Doubt, The Essential Preliminary Of All Improvement

Strange And Mysterious Name To Give To The Spirit Of Darkness! Lucifer, The Son Of The Morning! Is It He Who Bears The Light, And With Its Splendors Intolerable Blinds Feeble, Sensual, Or Selfish Souls? Doubt It Not!

Phenomena Are Constantly Folded Back Upon Themselves.

Our Adversaries, Numerous And Formidable, Will Say, And Will Have The Right To Say, That Our Principe CrÇateur Is Identical With The Principe GÇnÇrateur Of The Indians And Egyptians, And May Fitly Be Symbolized As It Was Symbolized Anciently, By The Linage...to Accept This In Lieu Of A Personal God Is To Abandon Christianity And Worship Of Jehovah And Return To Wallow In The Styles Of Paganism.

For It Is True Now, As It Always Was And Always Will Be, That To Be Free Is The Same Thing As To Be Pious, To Be Wise, To Be Temperate And Just, To Be Frugal And Abstinent, And To Be Magnanimous And Brave; And To Be The Opposite Of All These Is The Same As To Be A Slave.

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.