Booker T. Washington - Atlanta Compromise

"There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the fullest growth of the Negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating, encouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen. Effort or means so invested will pay a thousand per cent interest. These efforts will be twice blessed—blessing him that gives and him that takes. There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable:

The laws of changeless justice bind

oppressor with oppressed;

And close as sin and suffering joined

we march to fate abreast..."

- Booker T. Washington

1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech

Virtue in Individual Action

"All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination.  There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective."

- William Ellery Channing

Long Range Plan

Worshipful Master Tip:

This is what can happen if you don't make a long-range plan for your lodge.

Herd Mentality

Worshipful Master Tip:

You cannot expect that if you "herd" people, they will not have a "herd" mentality.

Masonic Agenda

What kind of things do you currently have on your Masonic agenda?

Can you prioritize these items?

Are any of them about how to "make good men better?"

Jung - Psychic Development

"I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self

There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre.

This insight gave me stability, and gradually my inner peace returned.”

- C.G. Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Circumambulation One

If you are asked a question, such as:

"What is the purpose of circumambulation?"

And your answer is:

"To walk in a circle."

This is considered a "surface level" answer, and you need to dig deeper.

Worshipful Master Tip

Worshipful Master Tip:

"Anyone who shouts out a prompt or correction from the sideline, without being asked, gets to sit in that chair for the rest of the evening."