A Mason's Work

Brian
00:00

You'll see a lot of symbolism in the craft that speaks to duality. You'll hear it in conversations about the sun and the moon. You'll hear it in conversations about masonic pavement with the black and white checkerboard, and you'll hear that those are all united as well. So even though there are blacks and white squares in a, in a, in the pavement, for example, it still is one pavement. Same thing true with the, the celestial objects, right? They each represent a, either the masculine and feminine or what have you, but they all essentially together encompass the entirety of the experience. And so when you start to look at this duality and the conversations about it, I think it's interesting to, to evaluate your own perspectives when it comes to how you approach solving problems in your life. And so we often will eliminate the things that we think are negative or bad, and we will resent in others the things that, that we don't like ourselves.

Brian
01:07

But when you start to look at it in, in everything that we talk about, there is both freedom and fullness. There's a pers two different perspectives. And, and you need each, you need to be able to approach both the, the things that you might reject initially or the approaches you might reject and understand that there's a time and place for them. Easy, easy perspectives here would be creation and destruction, right? We often talk about ordering chaos, things of that nature. We often talk about like destruction as a negative force, and so that might be the black square on the pavement, but without destruction, you cannot have creation because if everything's kind of already built and already there, the opportunity to create new stuff isn't so in the same way that, you know, without creation, you can't have destruction, you can't break something down and what's component parts until it's been made.

Brian
02:13

So those things will chase each other forever. That positive and negative kind of duality, and it's in both of those that you find that there is a season for everything. When we start to look at the stuff in depth, you start to really start to look at your own behavior and go, what am I rejecting here? What am I walking away from? What, what have I done to create an sort of an architectural analytical approach that could benefit from an emotional kind of fullness approach and vice versa. When you start to cement all of these things together and really bring them together, you get a much more comprehensive way to solve problems in your day-to-day life. Not to

Brian
02:58

Suggest that this is easy, but that, that pavement reminds us in many ways that there is, there's always that option to go the other direction or to try a different approach, to try an emotional approach instead of an analytical or vice versa, to try a, maybe you're putting your care in the wrong spot and maybe you should care less about this and more about that. There is tons of sort of places where you can apply that pavement throughout your day-to-day life and get positive outcomes.

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