Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.

There Are No Temptations From Which Assailed Virtue May Not Gain Strength, Instead Of Falling Before Them, Vanquished And Subdued.

The Doctrines Of The Bible Are Often Not Clothed In The Language Of Strict Truth, But In That Which Was Fittest To Convey To A Rude And Ignorant People The Practical Essentials Of The Doctrine.

I Took My Obligations From White Men, Not From Negroes. When I Have To Accept Negroes As Brothers Or Leave Masonry, I Shall Leave It

Death Is The Inseparable Antecedent Of Life; The Seed Dies In Order To Produce The Plant, And Earth Itself Is Rent Asunder And Dies At The Birth Of Dionusos. Hence The Significancy Of The Phallus, Or Of Its Inoffensive Substitute, The Obelisk, Rising As An Emblem Of Resurrection By The Tomb Of Buried Deity At Lerna Or At Sais.

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.