I visited a Lodge in the Philippines last week. Their stated meeting was 3 hours long, and 75% of it was Masonic Education.They had two speakers, one of them a PM who presented his own writing, the other was the District Lecturer, who presentated a power point lecture of curriculum provided directly by their Grand Lodge. I was extremely impressed with the level of education at their meeting. I feel 100% that Masonry would not be in a decline if we implemented these practices in our jurisdictions.
You do a great job re Masonic Education, thanks From The Quarries!!! Most UK lodges leave it to the individual, although we often have lectures, especially at Past Masters Lodges. There are often books you can buy or printed lectures, or Coronati journals, and of course the Freemasonry magazine to get stuck into, but really there's no time like now, to unpick the rituals, and learn something so much more, or just get the pencil/pen out, ruler and compass, and get drawing, on our metaphysical tracing boards! Sacred Geometry and understanding the Temple is so sadly underrated. IAO brothers 👍
@20:40 The anarchist Freemasons, of which there have been quite a few in history, would probably wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. One should not confuse abstinence of the polls for political or societal apathy. 🙂
One thing we must all know, mason and none mason alike, is that in the historic past, before the 20th century and WW2, and masons in Germany placed in death camps, but especially in the pre Victorian Era is that, physical rank was based upon knowledge of the degrees, their hidden meanings, and our reflection with our own mundane living lives, experience, turning that into wisdom. In that, masons only ascended the degrees, because they were fluent and understood them fully, if you did not, you did not pass or be raised to a higher degree, until you attained, through the test of your highers, higher degrees, and therefore rank. Sadly today, and it's been this 'Waye' for quite a few decades, masons now find their way to physical higher ranks, without that essential knowledge, experience, reflection, and therefore wisdom. That is why the Spiritual Lodge exists, you may be low or high in rank, yet higher in spiritual rank, neither match up any more, and that is a true travesty. Yes, it never matched up even in the 18th century fully, as you know, it's not what you know, it's who you know, but today this is what hurting our Order so much more than the past, and it has got worse in some countries over the last few decades so much more, people after power, and not understanding with wisdom, power is pain, without the initiates we die, and we see bullying and power trip masons, in far too many lodges, upset the initiates, without those who act in such a way, realising they are killing us slowly. But for those who stay, move lodges, or become a master mason, never give up, for the Supreme Being sees all and everything, and those who have been cheated, shall be shown more than those who defiled the Order for their own ends. IAO brothers, never stop learning, reflecting with experience, and make Wisdom, especially self acquired wisdom and self gnosis the Goal, for the Supreme Being sees it in us all, and even Freemasonry, isn't the only path, it was inspired or ascended from ancient paths, and many paths in the modern world, sprang from our Order, so never let go of what you wished to be part of, find your path, and keep going, for the World is Without End, especially if we are speaking spiritually or soulistically, or as The One. See you in the Chamber of Reflection, never ever give in, each and every seeker, is worth more than Gold, Vitriol indeed, go to the depths, and bring your truth back, for the Truth is YOU 💖
I mean what bull did Vitruvious have you learn, yep the 108 secret, we're all Divine Beings, but really, hidden in plain sight, we can easily square a circle, with four right angles, if we look at an old style watch: like the 9 o'clock toast! Think 3am 9am 3pm and 9pm, we have four right angles which form a square, of the circle of a 12 hour watch. It's that easy, but that in plain sight, most don't realise. But the important part is 6am and 6pm, for we must all act in balance, and we must all be on the level, so remember who you are, and what world you are conscious of in every and any part of your existence, for you must be both whole, above and below, below and above, squared yet quartered, yet essentially, BALANCED X
I really enjoy listing to your educational videos, just watching them became more difficult for me as my eyes get worse from lots of computer work and screen time with all kinds of other content. I am listening more to ebooks and podcasts nowadays. It would be so easy to take the audio tracks of your videos and put them on your Spotify channel. The videos are nice and still not helpful to understand the content. Your voice is entertaining enough.
Thanks for that. I'm working on setting up podcasts bit by bit. I've made a start here: fromthequarries.podbean.com/ I'd love to know what you think. I'll be putting more effort into it over the Christmas period. Feedback gratefully accepted.
@@FromtheQuarries Awesome! Podbeans seems to be a good platform. Maybe it's even possible to also link it to Spotify or other platforms. But at least this format helps me to focus more on what you say instead of getting distracted by the pictures. Thanks for that!
@@austropop1970 Thanks. I'll be working on getting Spotify and Apple Play access during the Christmas period. I'll have a couple of weeks off work to figure it all out 😊
I have tried several times to leave a comment, but the topic is so important that I cannot express my thoughts in a few words, without capturing the dialogues here. Then there was the "Community" discussion, with the very pertinent comment of the distinguished @husqrok. Last but not least, there were also the very realistic issues and conclusions drawn after that Opinion Poll... All these three elements are somehow related to each other and I don't think we can treat them superficially. Then I thought if there was a possibility that I could send you a larger material somewhere, in which I could express my opinion much more concisely than answering here in a few words, especially since I will also try to bring some concrete proposals.
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I visited a Lodge in the Philippines last week. Their stated meeting was 3 hours long, and 75% of it was Masonic Education.They had two speakers, one of them a PM who presented his own writing, the other was the District Lecturer, who presentated a power point lecture of curriculum provided directly by their Grand Lodge.
I was extremely impressed with the level of education at their meeting. I feel 100% that Masonry would not be in a decline if we implemented these practices in our jurisdictions.
You do a great job re Masonic Education, thanks From The Quarries!!! Most UK lodges leave it to the individual, although we often have lectures, especially at Past Masters Lodges. There are often books you can buy or printed lectures, or Coronati journals, and of course the Freemasonry magazine to get stuck into, but really there's no time like now, to unpick the rituals, and learn something so much more, or just get the pencil/pen out, ruler and compass, and get drawing, on our metaphysical tracing boards! Sacred Geometry and understanding the Temple is so sadly underrated. IAO brothers 👍
@20:40 The anarchist Freemasons, of which there have been quite a few in history, would probably wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. One should not confuse abstinence of the polls for political or societal apathy. 🙂
Thanks my Brother.
Ah, this is a massive subject to address.
Oh yes - I found it interesting (and quite sad) that the lecture is 100 years old, but I didn't need to change a word of it!
Amen 😢@@FromtheQuarries
@SebastianS39 🙏 "lord you gave me a mountain"
☝️🤎🙏 excellent video.. brother maynard over in the good old USA, on the scottish rite channel is also doing great work. 👍
Thanks. I enjoy Bro Maynard's work a lot.
One thing we must all know, mason and none mason alike, is that in the historic past, before the 20th century and WW2, and masons in Germany placed in death camps, but especially in the pre Victorian Era is that, physical rank was based upon knowledge of the degrees, their hidden meanings, and our reflection with our own mundane living lives, experience, turning that into wisdom. In that, masons only ascended the degrees, because they were fluent and understood them fully, if you did not, you did not pass or be raised to a higher degree, until you attained, through the test of your highers, higher degrees, and therefore rank. Sadly today, and it's been this 'Waye' for quite a few decades, masons now find their way to physical higher ranks, without that essential knowledge, experience, reflection, and therefore wisdom. That is why the Spiritual Lodge exists, you may be low or high in rank, yet higher in spiritual rank, neither match up any more, and that is a true travesty. Yes, it never matched up even in the 18th century fully, as you know, it's not what you know, it's who you know, but today this is what hurting our Order so much more than the past, and it has got worse in some countries over the last few decades so much more, people after power, and not understanding with wisdom, power is pain, without the initiates we die, and we see bullying and power trip masons, in far too many lodges, upset the initiates, without those who act in such a way, realising they are killing us slowly. But for those who stay, move lodges, or become a master mason, never give up, for the Supreme Being sees all and everything, and those who have been cheated, shall be shown more than those who defiled the Order for their own ends. IAO brothers, never stop learning, reflecting with experience, and make Wisdom, especially self acquired wisdom and self gnosis the Goal, for the Supreme Being sees it in us all, and even Freemasonry, isn't the only path, it was inspired or ascended from ancient paths, and many paths in the modern world, sprang from our Order, so never let go of what you wished to be part of, find your path, and keep going, for the World is Without End, especially if we are speaking spiritually or soulistically, or as The One. See you in the Chamber of Reflection, never ever give in, each and every seeker, is worth more than Gold, Vitriol indeed, go to the depths, and bring your truth back, for the Truth is YOU 💖
Wow.....the Masons around here need a new GM.
I mean what bull did Vitruvious have you learn, yep the 108 secret, we're all Divine Beings, but really, hidden in plain sight, we can easily square a circle, with four right angles, if we look at an old style watch: like the 9 o'clock toast! Think 3am 9am 3pm and 9pm, we have four right angles which form a square, of the circle of a 12 hour watch. It's that easy, but that in plain sight, most don't realise. But the important part is 6am and 6pm, for we must all act in balance, and we must all be on the level, so remember who you are, and what world you are conscious of in every and any part of your existence, for you must be both whole, above and below, below and above, squared yet quartered, yet essentially, BALANCED X
Israel Viñas
I really enjoy listing to your educational videos, just watching them became more difficult for me as my eyes get worse from lots of computer work and screen time with all kinds of other content.
I am listening more to ebooks and podcasts nowadays. It would be so easy to take the audio tracks of your videos and put them on your Spotify channel. The videos are nice and still not helpful to understand the content. Your voice is entertaining enough.
Thanks for that. I'm working on setting up podcasts bit by bit. I've made a start here: fromthequarries.podbean.com/ I'd love to know what you think. I'll be putting more effort into it over the Christmas period. Feedback gratefully accepted.
@@FromtheQuarries Awesome! Podbeans seems to be a good platform. Maybe it's even possible to also link it to Spotify or other platforms. But at least this format helps me to focus more on what you say instead of getting distracted by the pictures. Thanks for that!
@@austropop1970 Thanks. I'll be working on getting Spotify and Apple Play access during the Christmas period. I'll have a couple of weeks off work to figure it all out 😊
I have tried several times to leave a comment, but the topic is so important that I cannot express my thoughts in a few words, without capturing the dialogues here. Then there was the "Community" discussion, with the very pertinent comment of the distinguished @husqrok. Last but not least, there were also the very realistic issues and conclusions drawn after that Opinion Poll... All these three elements are somehow related to each other and I don't think we can treat them superficially. Then I thought if there was a possibility that I could send you a larger material somewhere, in which I could express my opinion much more concisely than answering here in a few words, especially since I will also try to bring some concrete proposals.
I can be reached at fromthequarries@gmail.com. Would love to communicate with you more expansively.