-order it here:

http://www.coach.net/TCM.htm

Also, please share the link 

if you want to inform others

of its availability.

Thank you in advance!

Coach Nagy

 

Are you all caught up 

on your reading?

 

  -------------- END --------------

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

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Random Building Thoughts - 2022-11-12

 

  -------------- ALLEGORY! ---------------  

 

For Further Light:  

Why Allegory?

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

 

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

 

For Further Light:
GOAT!

  -------------- DO THE WORK! ---------------

 

For Further Light:

Work! 

 

  -------------- TEASER --------------- 

 

 
Chapter XIII - The First Freemason
 
Found here: http://www.coach.net/TCU.htm    

 

 -------------- ORDER! ---------------

 

 

 

-------------- JUST DO IT! ---------------  

 

 

  -------------- DIRECTION ---------------

For Further Light:
https://buildinghiram.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-brother-asks-masonry-vs-freemasonry.html

  -------------- INSIGHT ---------------

Without laying a strong heart foundation,
studying the 7 liberal arts and sciences
will  only bring you knowledge;
it will not bring you wisdom

  -------------- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ---------------            

“Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous behaviors. It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy.

Why?

Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present over something that has already taken place, and no amount of guilt can ever change history.”
--Dr. Wayne Dyer

---------------------------------

This is where the good Dr. (God rest his soul) and I part ways.

Guilt was never about changing history. It was always about helping us recognize when we are called to change our ways into the future if we are to honor what we know to be past wrongful behavior.

Guilt is an emotion that tells us that we have transgressed a value we hold dear which was a past action that requires present amends and it keeps us focused upon that past action's correction. This means it is a message to us sent bu us in the form of a specific pattern in our energy and that makes it very useful when we use it to make corrections.

Guilt doesn't immobilize anyone. If anything, it tells us that we must mobilize our energy and direct that energy toward corrective behavior.

There is a down side to guilt though. When a guilt trip is put upon us, we are being coerced by someone else's values to suffer unnecessarily for a transgression that someone else believes is important and we take that on as our own OR the other person is holding us to account for an action that they will never allow us to make amends for. In either case, these are toxic situations that require use to examine what we truly value in that relationship, because it is truly no longer about the transgression. It is about the leverage we give to the other person. Either way, it's no longer about the guilt itself, but how the guilt can be used to make us suffer rather than make amends. 

Once recognized for what a guilt trip actually is, we must be the ones who change regardless of resistance. The manipulators want things to continue unchanged for they have the advantage if all things remain the same. 

It's our refusal to change that keeps us stuck!

 

For Further Light: Found Here!

  -------------- BOOK #16 NOW RELEASED! -------------- 

JUST IN CASE YOU 

DIDN'T HEAR THE GOOD NEWS!
 

MY 16th BOOK 

IS NOW PRINTED 

& BEING SHIPPED!

The Craft Mastered! 

will be available sometime late this week.

PLEASE put your pre-orders in now 

if you would like to reserve a first edition copy

 for your collections.

You can pre-order it here:

http://www.coach.net/TCM.htm

Also, please share the link 

if you want to inform others

of its availability.

Thank you in advance!

Coach Nagy

 

Are you all caught up 

on your reading?

  -------------- END --------------

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

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