Hypocrisy Is The Homage That Vice And

Philosophy Is A Kind Of Journey, Ever Learning Yet Never Arriving At The Ideal Perfection Of Truth.

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.

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

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.

If The Soul Sees, After Death , What Passes On This Earth , And Watches Over The Welfare Of Those It Loves, Then Must Its Greatest Happiness Consist In Seeing The Current Of Its Beneficent Influences Widening Out From Age To Age, As Rivulets Widen Into Rivers, And Aiding To Shape The Destinies Of Individuals, Families, States, The World; And Its Bitterest Punishment, In Seeing Its Evil Influences Causing Mischief And Misery , And Cursing And Afflicting Men, Long After The Frame It Dwelt In Has Become Dust, And When Both Name And Memory Are Forgotten.