Twisted Rhetoric

Deliberate misuse of Grammar and Logic, will undoubtedly produce twisted Rhetoric.

Have you studied the Trivium enough to know the difference?

Sir Francis Bacon - Of Great Place

"For honor is, or should be, the place of virtue; and as in nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man’s self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed."

- Sir Francis Bacon

Of Great Place

Membership Retention

Real Masonic Secrets:

"Masonic Retention" comes from having newly obligated brothers see that the rest of the lodge is just as interested in them, as they are in Masonry.

Special Congratulations to Matanuksa Lodge No. 7's most newly obligated brethren.

We look forward to observing and assisting you with your Masonic travels and endeavors.

Revelation

Simply knowing the answers contains only superficial value.

Understanding the questions leads to a revelation.

Worshipful Gavel

worshipful (adj.)

Old English worðscip, wurðscip (Anglian), weorðscipe (West Saxon) "condition of being worthy, dignity, glory, distinction, honor, renown," from weorð "worthy" (see worth) + -scipe (see -ship). 

The original sense is preserved in the title worshipful "honorable" (c. 1300).

No wonder we give this guy a gavel...

Graphing Circle

If you envision your point within a circle to be on an "x-y" graph, you will see how your actions have both positive and negative effects.

Black Cube

A "black cube" is not something that should be case "lightly."

How can casting something dark help to maintain light?

Emblem of Innocence

If our apron is considered an
"Emblem of Innocence"
how does this apply to being
"The Badge of a Mason?"

Checkered Floor

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word  'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

- C.G. Jung

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