War Is A Series Of Catastrophes Which

There Are Great Truths At The Foundation Of Freemasonry, Truths Which It Is Its Mission To Teach And Which Is Constituting The Very Essence Of, That Sublime System Which Gives The Venerable Institution Its Peculiar Identity As A Science Of Morality, And It Behooves Every Disciple Diligently To Ponder And Inwardly Digest.

We Avoid Sensuousness, Only By Resorting To Simple Negation. We Come At Last To Define Spirit By Saying That It Is Not Matter.

Death Is The Inseparable Antecedent Of Life; The Seed Dies In Order To Produce The Plant, And Earth Itself Is Rent Asunder And Dies At The Birth Of Dionusos. Hence The Significancy Of The Phallus, Or Of Its Inoffensive Substitute, The Obelisk, Rising As An Emblem Of Resurrection By The Tomb Of Buried Deity At Lerna Or At Sais.

Every Masonic Lodge Is A Temple Of Religion; And Its Teachings Are Instruction In Religion.

Doubt, The Essential Preliminary Of All Improvement And Discovery, Must Accompany The Stages Of Man's Onward Progress. The Faculty Of Doubting And Questioning, Without Which Those Of Comparison And Judgment Would Be Useless, Is Itself A Divine Prerogative Of The Reason.