Masonry Is Identical With The Ancient Mysteries

Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.

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...

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.

Let Us Drink Together, Fellows, As We Did In Days Of Yore. And Still Enjoy The Golden Hours That Fortune Has In Store; The Absent Friends Remembered Be, In All That’s Sung Or Said, And Love Immortal Consecrate The Memory Of The Dead.

The Power Of A Free People Is Often At The Disposal Of A Single And Seemingly An Unimportant Individual; A Terrible And Truthful Power; For Such A People Feel With One Heart, And Therefore Can Lift Up Their Myriad Arms For A Single Blow. And, Again, There Is No Graduated Scale For The Measurement Of The Influences Of Different Intellects Upon The Popular Mind. Peter The Hermit Held No Office, Yet What A Work He Wrought!