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To You, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), We Say This, That You May Repeat It To The Brethren Of The 32nd, 31st, And 30th Degrees: 'the Masonic Religion Should Be, By All Of Us Initiates Of The High Degrees, Maintained In The Purity Of The Luciferian Doctrine.'

What We Have Done For Ourselves Alone Dies With Us; What We Have Done For Others And The World Remains And Is Immortal.

The Sources Of Our Knowledge Of The Kabalistic Doctrines Are The Books Of Yetzirah And Zohar, The Former Drawn Up In The Second Century, And The Latter A Little Later; But They Contain Materials Much Older Than Themselves...in Them, As In The Teachings Of Zoroaster, Everything That Exists Emanates From A Source Of Infinite Light.

Nothing Excites Men's Curiosity So Much As Mystery, Concealing Things Which They Desire To Know; And Nothing So Much Increases Curiosity As Obstacles That Interpose To Prevent Them From Indulging In The Gratification Of Their Desires. Of This The Legislators And Hierophants Took Advantage, To Attract The People To Their Sanctuaries, And To Induce Them To Seek To Obtain Lessons From Which They Would Perhaps Have Turned Away With Indifference If They Had Been Pressed Upon Them.

Force, Unregulated Or Ill-regulated, Is Not Only Wasted In The Void, Like That Of Gunpowder Burned In The Open Air, And Steam Unconfined By Science; But, Striking In The Dark, And Its Blows Meeting Only The Air, They Recoil, And Bruise Itself.