Random Building Thoughts - 2022-12-28

  

-------------- BACON!! --------------

<snicker> Almost Everything
goes Better with Bacon!

ALMOST?!?!?

 

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

 

-------------- BE THE DIFFERENCE! --------------

FILED UNDER:

Be the Difference!

 

Because Being a Freemason
is simply not Enough!

For Further Light:
Why Draw any Distinction?

-------------- MEASURE --------------

 

When you do not apply your Working Tools,
you Build things with poor Measure. 

 

What problems have you caused by
improper, incomplete, or non-existent measure?

-------------- INABILITY --------------

 The Failure of our Leadership
to Deliver what we Expect
is Founded solely upon our Collective Inability
to Measure well the people we Promote and Elect;
so it is too with the Failure of our Organizations.

Who have you promoted
to your detriment?

 -------------- CRAFT -------------- 

CRAFT (n.) Old English cræft (West Saxon, Northumbrian), -creft (Kentish), originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cognates: Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, dexterity; art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led by late Old English to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling," also "something built or made." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English. 

 

CRAFT (v.) Old English cræftan "to exercise a craft, build," from the same source as craft (n.). Meaning "to make skillfully" is from early 15c., obsolete from 16c., but revived c. 1950s, largely in U.S. advertising and commercial senses. 

 

Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=craft

Special thanks to Bro. Nick Adair for inspiring this post.

-------------- DEEP --------------

When you Find Yourself,
Deep in Chip,
It's a Good Sign that you're Working,
Especially when those Chips
are Divested Vices and Superfluities.

What have you divested,
so far?

 

 -------------- POINT TO PONDER --------------

 Of the two Holy Saints John,
which was Christian?

What here do you not know?

 

 -------------- PILLARS --------------

 

What Dual Pillars
Have you Cultivated
Within Your Life? 

 

Your Answer Please?

-------------- QUIZ TIME --------------

Three Great Lights...
to what do they allude?

Well?

-------------- REMINDER --------------

-------------- FOUNDATIONS --------------

Only your BEST thoughts please.

-------------- VOICES --------------

GUILTY!!!

-------------- SOUND WARNING -------------- 

-------------- LEAD THEM -------------- 

 

 

 -------------- REVIEW -------------- 

 

"A must read new book!

"Not since the likes of
Born in Blood or The Hiram Key
has such a ground breaking
Origin of the Craft been explored.
Where previous authors and researchers
just barely brush upon the subject
or just mention it in passing,
Brother Nagy digs all the way into it
and with thorough and methodical research.
His book, The Craft Unmasked!,
is a fun ride and a fast read.
You will not be able to put this book down."
--  Brother Richard Zarth

 

Found Here:  

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

 

 -------------- END --------------  

 Be Well and Travel Light!

-- Coach Nagy ;-)

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Random Building Thoughts - 2022-12-27

 

-------------- MASONRY vs FREEMASONRY --------------

For More Light: 

The-coaches-coach-drawing-distinctions

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

The Mosaic Pavement!

-------------- DEC. 27th --------------

 Happy Saint John the Evangelist Day!

The Sun is Bound for Natural Reasons.
For What Reasons are you Bound?

 -------------- BE! --------------

Be Mirrors to the Light!
 Polish yourself with the Word.
Bear the Light with all your Might.
 Direct it toward your World.

-------------- BECOME! --------------

Yup! On my way for sure!

"There is nothing you can do
that's more important than being fulfilled.
You become a sign,
you become a signal,
transparent to transcendence;
in this way, you will find, live,
and become a realization
of your own personal myth."
-- Joseph Campbell,
Pathways to Bliss:
Mythology & Personal Transformation, p. 108

 -------------- CONTROL --------------

If you want
an unwaveringly predictable reaction:

Train!

If you want
an unyieldingly adaptive response:

Learn how to Learn!

Both are Valuable,
depending upon whom you want
in Control.

-------------- TRIVIAL CONCERNS --------------

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

Freemasons hear & see Solomon;
Masons hear & see Wisdom.

Freemasons hear & see King Hiram;
Masons hear & see Strength.

Freemasons hear & see Hiram Abiff;
Masons hear & see Beauty.

Freemasons hear & see Working Tools;
Masons hear & see Transformation.

Freemasons hear & see Obligation;
Masons hear & see Opportunity.

Freemasons hear & see Ritual;
Masons hear & see Direction.

Freemasons hear & see Members;
Masons hear & see Brothers.

Freemasons hear & see Lodge;
Masons hear & see Family.

 

What pairs do you hear & see?

For Further Light:

the-coaches-coach-freemasonry-masonry

 

-------------- PLUG --------------

 

 

For those moments
when your drive
to become better
over rides
your need to know.

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

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

 Be Well and Travel Light!

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Random Building Thoughts - 2022-12-26

 

-------------- HUMOR (OR NOT!) --------------

 

So THAT'S what the "G" stands for..

 

Could it be That Simple?

 

For Further Light:

For Further Light:

 The Letter "G"

-------------- GOAT --------------

A Brother Asks:
Where's the Goat?

A Brother Asks: Coach!
I keep on hearing jokes about goats from my Brothers. 
I've  looked high and low
and can't find any association with goats in ritual. 
Where's the goat?

Coach: Are there not parts of goats displayed
right on top of two officers' staffs[1]?

For Further Light:
A-brother-asks-wheres-goat 

 -------------- EDUCATION --------------

Education isn't Something you have.
It's Something that Actively has you.

-------------- PROMOTION --------------

 

Promotion of Freemasonry in any way
is antagonistic to its ends.

When the Light that leaks from behind its door
doesn't naturally Attract the man outside it,
then that door is not for him.
Inviting such a man across its threshold
is a precursor to much woe.

Promotion:
activity that supports or provides active encouragement
for the furtherance of a cause, venture, or aim.

 

Attraction:
the action or power of evoking
interest, pleasure, or liking
for someone or something.

 

a) a quality or feature of something or someone
that evokes interest, liking, or desire.

b) a thing or place that draws visitors
by providing something of interest or pleasure.

-------------- RUFFIANS --------------

Ruffianology 101: 

 

"Having little to no Patience for Cultivating
their own Legitimate Skills or Masterful Abilities,
Ruffians shall not Invest what must be Invested.
They shall make desperate attempts
to obtain what they believe is Valuable.
This behavior shall be demonstrated most prominently
in Dark Hours by their blatant disrespect of Authority,
especially should they obtain even the slightest
advantage or position of influence.
Consequentially, you shall know these Ruffians
by their calculating dismissal of Due Process,
rationalized disrespect for Legitimate Law
and selfishly indiscriminate application of Power." 

-- Volume 6 - The Building Better Builders Series 

 

Found Here:
http://www.coach.net/BuildingRuffish.htm

 -------------- MASTERY --------------

For Further Light:
a-brother-asks-where-are-masters

-------------- DEFINITION --------------

 

THEOLOGY

 

The study of God,
of God's relation
to the world

and of God's relation
to the Word

Sounds like Masonry to me!

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

 

THE ROAD TO MASTERY
(Part 1 of 4)

 -------------- MASTERY -------------- 

❤ ... MASTERY!!! ... ❤

 

  -------------- END --------------

 Be Well and Travel Light!

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Random Building Thoughts - 2022-12-25

 

-------------- THE WORD "FREEBORN" -------------- 

For Further Light:
Freeborn!

Enjoy!

 -------------- YAAARRRRR!!!!!!! --------------

 

 Aye! Me grogs been replaced wit eggnog,
ye sails be splattered with tinsel and lights,
a tree be in me captain's cabin
and me first mates wearing gift wrapping
and insisting to be unwrapped!
It must be Christmas!
YAAARRRRR!!!!!!!

-------------- BORN ANEW! --------------

  

And on the Third Day...

In ancient times, observers of the Skies saw clearly that the Sun was not Rising in the sky as high and as long as it did in previous days. The Shadows increased and Daylight diminished, almost appearing to Travel toward its grave. They knew too that at one point the Sun did eventually stop in its path and eventually climb higher into the Sky. The Keepers of Records knew from memory that this trend did reverse, but they were never sure if this would occur once again.

So each year, they measured the Shadows, noted when It appeared to stop and when the light appeared to be Born again. To assure the light was indeed Raising, they Grasped to measure the Shadows not once, not twice, but three times, noting each time if they were indeed shortening. And on the Third Day of Diminishing Shadows, they would proclaim to all that the Sun was most assuredly Reborn!

The next day they celebrated! What better Day to Celebrate another Son whose Arrival most assuredly Diminished the Shadows!

-------------- BEHOLD! --------------

"But when they heard from the King,
they went, and behold, that star
which they had seen in The East
went before them,
until it came
and stood over where
The Boy was."
-- Matthew 2:9

-------------- MERRY CHRISTMAS! --------------

-------------- HAPPY HOLIDAYS! --------------

May your Christmas Holiday Celebrations
be Unbelievably Super!

-------------- QUICK REVIEW --------------

 

The Craft Unmasked,
offers an insight into the 32 moralilty plays
that evolved into a very thought provoking fraternity. 

 

NOTICE:
Suitable & Fair Warnings

It is highly recommended
that you read through the entire book
before you draw any rash, superficial
and wholly unsupported conclusions.

-- Bro. Albert McClelland,
More Light In Masonry,
June 20, 2015

-------------- DINNER MATH --------------

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

 Be Well and Travel Light!

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