Random Building Thoughts - 2021-11-02

 

 

-------------- RHETORIC -------------- 

Study Figures of Speech

so you don't end up

slipping up.

 

-------------- ALUMNI MEMBERS --------------  

 

 How many do you know?

 

  -------------- INSPIRATION --------------  

  

Never Underestimate the Influence 

of a Few Good Lights 

to Change the Face of Darkness

 

 Influence!!!!

 -------------- WORD PLAY --------------  

  

 

Ye!

 

-------------- MIGHTY! --------------  

  

That was 

a mighty tall erection 

for that time too.

 -------------- CHALLENGE --------------  

 

COACH'S CHALLENGE:

 

You're tasked by your Grand Lodge Masonic Education Committee with showing Apprentices, who are learning their proficiencies, the connection between the four cardinal virtues and Plato's writings.

 

1) What Platonic writings discuss/reveal these four virtues 

and what translated words are commonly used to convey them?

 

2) What is the fifth virtue that Plato discusses/reveals in his writings 

and what are the names of these writings?

 

3) How does this fifth virtue support the three theological virtues 

and how does it make each of them possible?

 

-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  

 

 

Men who never Complete Apprentice Work 

become as Crippled Butterflies; 

their Wings Never Experience Flight.

 

Do the Work;

don't become a cripple.

  

-------------- READ! --------------  

 

 

KEEP CALM 

and 

READ YOUR TRESTLE BOARD

 

But first, 

learn how to READ!  

 

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  

 

A Sad Aspect of Craft Reality: 

 

That Men Driven to Mature, 

shall be Driven away 

from that which Cannot Mature them 

Masterfully.

 

Don't drive them away!

 

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

Understand!

-------------- BECOME --------------  

 

  

Raising a Male in one day 

is like getting nine women pregnant 

to deliver in one month. 

Some things simply can't 

Mature that Fast.

 

Don't rush them through!

 

-------------- BECOME --------------  

 

"One does not become enlightened 

by imagining figures of light, 

but by making the darkness 

conscious."

-- Carl Jung

 

Be conscious! 

 

-------------- RIGHT! --------------  

 

 

 I: Why do men Become Masons?
R: It's the Right Angle...

 

Have those angles!

 

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

 

Learn!

 

 -------------- NEW BOOK RELEASE! -------------- 

YES!!!!!!

IT'S OFFICIAL! 

MY 16th BOOK 

IS NOW BEING PRINTED!

 

EXPECT SHIPMENTS
BY END-OF-WEEK!!!

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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 - 2021-11-01

-------------- QUALITY --------------  

  

What Quality Work 

can you Expect 

from a Brother whose only Claim to Fame 

was that he Remembered what he was Told 

but didn't Understand any of it?

 

What are you doing to assure 

the candidates in your charge

UNDERSTAND what they are asked

 to remember?

 

A Strong Lodge 

is not made up of Parrots! 

 

For Further Light:

Parroting

 

 

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  

  

There are some Deeply Spiritual men 

who shall never ever step foot inside 

any religion based facility 

who Desire to Commune with other Seekers 

of like Mind and Spirit. 

For them there is 

and shall always be 

Freemasonry.

 

It's a sure bet 

that you are friends 

with at least one of them.

 -------------- FOCI --------------  

Focus Upon Your Ashlar!

 

I recommend that you not try to change anything about:

 

1) The Lodge

2) Any other Brother

3) The Lodge System

4) Freemasonry as a whole 

or even in part

 

If you do not heed this advice, you shall find  ongoing frustration should you try to change any of these. You shall also foster a dependence upon something that shall keep you chained.

 

I highly recommend though that you change

 the way that you approach Freemasonry 

and once this is done, 

focus your efforts upon your own Ashlar 

and Working and Practicing everything 

that the first Three Degrees directs men toward. 

 

Once you do this successfully, 

you'll find that you have indeed become 

an independent Traveling man 

and you shall attract all sorts of others 

who have done the same. 

 

Once you do, 

you can meet as you please 

and there shall be nothing 

holding you back when you do. 

You'll also find that you shall attract others 

who want what you have 

and who are willing to Work to have the same skills 

and knowledge that you have 

for themselves.

 

Be the Example!

LEAD! 

 

For Further Light: 

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

 

-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  

 

The Difference between 

Stumbling Stones and Stepping Stones 

is the Level of Your Approach!

What stones do you 

have in your life?

 

How do you view them?

 

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  

 

  

What is a Pardes to some

 is a home turf to others.

 

What's your home turf like?

 

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

FILED UNDER:  

Candidates should be told this!

 

"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. 

By participating in the ritual,

 you are participating in the myth. 

And since myth 

is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, 

by participating in a ritual, 

participating in the myth, 

you are being, as it were, 

put in accord with that wisdom, 

which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. 

Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life."

-- Joseph Campbell, 

interviewed by Michael Toms, 

New Dimensions Radio

-------------- RUSHED? --------------  

 

 

The Way some Brothers 

Brag about how Fast they were Raised 

should also Raise Questions 

as to What was their Rush.

 

What's the rush

 all about anyway? 

  

 -------------- WHAT DO YOU GIVE? --------------  

 

 

Intolerance and Disharmony 

are Bred and Harbored 

by Those who Demand Respect 

but Refuse to Give it. 

Tolerance is Rooted in What you Value Most. 

When you Value Respect and Harmony,

you shall give it.

 

For Further Light:

Tolerance

 

-------------- RIP 007 --------------  

 

 

Odd that I posted this two years ago today. 

RIP Dear 007

 

 -------------- NEW BOOK RELEASE! -------------- 

YES!!!!!!

IT'S OFFICIAL! 

MY 16th BOOK 

IS NOW BEING PRINTED!

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 - 2021-10-31

 

-------------- POSTS --------------  

 

MY MASONIC POSTS
Aren't they AWESOME!

   

 -------------- REMEMBER --------------  

 When you show up 

for Grand Lodge Communications 

and see so many men dressed up 

like Masons and Knights, 

First Remember that it is Not Halloween 

and Secondly don't Hand out Trick or Treats.

 

Be Safe!

Keep the treats 

& candy at home!!!!

 

-------------- RHETORIC --------------  

 

 

 Satire: 

 

To Poke Fun 

when the Irony 

is Still Hot.

 

Study your Rhetoric!

 

-------------- CHARACTER --------------  

 

 

You can Boast all you want 

about with what you are associated, 

but until your Association 

actually makes you Better,

you're just a Boaster.

 

How are you better

by your association?  

 

-------------- MYTH --------------  

 

 "Mythologies present games to play: 

how to make believe you’re doing thus and so. 

Ultimately, through the game, 

you experience that positive thing 

which is the experience of being-in-being, 

of living meaningfully. 

That’s the first function of a mythology, 

to evoke in the individual 

a sense of grateful affirmative awe 

before the monstrous mystery that is existence."
– Joseph Campbell
Pathways to Bliss (p. 6 )

-------------- DELUSION--------------  

 

 
...and those liars 

who seek to rule!

 

 ...And the truth 

shall set you free...

 

-------------- SECRETS --------------  

 

 

For Further Light:

Secrets 

 

Know them?

 

-------------- GRAMMAR, LOGIC, RHETORIC --------------  

 

 

Splendid!

 

 -------------- KEEP CALM! --------------  

  

 

KEEP CALM 

and 

PUT DOWN 

THE SETTING MAUL

 

  -------------- GHOULS --------------  

 

Ghouls dig up long dead issues, 

drag them out of the grave 

and place them before you to feast upon 

while energetically urging you to do the same.

Know any?

 

(Happy Halloween!)

 

-------------- END --------------

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

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