All Religious Expression Is Symbolism.

The Blue Degrees Are But The Outer Court...of The Temple. Part Of The Symbols Are Displayed There To The Initiate, But He Is Intentionally Misled By False Interpretation. It Is Not Intended That He Shall Understand Them, But It Is Intended That He Shall Imagine That He Understands Them...the True Explanation Is Reserved For The Adepts, The Princes Of Masonry (those Of The 32nd And 33rd Degrees)

Fictions Are Necessary For The People, And The Truth Becomes Deadly To Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Contemplate It In All Its Brilliance. In Fact, What Can There Be In Common Between The Vile Multitude And Sublime Wisdom? The Truth Must Be Kept Secret, And The Masses Need A Teaching Proportioned To Their Imperfect Reason.

The Universe Should Be Deemed An Immense Being, Always Living, Always Moved And Always Moving In An Eternal Activity Inherent In Itself, And Which, Subordinate To No Foreign Cause, Is Communicated To All Its Parts, Connects Them Together, And Makes The World Of Things A Complete And Perfect Whole.

There Are Greater And Better Things In Us All, Than The World Takes Account Of, Or Than We Take Note Of; If We Would But Find Them Out.

The Spoken Discourse May Roll On Strongly As The Great Tidal Wave; But, Like The Wave, It Dies At Last Feebly On The Sands. It Is Heard By Few, Remembered By Still Fewer, And Fades Away, Like An Echo In The Mountains, Leaving No Token Of Power. It Is The Written Human Speech, That Gave Power And Permanence To Human Thought.