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I would like a clarification on this point. Are you referring to the words spoken, where the emphasis is placed, the accompanying gestures? I am not sure to what you are referring.
I have a developed an outlook on life which has served me very well for many years, it goes like this: "Anytime I am blaming someone else, I am wrong".
The beauty of this idea is that if something is my fault, I can fix it.
I try to remember that speaking while waiting for someone else to...
Well said Brother. While I am not an education officer, I am chairman of the membership committee. I find that pointing in the right direction, providing support, and answering questions works very well at keeping Masons interested in attending Lodge as well.
OK. I read the article, and I read the responses. My reaction was agree, agree, agree agree. I especially liked Daryls comment that their needs to be "a culture of shaping and fitting living stones". Of course I have slightly modified Daryls comment, I have removed the word "we". In the 14...
Actually, you don't have to believe anything that you do not want to believe. One of the principles upon which Masonry is founded is Liberty, which at it's core is the right of each man to believe what he wants to believe. The greater mystery to me is why a man would choose such a belief.
1. What would happen if you died today? If you believe that you have a Spirit, where would it go?
Perhaps the spirit was never "mine" anymore than the sunlight which falls upon me is "mine". Perhaps spirit is energy. When I unplug a light the electrical energy does not "Go" anywhere, it simply...
Well, maybe I am a big dummy, but I had trouble understanding it. I agree with the ideas that it contained, I just had trouble relating them to my life in a real and meaningful way. Perhaps I am being to literal.
I noticed in your post that you refer to the very informative site run by Paul Bessel. I too have referred to this site often. Several months ago I emailed a question to Paul and received the rather curious reply that he could not answer my question because he "was no longer active in...
Even though my father and grandfather were Masons, I delayed my application to the Lodge for decades. The reason was that I had heard Masons express the thought that they would ballot against a man based on his race. From what my father had taught me about Masonry, as well as what I knew...
You can find a brief masonic biography of Kipling here: http://www.masonicdictionary.com/kipling.html
Or for a more complete biography you can go to the Philalethes site here: http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/kipling.html
Kipling writes: "I was Secretary for some years of the Lodge of...
Just today I was researching Brother Rudyard Kipling so that I could give his Masonic biography along with one of his poems in Lodge tonight.
This is what he writes of his Lodge experience: "I was Secretary for some years of the Lodge of Hope and Perseverance, No. 782, E.C., Lahore, English...