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Will is the dynamic soul-force.
All religious expression is symbolism.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Work only can keep even kings respectable.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
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
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.
The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.
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.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.