A Man Should Live With His Superiors

True Thoughts Have Duration In Themselves. If The Thoughts Endure, The Seed Is Enduring; If The Seed Endures, The Energy Endures; If The Energy Endures, Then Will The Spirit Endure. The Spirit Is Thought; Thought Is The Heart; The Heart Is The Fire; The Fire Is The Elixir.

All The Great And Beneficent Operations Of Nature Are Produced By Slow And Often Imperceptible Degrees. The Work Of Destruction And Devastation Only Is Violent And Rapid.

What Is The Purpose For Which Masonry Exists? Its Ultimate Purpose Is The Perfection Of Humanity. Mankind It Self Is Still In A Period Of Youth. We Are Only Now Beginning To Acquire A Consciousness Of The Social Aim Of Civilization, Which Is Man's Perfection. Such Perfection Can Never End With Physical Perfection, Which Is Only The Means To The End Or Spiritual Perfection.

It Is Not In The Books Of The Philosophers, But In The Religious Symbolism Of The Ancients, That We Must Look For The Footprints Of Science, And Re-discover The Mysteries Of Knowledge.

That Which We Say And Do, If Its Effects Last Not Beyond Our Lives, Is Unimportant.