Saturday, September 2, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-02

 

 
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 For Further Light:

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Setting Your Plumb!
 
  -------------- ROAD MAPS! --------------  
 
  
When you Want Mastery, 
Stop Dogmatically Following 
unMasterful Crowds 
and Start Following Road Maps 
Provided by Informed
 and Achieving Brothers.
 
For Further Light:
 
 -------------- PROSCRIPTION --------------  
 
 
The END IN MIND for Masonic Work
 is for men to be MORE AWARE of 
Political and Religious issues, themes, trends and involvements, 
and NOT superficially either.
When you do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Blessing.
When you don't do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Curse.
What is that Work? 
What ritual directs us to do! 
And that ain't memorizing and repeating it back.
It's becoming Well-Informed & Masterfully Skilled 
in applying ourselves toward Temporal and Spiritual matters! 
This INCLUDES Politics & Religion!
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-------------- STRENGTHEN -------------- 
 
 
To Strengthen your Spiritual Grasp,
 Seek to Comprehend the Differences 
Between Forever and Eternity.
 
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I: What's Missing that Prevents Freemasonry 
from Being what It was Intended to Be?
R: It's VALUE behind the MEMBERSHIP. 
The Whole of its Membership is too focused on:
1) Putting on the PLAY,
2) Maintaining the Theater, and
3) Supporting the Prop Departments
and not enough Focused upon ...
1) Building the Actors' Hearts, Minds and Skills 
toward Living Better Lives OUTSIDE the Theater.
Men do not invest in a facade very long 
after they realize there's nothing backing it.
 
For Further Light:
Missing

 -------------- PASSIONS --------------  
 
 
Passions should be 
Fed, Fanned & Well-Directed; 
not Starved, Suffocated & Snuffed.
 
  -------------- WILL YOU! --------------  
 
 
Degrees Question Your Will

EA - Will you Prepare to Learn?
FC - Will you Learn How to Learn?
MM - Will you Learn and Teach?

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FILED UNDER: 
What's your priority?
 
I'd rather Work with one Brother 
who Seeks to Raise Himself, 
than an Entire Jurisdiction of men 
who want Nothing More 
than to have Others 
do the Raising for them. 
 
  -------------- TABLE LODGE --------------  
 
  
FILED UNDER: 
Recognizing Implications
 
  -------------- BREAKTHROUGHS! --------------  
 
  
Sometimes Our Most Significant Breakthroughs 
Occur when what we Depend upon 
is Missing or doesn't Hold Up 
to Professed Standards or Vigorous Use 
and we are Forced to Grapple 
with Inevitable Results.
 
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For Further Light:
Passions!

 -------------- FEED THEM!! --------------  
 
 
BEHOLD! 
 
Meeting Minutes 
and Treasurer's Reports Inform, 
But they do not Nurture 
the Souls of Builders. 
Starve Not Your Brothers 
Who Gather in Unity.
   
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  -------------- ENTERED! --------------
 
  
 Apprentice Wisdom

You cease being an "Entered" Apprentice 
ONLY when you start to do your Apprentice Work. 
Don't do the Work, 
be forever at the Gate.

For Further Light:
 
  -------------- HOW IS IT? --------------  
 
 
FILED UNDER: 
A Serious Conundrum!
 
If you are the Lodge's
 Example of Mastery, 
How is it that Men 
are not Fighting to Join 
your Lodge in Droves?
 
 -------------- MYTH --------------  
 

“Wherever the poetry of myth 
is interpreted as 
biography, history, or science,
 it is killed.”
― Joseph Campbell, 
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
 
This occurs far too often 
within the Fraternity, 
and without.
  
-------------- LIBERTY -------------- 
 
 
"When men yield up  
the privilege of thinking,  
the last shadow of liberty 
quits the horizon." 
— Thomas Paine, 1775.
 
  -------------- FRACK! --------------  
 
 
 As an Organization, 
we have for far too long 
Allowed the Activities of 
Craft Cowans and Ruffians 
to Frack our Masonic Watershed. 
 
 Is it any small wonder why 
many find our offered waters distasteful? 
 
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FILED UNDER: 
YAAARRRRR!!!!!!!
 
Logic - The Study of Arguments 
Pirates - Living ARGuments 
 
-------------- CHOICES --------------  

 
 -------------- WELL? -------------- 
   
 
Have you read this book? 
What did you get from reading it? 
What were your "take-aways"? 
Would you recommend it? 
If so, to whom? 

Let me know your thoughts.

 

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 Be Well and Travel Light!
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Friday, September 1, 2023

Random Building Thoughts - 2023-09-01


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 For Light:


For More Light:
 

For Further Light:

 
-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION -------------- 
 
 
-------------- ENOUGH SAID! -------------- 
 
 
 -------------- HUMOR -------------- 
 

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

My Journey in Masonry 
is Spiritual. 
I would not do It any other Way 
or for any other Reason. 
 
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------  

 
Hey! 
Didn't those Obligations say, 
"No Madmen or Fools!?!?!?" 
 
-------------- ALLEGORY--------------  
 

Every Brother 
can Only Develop Specific Skills 
Through His own 
Diligent Personal Investment.
 
This is Why the Word
Cannot be Handed over 
From One Man to Another.
 
For Further Light:
THE WORD
 
 -------------- INVESTMENTS? --------------  
 
  
When you want a better Grasp 
as to what's Most Important to you 
regarding Building yourself Better, 
check to see if you're looking for 
Further Light or More Glitter. 
 
What's the difference? 
 
The former demands Betterment Work 
earned by the sweat of your Brow 
and the investment of your Heart;
 the latter requires little to no true Brow Sweat
 and an investment from your wallet. 
 
Your investment tells you 
and the world 
where your priorities are.
 
 -------------- STEPS... --------------  
 
Steps Toward Builder Success!
 
1) When you're Serious about your Faith, you Work on your Foundation and you Build your Understanding only upon that Strength. 
 
2) When you have no clue what is Required, seek someone who does. 
 
3) When you know what's Required, hold yourself Accountable for doing what's Required.
 
4) When you find holding yourself Accountable difficult, find someone who can help you hold yourself Accountable and Empower them to help you face yourself, no matter what!
 
5) When in Doubt, Get a Coach that can Walk You Through the Steps and Empower them to DO SO!
 
 -------------- PASS... --------------  
 
 
Pass any still Burdened Brother 
and you encourage him to drown 
in waters no man should hazard. 
Just because it was done to you 
doesn't make it acceptable. 
Are you a perfect example 
of a disconnect 
between knowing better 
and behaving better? 
 
-------------- SOMETIMES -------------- 
 

Sometimes 
You Must Travel To Foreign Countries 
To Find Your True Self.

For Further Light:
 
-------------- PROSCRIPTION -------------- 
 
 
Know Your Steps: 
Beyond the 15th Step; 
The Word
(And the reason SHOULD be obvious.)

For Further Light:
 
-------------- RECALL --------------
 
FILED UNDER: 
Why there are so few earned Masters 
and so many bestowed misleading labels
 
Mastery is More 
Than Recalling a few lines in a Play 
of which you have 
only a Superficial Understanding.
 
Fur Further Light:

-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
""This is what Joyce called the monomyth: 
an archetypal story 
that springs from the collective unconscious. 
Its motifs can appear not only in myth and literature, 
but, if you are sensitive to it, 
in the working out of the plot of your own life. 
The basic story of the hero journey involves 
giving up where you are, 
going into the realm of adventure, 
coming to some kind of symbolically rendered realization, 
and then returning to the field of normal life."
-- Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss
 
re: "...and then returning to the field of normal life." 
 
And should you be so fortunate 
to make it to the top of the mountain, 
unless you come back down off it, 
you'll not live your life authentically.
 
-------------- INVEST! --------------  
 
  
 The Thought Door is ajar... 
Think Harder!
 
-------------- KNOW!!! -------------- 
 
 
Your Common Gavel 
will do you no good whatsoever 
if you don't know 
of what to divest from your Ashlar.
 
-------------- GOOD! -------------- 
 
  
Good Thoughts court our gray matter. 
Good Perceptions caress our souls. 
Good Writings hug our hearts and minds. 
Good Talks improve our wealth. 
 
-------------- YEP! -------------- 
    
 
If you want to know 
what my Building Better Builders Workshops are like, 
just read my FB Wall for 11 hours 
with a 10 minute break ever 50 minutes. 
 
That'll give you a good idea 
of what I provide to those who attend.
There's only one major difference. 
I'm there 
and I cover the same amount of material
 in 5.5 hours with Q&A included.
 
Ask anyone who attends,
 it ain't for wimps or wussies.

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