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aedifico42| Corporate Masonry…

Posted at: 10:00 am

There’s this funny little phenomena which continues to re-surface once every few years in Masonry.  You probably recognize it in your jurisdiction.

Corporate Masonry.

It is a solution to a non-existent problem promoted by men who don’t understand that we are not in the business of business.  Things like ‘effective communication strategies’ and ’synergistic leadership’ are all great if you have a room full of corporate slaves focused on their particular brand of widget. 

We are not widgets.

Business models do not translate well to Freemasonry.  We are about personal relationships which do not benefit the bottom line of some company.  We are about developing true lifelong learning and teaching relationships where philosophy and esoterica breed interest and curiosity.  No profit motives, thank you very much.

Good intentions.  I will give that.  Businessmen who are successful have a great deal to offer to our Craft, in certain ways.  But when somebody starts telling me about how to keep your cheese from being moved or which step to success they are working on today, I cringe.  Freemasonry is a throwback to the days when there were no corporate boards (as we know them), there were no quantifiable statistical models to anylize and spreadsheets were for sleeping in.

Please, my brothers…let Masonry be the slow, old-fashioned, mouth-to-ear and deep-thinking Craft it should be.  Enough with the super-meta-organization techniques.  Enough with the sales pitches (which we cleverly market as friend-to-friend nights).  We don’t need all that garbage.

What we need is better ritual, better education, better mentors and clear-thinking leadership.

The tricks and sleight-of-hand is what got us to where we are…  Hard work will get us to where we ought to be.

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