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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 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.

Almost All The Noblest Things That Have Been Achieved In The World, Have Been Achieved By Poor Men; Poor Scholars, Poor Professional Men, Poor Artisans And Artists, Poor Philosophers, Poets, And Men Of Genius.

Two Forms Of Government Are Favorable To The Prevalence Of Falsehood And Deceit. Under A Despotism, Men Are False, Treacherous, And Deceitful Through Fear, Like Slaves Dreading The Lash. Under A Democracy They Are So As A Means Of Attaining Popularity And Office, And Because Of The Greed For Wealth.

Masonry Is A Search After Light. That Search Leads Us Directly Back, As You See, To The Kabalah.