Every Masonic Lodge Is A Temple Of

Everything Actual Must Also First Have Been Possible, Before Having Actual Existence.

The Common Right Is Nothing More Or Less Than The Protection Of All, Pouring Its Rays On Each. This Protection Of Each By All, Is Fraternity.

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

Before God Manifested Himself, When All Things Were Still Hidden In Him... He Began By Forming An Imperceptible Point; That Was His Own Thought. With This Thought He Then Began To Construct A Mysterious And Holy Form... The Universe.

If, Anywhere, Brethren Of A Particular Religious Belief Have Been Excluded From This Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], It Merely Shows How Gravely The Purposes And Plan Of Masonry May Be Misunderstood. For Whenever The Door Of Any Degree Is Closed Against Him Who Believes In One God And The Soul's Immortality, On Account Of The Other Tenets Of His Faith, That Degree Is Masonry No Longer.