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Why is the north a place of darkness?

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Rapscallion
Premium Member
Please tell me what are these "hidden mysteries" are please. This is a sincere question. And please make it Barmey style for me. Cause I may already be searching for them and not know it. A few weeks ago we had a very good talk at lodge on the Golden Mean and how it related to life and Masonry...really got me thinking about strength and beauty and what they really mean.
I feel like I know you a little bit from reading your posts. I think you are searching for the hidden mysteries of science and nature. Actually I think most people are searching for them.

In attempting to answer your question I would like to propose that our thoughts, feelings, and actions are all inescapably related to each other. What we think affects what we feel and do. What we feel affects how we think and act. What we do affects how we think and what we feel. This explains why prayer works, why meditation works, why making a gratitude list works, and why getting off my butt on Saturday and mowing the lawn works. :) All that sounds pretty self explanatory. The reason this is a hidden mystery is that no one knows how deep it really goes. As a further example please read the linked article about how learning to play an instrument contributes to self mastery. https://nunomarinhomusic.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/self-regulation-becoming-your-own-master/
 

coachn

Coach John S. Nagy
Premium Member
One of the conundrums. We are told the lodge covers the entire universe. But we're only told that after the lodge is tiled within a small physical space. We are told to treat all well, but Brothers better.

I figure it means the room is small so our hearts are to be large.
But it makes perfect sense when you realize the "lodge" is not the building or the room. The Lodge is the men who gather to do Work.
 

Elexir

Registered User
I thought that was the work of the EA. And then we have the work of the FC - hidden mysteries of nature and science. And then the work of the MM is: make more MMs?

What I paraphrased is from the bylaws of the Swedish GL and where considerd a masonic secret up until around 2007.

Yes and no.
What the MM gives an FC when he becomes a new MM is simply more tools and a new prespective.
What the MM does with his tools is simply up to the person.
 

Elexir

Registered User
When the MM are formed up in the temple that extends from E to W and N to S and from the center of the Earth to the Heavens what they do is "simply up to the person"?

I rather hoped that MMs formed up in that vast temple performed work with the Sun, Moon and Stars

Yes, micro and macro working in tandem.
However, the question is how you use it.

You are refering to what a MM is, I refer to what he does and the goal.

Just becuse you have a pencil dont make you a a good writer just as being a MM dont make you a hardworking MM.
 

Warrior1256

Site Benefactor
Really ! ? How cool ! It's not in our ritual but those words are in our table lodge ceremony.
That's where we say it, as well. We hold an Agape each month immediately after our Lodge of Instruction.
We're currently doing it annually but dine after every meeting.... and generally after informally at rehearsal.... it's not just armies who March on their stomach
Great!
 

Ripcord22A

Site Benefactor
that could only be communicated by the three Grand Masters. They must have been busy flying around the planet to support all the great buildings.
Nope. Thats made up too. Allegory to teach us to always be searching ourselves for ways to improve. I mean if all 3 had the "secret" of a MM so did every other MM on the site. Why not just promote HABs 2nd in command and move out amd draw fire?

Sometimes I'm not sure if your trolling me or if you really take the things in our ritual literally?

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Bloke

Premium Member
Nope. Thats made up too. Allegory to teach us to always be searching ourselves for ways to improve. I mean if all 3 had the "secret" of a MM so did every other MM on the site. Why not just promote HABs 2nd in command and move out amd draw fire?

Sometimes I'm not sure if your trolling me or if you really take the things in our ritual literally?

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Real or fiction, the question remains why is the story told how it is....
 
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