The Fourth Little Pig

The Fourth Little Pig

...had a sense of entitlement, pur forth no effort, and expected to have his house built for him.

The Big Bad Wolf didn't huff or puff at all!  The exposed pig was entitled to be eaten.

Meaning of Masonry - W.L. Wilmshurst

Yet, there exists a large number of brethren who would willingly repair this obvious deficiency; brethren to whose natures Masonry, even in their more limited aspect of it, makes a profound appeal, and who feel their membership of the Craft to be a privilege which has brought them into the presence of something greater than they know, and that enshrines a purpose and that could unfold a message deeper than they at present realize.

W.L. Wilmshurst

The Meaning of Masonry

Meaning of Masonry - W.L. Wilmshurst

We meet in our Lodges regularly; we perform our ceremonial work and repeat our catechetical instruction-lectures night after night with a less or greater degree of intelligence and verbal perfection, and there our work ends, as though the ability to perform this work creditably were the be-all and the end-all of Masonic work.

Seldom or never do we employ our Lodge meetings for that purpose for which, quite as much as for ceremonial purposes, they were intended, viz.: for “expatiating on the mysteries of the Craft,” and perhaps our neglect to do so is because we have ourselves imperfectly realized what those mysteries are into which our Order was primarily formed to introduce us.

W.L. Wilmshurst

Founding Master • Lodge of the Living Stones

December 16th, 1927

Throw in the Trowel

Learn to use your working tools before "throwing in the trowel."

DaVinci - Labor

"Thou, O God, dost sell unto us all good things at the price of the labor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

DaVinci - Master

What are the qualifications required to earn the title "Master?"

DaVinci - Apprenticeship

Entered Apprentice-ships symbolize 7 years of apprentice study and work.

Some are able to accomplish this in less time.

But only when they put forth the effort to do the work.

Superfluous Divestments

If they become superfluous...

...they become divested.

How can you make sure that does not happen?

Jim Henson

"I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best."

- Jim Henson

Dead Parrot Masonry

He’s not pinin’! He’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed him to the perch he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!!

THIS IS AN

EX-PARROT!!

When a "Parrot Mason" finally understand the catechism he memorized...

Parrot Masonry

The South American Catechismal Macaw has the ability to repeat up to three complete posting lectures.

Unfortunately, as a bird, it cannot comprehend what it has memorized.

Will you be able to?