Post by boreades on Mar 4, 2022 1:22:04 GMT
For many years, I have been quietly bemused by 99% of my brethren. All of whom took their Second Degree and heard the Master say:
And yet those 99% are mostly attracted to the hidden mysteries of what might be on the Festive Board and how much wine they might enjoy.
Perhaps the one percent less attached to the corporeal realm have to follow their own paths. With a few rabbit holes and diversions, like day jobs and family lives. I have found, however, that a little meta-knowledge helps keep me on track. Like, for example, how we learn what we learn, as our own reality, not something consumed from media and/or instruction.
Just today, while creating a new website with some new tools for personal development and awareness, some words of George Spencer-Brown have resurfaced in a serendipitous manner, which I offer as a starter for this topic.
What say you?
"as a Craftsman, you are expected to make the liberal Arts and Sciences your future study, that you may the better be enabled to discharge your duties as a Mason and estimate the wonderful works of the Almighty". ... (you are) "permitted to extend" ... "researches into the hidden mysteries of Nature and Science."
And yet those 99% are mostly attracted to the hidden mysteries of what might be on the Festive Board and how much wine they might enjoy.
Perhaps the one percent less attached to the corporeal realm have to follow their own paths. With a few rabbit holes and diversions, like day jobs and family lives. I have found, however, that a little meta-knowledge helps keep me on track. Like, for example, how we learn what we learn, as our own reality, not something consumed from media and/or instruction.
Just today, while creating a new website with some new tools for personal development and awareness, some words of George Spencer-Brown have resurfaced in a serendipitous manner, which I offer as a starter for this topic.
To arrive at the simplest truth........requires years of contemplation. Not activity. Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know. And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set about it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are being continuously thrust upon them.
What say you?