Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.

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.

We Seem Never To Know What Any Thing Means Or Is Worth Until We Have Lost It.

We Are All Naturally Seekers Of Wonders. We Travel Far To See The Majesty Of Old Ruins, The Venerable Forms Of The Hoary Mountains, Great Waterfalls, And Galleries Of Art. And Yet The World's Wonder Is All Around Us; The Wonder Of Setting Suns, And Evening Stars, Of The Magic Spring-time, The Blossoming Of The Trees, The Strange Transformations Of The Moth...

Justice To Others And To Ourselves Is The Same; That We Cannot Define Our Duties By Mathematical Lines Ruled By The Square, But Must Fill With Them The Great Circle Traced By The Compasses

The Universal Medicine For The Soul Is The Supreme Reason And Absolute Justice; For The Mind, Mathematical And Practical Truth; For The Body, The Quintessence, A Combination Of Light And Gold.