Monday, August 29, 2022

Random Building Thoughts - 2022-08-29

 

-------------- HUMOR --------------  
 
 
A Demanding Job for Sure!

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

 -------------- SMILE! --------------  
 
 
There's Something Very Special 
About the Warm Smile
 of Masonic Regularity.
 
-------------- WISDOM -------------- 
 
 
Master's Word Wisdom
Words are not necessarily manifested 
by the use of characters 
as much as they are 
manifested by the Character of Users.
 
-------------- FLOATERS-------------- 
 

When you don't 
Stir Your Masonic Pot, 
you'll not get anything In Depth 
and end up with nothing 
but Floaters.
 
-------------- KNOW THEM! -------------- 
 
 
 Know Your Steps: 
The First Three of Fifteen 
-- 
Titles 
& Results of Work 
--
(EA/Strength; 
FC/Wisdom; 
MM Beauty)

For Further Light: 

-------------- MAKING MASONS! --------------
 
 
 SOYLENT BLUE
 
MAKING MASONS 
OUT OF GOOD MEN 
SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
"And just as in the past
each civilization was the vehicle 
of its own mythology,
developing in character
as its myth became progressively
interpreted, analyzed, and elucidated
by its leading minds,
 so in this modern world
––where the application of science
to the fields of practical life
has now dissolved all cultural horizons,
so that no separate civilization can ever develop again––
each individual 
is the center of a mythology 
of his own,
of which his own intelligible character
 is the Incarnate God,
 so to say,
whom his empirically questing consciousness is to find.
The aphorism of Delphi,
'Know thyself,'
 is the motto.
 
And not Rome, not Mecca, not Jerusalem, Sinai, or Benares,
but each and every 'thou' on earth
is the center of this world,
in the sense of that formula
just quoted from the twelfth-century Book of the Twenty-four Philosophers,
of God as 'an intelligible sphere,
whose center is everywhere.'"

-- Joseph Campbell,
Creative Mythology
 (Vol. IV of The Masks of God), p. 36

 
-------------- PRIORITIES --------------  
 
 
When your Usual Vocation 
isn't also Providing Service, 
Your Time Management Priorities 
Have Yet to Be Worked Well Upon.
 
-------------- CEMENT! -------------- 
 
 
 The Trowel is a Working Tool, 
and it's near next to useless 
for anything other than stabbing other Ruffians 
unless the Apprentice learns 
how to make Cement 
from his Working Materials.
 
For Further Light:
 
-------------- WHINE... -------------- 
 
 
Until the Craft as a whole 
Demand from themselves 
what they Overtly Espouse 
within Symbolic Lodge Rituals, 
the Fraternity shall covertly remain
a dimly lit shell 
filled with Undeveloped Souls 
who Whine about Superfluities 
while Consciously Choosing to Ignore 
the Obvious.
 
-------------- WELL? -------------- 
   

"What are you doing 
that is nourishing 
to your soul today?"
-- Bro. Timothy Hogan 

 
-------------- END --------------

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Random Building Thoughts - 2022-08-28

 

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

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

Apprentass
 
A Brother Who has Failed 
to Circumscribe and Subdue Himself Accordingly, 
no Matter What his Bestowed Title.
 
 -------------- FOCUS!!! --------------  
 
 
The more that you get Distracted 
by the Needs of the Organization,
 the less that you will be Attracted to 
What you Joined for.
 
-------------- PATHS -------------- 
 
 
"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain,
all leading in the same direction,
so it doesn't matter which path you take.
The only one wasting time is the one
who runs around and around the mountain,
telling everyone else that their path is wrong."
~ Hindu Teaching
Artist: Unknown
 
-------------- ASSIST THEM! -------------- 
 
 
"By helping others to find their path,
 it brings your own into focus."
-- Bro RJ Gleason 
 
-------------- AT A GLANCE --------------
 
 
 
 Yup! I truly look forward 
to speaking 
with people in 3019!
 
-------------- MYTH --------------  
 
“There's nothing militant about Jesus. 
I don't read anything like that 
in any of the gospels.
 Peter drew his sword 
and cut off the servant's ear,
 and Jesus said, 
"Put back thy sword, Peter." 
But Peter has had his sword out 
and at work ever since.”
Joseph Campbell,  
The Power of Myth 
 
-------------- LIGHT THEM UP! --------------  
 

Make Every Effort 
to Light the Path of Others 
and you'll also Light your own!  
Light the path for Many 
and you'll eventually be without Shadow. 

-------------- DO THE WORK! -------------- 
 
 
 The Reality of Travel
 is Painfully Simply:
Don't do the Work 
& you Remain Forever Caged.
 
-------------- MASONOMICS -------------- 
 
 
 A Set of Agreed Upon 
and Terribly Practiced Principles 
that Keeps Lodges in 
Perpetual Financial Stress
 
-------------- BETRAY -------------- 
 
 
 
Why do you insist upon telling everyone 
that you're a Master Mason?
 A Lion doesn't have to tell any one what it is. 
Its very looks betray it. 
 
-------------- TEMPERANCE -------------- 
    
 
Never let your confidence 
be stronger than 
the toilet paper with which you 
handle your issues.
 
-------------- FIND IT! -------------- 
 

Freemasons are Taught 
To Accept Substitutes 
For The Real Thing.
Masons are Unsatisfied With Substitutes 
and Are Internally Driven 
To Seek and Find 
The Real Thing!
 
An all too common experience
 for far too many members.

-------------- END -------------- 

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