A man who sows doesn't always collect

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Karol Otis, excerpts from the work done in the ‘Babel Tower’ RSDiU's Lodge of Excellence

My eyes have blinded the bright sun in the blue sky. After a while I regained my sight and looked around. The awareness that I am at, so well known to me, the construction site clouded the vague, disturbing feeling that I truly don't remember how I got here. The hammering of hammers, the sound of works and the odor of freshly-helled wood soothed my senses and managed to dampen this unusual subcutaneous anxiety. I have more crucial things to do now – I thought. erstwhile again, I was assigned the mission of erecting the Temple. This time, the Commandery is built on the border of Brandenburg-Wielko Poland, where the Duke gave to our Order as many as 1000 hinds. According to tradition, a block of buildings was ordered to be erected on the plan of an extended rectangle with a narrow entrance to the west. The 2 cylindrical towers embedded in the corners of the structure symbolically mention to the Temple of Solomon and the columns of Jakin and Boaz. The semicircular domes crowning their constructions evoke memories of youth spent in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Amongst people there would be alien culture, heretic culture, and unfriendly land, and yet my heart so close. I was heading to the west entrance erstwhile a loud bang ripped me out of thought. It's 1 of the recently raised hosts that worked the granite squares that we utilized to build the brick substructure. The young man is besides busy working to halt him now, I said. I took a slow breath into the air, feeling the tide of soothing peace and a gentle tingling over my hands. With large ease, I evoked the desired state of head and looked with joy at the magnificent walls above me. The work of my Brothers was indeed excellent, many mastered almost all the secrets of craftsmanship, but there was something else that I discovered erstwhile I was in the East and what I secretly tried to translate in a narrow group. But do I give anything to my brethren? I'm just helping to figure out what they're already hiding. How hard it is to put these feelings into words. I effort to point out the direction of the journey, which all single step a man must yet take alone. I am discussing the teachings of which the sound is completely incomprehensible to those who, in the midst of the sound of thought, have not yet heard the silent whisper of the heart. How can I be silent? How can I keep silent erstwhile I see a brother looking for the truth? How can I be silent erstwhile I see an ignorant man who has seen a surviving soul? How can you keep quiet erstwhile individual lost finds themselves? erstwhile he thinks he's lost his mind, and for the first time, he's talked to you. Non nobis, Domine, non nobis. Sed nomini Tuo da gloriam.

The initiation to the next stages of the Scots Ritue, the Old and the Recognized is simply a amazing experience. BB:. and SS:., who were previously Freemulator Masters, have a ceremony that clearly shows them that the road, whose end they may have been looking for, is just beginning. The question is, what's keeping us on this road? What makes us travel despite our adversity? The first and most apparent answer is an oath. In the case of the Masters, there are many due to the fact that it is triple. It's sacred to people of honor. But to know that in moments of weakness people do not respect the words of others, let alone their own. Carlos Ruiz Zafon wrote: “Who doesn't know where he's going, never gets anywhereIt’s okay. ” Yet, the ritual rewards the already beaten way and the promises being kept while being a mandate of trust for the recently adopted Brother or Sister. For me it is simply a minute of manifestation of equality and brotherhood. The minute in which, in the past, strangers, who over time considered us to be authorities, friends or trustees, voluntarily reject external differences by sealing 1 spirit and suppressing ego. The second thing that can make us stay in our free-mulcan ways is the thought of a work that penetrates through the darkness of rituals like light through a black veil. Of course, all master understands the concept of work from the level of matter. If you look at the old English or American catechisms, all questions about officer functions are formulated as follows: What is your work there? all officer asks about Duty That is simply a work that is entered in the steps instructions. Most MM: performs any officer duties, makes efforts to make lodges and devotes his time to obedition. This remains expressis verbis included in the ritual.

Question. What are his duties?

Ref. Watch over the good of the Order and teach the workers their duties, reminding them that being their Master is equal to them in the face of Freemulation.[1]

The ritual besides combines work with the legend of Master Hiram, during the initiation we hear many warnings about unworthy aspirations, disregard for commitments and reckless treatment of tasks[2]. The concept of work appears in the ritual many times. At any point in the ceremony, 1 of the officers says:

Noble thoughts come from the heart and the best test stone of the work is the request of sacrifice[3].

This passage of the ritual may indicate that there is more to the frequently stressed concept of work than simply the conscientious execution of the duties of the office. If there's a secret in Freemulation, it's the secret of the said heart, gnosis cardios. The title sowing seems to be an obvious, rational work to work, but unexpectedly the harvest is already the domain of the heart. In the works of many well-known freelours I find confirmation of this thesis. Kirk MacNulty He claimed that the builders of Solomon's Temple went to the Central Chamber to receive their wages and were convinced that this remuneration would be appropriate and just. If the Central Chamber is understood as representing our soul, this symbol takes on an interesting context. It suggests that deep inside we believe that we will get what we deserve. According to MacNulty, this was 1 of the most crucial principles taught in masonry, according to which there is actual justice at the heart of things.
More importantly, this is besides the basis of individual freedom. If you find yourself in a situation you don't like, you can change it. If you don't like the wage you receive, work differently and you get a different salary. If you don't like the crops you harvest, start sowing another seeds. Many people don't see the planet that way. It's easier to blame others for failing. Look for guilt beyond yourself. This may be appropriate, but giving besides much attention to others deprives us of our cause. By blaming others for our situation, we quit our freedom. Taking work for the payment we accept, for the circumstances we find ourselves in, we besides give ourselves the strength and the ability to change it.[4]. The specified acceptance of the work on the 1 hand builds our interior freedom and on the other, inspires us to work honestly.
In the catechisms of 1867 B:. Robert Macoy He exhorts us to conscientiously do all duty, to do from the heart, as it were done for God, not for men, to never quit in doing good, for if we endure, in due time we shall reap[5]. It is simply a direct link between the sense of work coming from the heart, but besides a hidden informing that not everyone will experience this award. possibly he should not even anticipate it due to the fact that honest work does not service to build an ego and flows out of the soul. Writing of higher degrees it is hard not to mention B:. Alberta Pike’a, 1 of RSDiU's biggest reformers, who wrote: Sow in the morning and don't halt sowing in the evening due to the fact that you don't know which grain will sprout, and if they're all just as good. Grow your seed, no substance who collects it. Do what is right and adequate and find reward and compensation[6]. Whatever man sows, that's what he will reap. all thought, all feeling, all action, all event, all passing hour, all breath contributes to how we are judged. Moreover, Pike, like Macoy, claimed that the 1 who works well is worthy of payment, but nobler is the 1 who sows with the cognition that others will reap.[7]. The ambition of an honest Mason is not to anticipate payment in the same life[8]. This last conviction leaves no illusions about the spiritual, internal, moral, or simply the human nature of freemulative duties. A later version of akin views is presented by Polish historian and freelour Emil Kip. 1 origin of inspiration for this author was besides the legend of Master Hiram. The death of this ancient architect did not put an end to his actual existence, due to the fact that in his life he was able to make works in which inactive the noblest parts of his personality remain. Referring to this legend, Emil Kipa expressed the belief that permanent traces of cultural activity are the best way to prolong his own existence[9]. Stefan Drzewieski was another Polish freelour who realized this idea. He described his teaching work as an activity of building wonderful buildings of surviving stones that can supply the teacher with immortality. In the life and works of the student, the master himself and his works will survive[10]. 1 more point is worth mentioning here. During any free-mulcer ceremonies, the participants take on the character of Hiram. A common translation of specified an component of the ritual is that Master Hiram is reborn in a fresh master to proceed his work. This poetic explanation refers to the work to remember, to an thought which in a second symbolic degree is presented in the form of a generation and although essential for the transmission of the free-mular tradition is something completely different from the first archetypes to which it refers. It is hard to defy the impression that, somewhere in the beginning of this ritual, his creators may have been motivated by the desire to carry out a real experience of abrasion of death applied, for example, in the rites of transition of the primary tribes that Mircea Eliade wrote about. From a rational point of view, the work to transmit cognition and memory is perfectly clear, but knowing the legend of Hirama in the context of the first archetypes specified as Osiris of the Egyptians, Mithra of the Persians, Attis Frigs, Adonis Fenicjan or Dionysus of the Greeks, requires the beginning of the heart and the endurance of interior death[11]. That's how we open up to free-mulcer secrets. Only what man experiences in divinity is alive; what he believes in is dead. Freelural rituals and ceremonies are carried out to experience and experience them. Otherwise, all we request to do is read the text itself.

What many people attract to masonry is hidden under the layer of symbolic humanity, universalism, and syncretism. These are things that combine alternatively of dividing for a change. Hence, the truths contained in free-mulcer rituals will easy be found in another traditions and philosophies. It is no different in this case. In his Golden Book, regulation Helena Petrovna Bławatska writes: “Work for them present and they'll work for you tomorrow. It is from the bud of self-denial that the sweet fruit of the steady Liberation is born [...] Point out the way – even though you are weak, even though you are lost among the crowd – as the evening star shows the way to those who walk their way in darkness“[12]. Bławatska's words are a call to work for others. They are a call for action despite deficiency of strength or deficiency of religion in their own capabilities. After all, they are a call for ruthless acceptance of the work to sow due to the fact that we never know erstwhile the seed will fall on fertile soil. From Bławatska not far from here is Buddhism and Karma's laws, according to which we ourselves are liable for how we guide our lives and how we act we are able to influence the future of ourselves and others. The concept of karma so involves taking work for how we respond to what happens to us. Not out of fear of being punished for “bad behavior”, but out of a deep knowing that we ourselves are creating a “little hell” all day: entering into conflicts with our loved ones, cultivating anger, grief, jealousy or discontent[13] W Tibetan Book of Life and Dying There is simply a passage that I consider peculiarly eloquent of the Buddhist approach to sowing:

The Lord made me the instrument of his peace, where hatred is,
Let me sow love,
where there is harm – forgiveness,
where there is uncertainty - faith,
where there is despair - hope,
where there is darkness – light,
Where there is sadness - joy.
O Sir, don't let me look.
support but support
I wouldn't be looking for understanding,
But he understood
I'm not looking for love.
But he did.
For erstwhile we give, we are
gifted erstwhile we forgive,
is forgiven and dying
We are born to eternal life[14].

Let's get back to Freemauling at the end. In his contemporary work entitled The Secrets of Masons B: Tadeusz Cegielski emphasizes that it is the work of all Christian to search to transform himself from dead to surviving spiritual stone. From flesh to spirit.[15] The notion of "living stones" [lapides vivi] re-emerges. To this day many Freelours believe that the legend of Master Hiram, killed in the Temple, a martyr of faithfulness, is simply a symbolic mention to the Order of the mediocre Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon. They saw an crucial intermediary between east and Western cultures. Who knows what the Templars found in the Holy Land today? Treasures, Forbidden Gospels, or possibly simply interior improvement and acceptance of the diversity they felt obliged to pass on? Is present different? Does tolerance and openness not break the walls of spiritual ossification? Do we not make internally working together in the apparent diversity of origin, views and experiences? Masoneria is no longer an operatic art, but simply a speculative idea, until each brother, reading the mystery of his symbols and considering the beautiful allegories contained in the ritual, does not realize that he himself incorporates the keys and plans that have so long lost for his Craftsman, and that if he always wants to know the masonry, he must open her door with a key made of the first metals of his being.[16]. At the end we are material beings, and with this substance we are constantly fighting, full of passion, passion and doubt. We do not live in a perfect world, but we come from specified a world, and we must strive to do so. Therefore, it is not almost perfect performance, but almost perfect commitment. It's a subtle difference that allows you to see the boundary between substance and spirit. That's the difference between work and duty.

As I entered the Temple, I pushed large wooden gates. Their burden made the iron hinges unpleasantly creaked with the late recovered calm. I was delighted to see the interior of the Temple again. Thirteen metres above the head was an ascetic sacral rib vault. The light falling through the windows added light to the massive structure. Another negative thought slipped in my eyes. I know this building will last forever. Does the feeling I have in my heart have akin strength? Can I convey my findings or even inspire others to my own search? The interior of the building was empty, there were inactive fewer scaffoldings under the walls, next to it prepared to lift the board, a working table and any tools. In the rays of the sun, countless particles of dust danced majestically. With the eyes of imagination, I can see the rows of benches filled with Braćami and the joy of a common service. An unexpected jerk is pulling me out of my head. Someone's pushing me to stand close the furniture. He puts on his clothes and beats hard. I don't realize the questions. All I hear is screaming and I feel it. due to the pain and the squeaking in my ears, I can't get my head together. My consciousness can barely be reached by shouting sentences. The attacker demands a secret and then hits with a metre line. I'm falling, but I'm trying to run. On the another hand, another blow falls. Again chaos, the environment spins erstwhile I'm trying to take out my oppressors. Blind people ask questions I can't answer. The Word of the Masters is not a physical treasure, but an interior fact which everyone finds himself. Another attack knocks me to the right knee. After a while, the 3rd of the attackers appears. He brutally grabs my hair and lifts my hammer up. I close my eyes exhausted and wait for the end. The sounds are silent and the expected pain is not coming. The temple is empty again, though it's inactive spinning. East – West – North – South merge into one. The level is moving distant from my feet. I'm no longer wearing a work coat, I'm girded by a coat of lamb skin, white robes adorned by a red cross. Above the head there is no ceiling – only shining stars, colorful nebulas and night. Now I understand. I'm on my way. I've been wandering around for a while, and the fact is, I'm long gone. My heart goes back to the stars and it will proceed there. Sow Brothers and Sisters who are inactive working. Build the temple of mankind continually, for the ability to transform darkness into light by force of will alone is our truly divine gift and our only duty. Who sows does not always collect; but the seed that falls into the ground is never lost or feeds me or you, what does it matter?

Books:

Rite A:.U:.T:.O:.S:.A:.G:.
The Secret Identity of Freemasons, W. Kirk MacNulty, The Cornerstone Society 2007
The Masonic Manual, Robert Macoy, Revised edition of fresh York, 1867
Morals and Dogma, Alber Pike, 1871
Freemasonry philosophy, Andrzej Nowicki, Trialog 2022
Esoteric Freemasonry. Rituals & Practices for a Deeper Understanding, Jean-Louis de Biasi, Llewellyn Publications 2018
Voice of Silence, H.P. Blavatsky, Rozekruis Persians 2014
Gnoza Jung, Stephan A. Hoeller, Okultura 2022
Tibetan Book of Life and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche, Bertelsmann Media 2001
Secrets of the Masons. First degree of elimination. Tadeusz Cegielski Omnipress 1992
Spiritual Path, Gregory David Roberts, Margins 2022
Masonic Symbolism of the 3rd Millennium, Irène Mainguy, Wyd. Trialog 2020
Bloodborn: The Forgotten Secrets of Masonry, John J. Robinson, Wyd. Al Fine 1995

Websites:

https://citations.ouest-france.fr/citation-jules-paul-tardivel/uns-sont-appeles-commencer-oeuvre-43382.html, 29.04.2023
https://basiatworek.pl/who-seed-this-gather-plony-o-what-walks-with-law-karmy/, 05.05.2023
https://archive.org/stream/The.Lost.Keys.Of.Masonry.Manly.P.Hall.1923/ebook_The.Lost.Keys.Of.Masonry.Manly.P.Hall.1923_djvu.txt, 05.05.2023

[1]RSDIU ritual

[2]Ibid. p. 24

[3]Ibid., p. 29

[4]The Secret Identity of Freemasons, W. Kirk MacNulty, summertime Conference 2 July 2007 The Cornerstone Society

[5]The Masonic Manual, Robert Macoy, Revised edition of fresh York, 1867.

[6]Morals and Dogma, Alber Pike, 1871, p. 113

[7]Ibid., p. 322

[8]Ibid., p. 516

[9]Masonry Philosophy, Andrzej Nowicki, Trialog 2022, p. 324

[10]Ibid., 334

[11]Esoteric Freemasonry. Rituals & Practices for a Deeper Understanding, Jean-Louis de Biasi, Llewellyn, p.137

[12]Voice of Silence, H.P. Blavatsky, Rozekruis Persians 2014, p. 42