Fernando’s Masonic Experience

This is a message we all need to listen and understand…

“In the United States today we have in effect two governments…. We have the duly constituted Government…. Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.” –Rep. Wright Patman (D-TX)

We are preparing for the Masonic Week 2008 to be celebrated (as every year) on February 6 to 9 in Washington DC. There I hope to meet you to chat, go for a tourist ride, or visit a local Lodge.

There we find members of several Masonic Orients and Obediences, with neither close meetings nor rituals, in groups of diverse topics or purposes. In my case, I go to the annual meeting of the Knights of Freemasonry Universal, were we always have room for other volunteers who wish to work with us.

Many Prefer to Ignore

It is obvious that many opt for distractions with other less compromising options, with less risk to be criticized or marginalized by our leaders; but in that negotiation, we stop being or doing the best we can, in exchange for tranquility, tying our consciousness down.

Receiving our apparently daily doses of routine happiness, we get used to conform with what we know is wrong; but with our silence we have told it was fine. This ill tendency is what could be causing those emotional tensions that contribute to stress, which at the same time is the source of many diseases.

A few days before the Super Bowl, I heard through the radio that the major concern of the Administrators of Miami was [with the excess of visitors in the city] the water flow in the middle of the game, when most people use the bathroom; sounds funny, but they explained their care clearing the sewers, and how enough water will be provided, to only experience low pressure during those moments.

How could I imagine that instead of being concerned about medical attention or feeding poor children, they will give priority to the use of bathrooms during the football game intermission?
But we have to agree that we prefer enjoyable entertainments, maybe to dissipate the sorrows that no-one misses, that is why attention and money flows where less needed.

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Two Interesting Articles: Black, white Masons in South struggle with racial separation and Racism - Freemasonry

It is so hard for most of us to overcome our limitations that we keep quiet instead of confronting those enforcing obsolete laws. Additionally, we all need to keep boundaries somewhere to protect ourselves from unknown dangers. So where do we trace our boundaries? religion? race? national origin? sex?

Brothers -

http://www.freemasoninformation.com/bryce/apathy.htm

En compañia de mi compatriota e I:.H:. Jesse Leon,
a fines de Junio del 2006, visitando la G:.L:. del Cuba en Miami.

Stuburness and stereotypes facilitate quick reactions to take our decisions with little thought. Discrimination and intolerance help us to separate from whatever we consider negative. These attitudes are needed, even though they could cause pain to other people.

Bad feelings, like hate or despice, are signs that tell us where we could improve.