A Brother Asks: Why does Masonry Address Emotions?
Coach: Masonry teaches us that people who get caught up in emotions (Passions and Desires) and who haven't learned to subdue (properly guide/direct) them toward proper ends, shall suffer needlessly -- and rightfully so!
Such people are "stuck" and, as it so happens, are in Pain because of it. They shall have no success leaving Emotions behind because they have yet to listen to what their Souls are telling -- often times screaming at -- them.
This pain is their soul beseeching them to listen to the Wisdom being offered! These people may try to fool themselves by summary dismissal attempts, but no one can leave behind their Soul and venture forth successfully. Their Travel becomes torturous.
There cannot ever be any true theology or philosophy without emotions. When you know what Emotions are and what they do for you, you shall agree with this most Fervently.
Masonry acknowledges this connection. It knows that there is no way to erect a spiritual building without a firm connection and firm foundation with one's soul!
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.
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
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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)
-------------- 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
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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.
