For the past few weeks, the Sacred Flame has been reignited in me to re-address my Friary Work. I've been writing a lot of material and emails and general musings, all about the Friary Work. And as I've been doing that, I've been thinking a lot about the language I use. As a magician, the words have meaning, and choosing them carefully affects the outcome of the process in which I'm engaged. That got me thinking about the word 'Work'. In English, the word work can have some bad connotations: Something you are doing that you must do, something that takes a great deal of effort, labor, something you do in exchange for payment or gain. And we know language shapes the way we think. The following video gives examples of that. Perhaps my efforts in the Friary realm should not be considered work, but perhaps the Latin source for the term, Opus. We are engaged in the Magnum Opus, the Great Work, after all. And Opus has totally different connotations in ...
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2. Freemasons can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time.
3. Freemasons can live for up to a week without a head.
4. Freemasons are the only king without a moustache on the standard pack of cards.
5. Until the 1960s, Freemasons were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
6. There are 336 dimples on Freemasons.
7. The international dialling code for Freemasons is 672!
8. If you lie on your back with your legs stretched it is impossible to sink in Freemasons!
9. Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by Freemasons.
10. To check whether Freemasons are safe to eat, drop them in a bowl of water; rotten Freemasons will sink, and fresh Freemasons will float.