Numbers

1 is the ultimate prime

2 is prime because it is inseparable from the base 10 math that 1+1, 2x1, or 2/1 all = 2

3 is the first non defacto prime. 
3 x 3 is 9

10 is the first double digit integer.
9 x 10 is 90

4 is the first non prime integer.
4 x 90 is 360

360 brings us to a circle

which proves a square.

Looking east

I will do all I can do to aid a falling brother. If that assistance should fail I will stand by my fallen brother. I will remember him in my daily devotions. If the occasion should occur that he should raise his hand and ask for help then I will grasp it by the Lions Paw and do as I can to raise him once again.

I do this as I know that if I begin to fall it would be done for me.

I would do this for if I was fallen, I know that the hand would still be there for me to grasp.

If I should fail I know my brothers would offer the same to my Wife and Children.

I do not need to question any of this for I have seen it when I knelt looking East

Epicurus

Is God willing to prevent Evil but unable?
Then he is not Omnipotent
Is He able but unwilling?
Then he is malevolent.
Is He both able and willing?
Then whence cometh Evil
Is He neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?

~Epicurus

My Answers:


In my belief God is certainly able to prevent evil. It is also my belief that God chooses not to prevent as to avoid interfering with the gift of choice given to us by God. By bestowing this gift the Deity has placed limits on intervention so that we might intervene on our own behalf. God need not prevent evil, we need only to choose to stop it ourselves. 

So God is able and unwilling yet not because of malevolence, rather because of Gods faith in his own creation

I believe in God. I have given a great deal of thought to the idea of describing God and I ended up deciding that if I choose to believe God exist, then trying to _Define_ God and the actions of Deity is to apply limits to God. 

I was so amazed at my audacity to attempt to place limitations on that which I believe to be, that I had to embrace the idea that my mind and consciousness was not capable of defining God. 

I can only accept the existence and believe. You now have my perspective on the existence of God. 

Moral and spiritual choices are mine as given to me by God. Just as Legal questions and choice is given to me by my fellow Man

Religion I leave to another discussion as it is dogma, tradition, and requirements of man in the purported service of God. Therefor it is not rooted in the will of God, spirituality, or faith.

Gratefull

I am very grateful for my officers and the members of this lodge who have made sure the light of masonry is tended to. It is not that they tended the flame when I am unable, it is as I am unable I see they have tended it all along.

There may be times we think that we alone feed the fire and keep the flame alive. I am fortunate to see how many others tend the flame of knowledge and keep it alive that I might find my way back home.

My Earth is Flat

My Earth is Flat.

Though I may traverse the sphere
The round planet is not my world
I am not defined by it's dimension

My Earth is Flat

I have not met a person that death will not take.
I have not met a person who is my better
I have not met a person that I am better than.

My Earth is Flat

We meet upon the level
We act upon the plumb
We live upon the Square.

My Earth is Flat

Change

 Nothing will ever change around you. Really you should not expect it to. Things will not change just because you are there or watching. Change requires energy, will, desire. Watching the world stay the same shows none of these. 

If you want to see change you must cause it, waiting for change only works for canyons and glaciers.

beginings

Many years ago I went to Scottish Rite Hospital for Children with my wife and girls. It wasn't my first time there. We went inside the clinic checked in and got an update from other families we had already met and talked about how life was going. We got Popcorn from Volunteers that years later I would learn were George and Kay Skinner. (Even if we didn't have the quarter they always made sure the girls had popcorn)
As the girls examined the Airship to see if anything had changed I went outside for a Smoke. I stood outside the sliding doors and I spotted a small rough pillar of granite with a side walk and small garden around it. I walked over and upon the polished surface at the top of the pillar was a Square and Compasses. I stood there looking at it and reading and finished my smoke.
I went back inside and sat down next to my wife and said "this is a Masonic Hospital"
She said, "Well, yeah. You didn't know that?"
I knew my grandfather and his father and a few more back were Masons but I had no clue what Scottish Rite was until then.
One of the Hardest things we ever did was to leave Scottish Rite Hospital We did it because we changed our lives and wanted to make space for other children who needed the services there more than we did. It was the only Hospital I ever looked forward to going to. they didn't just take care of my daughter they cared for all of us.
That moment lead me to seek out admission to the Masonic Lodge, and I have never looked back with any thing but affection upon the Brothers who took care of my child and my family when I could not.
I asked to be a Mason because of this, in return I was given the tools to make myself a better man and to help others in need. myself a better man and to help others in need.