Everything Actual Must Also First

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.

A War For A Great Principle Ennobles A Nation. A War For Commercial Supremacy, Upon Some Shallow Pretext, Is Despicable, And More Than Aught Else Demonstrates To What Immeasurable Depths Of Baseness Men And Nations Can Descend.

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

To Sow, That Others May Reap; To Work And Plant For Those That Are To Occupy The Earth When We Are Dead; To Project Our Influences Far Into The Future, And Live Beyond Our Time; To Rule As The Kings Of Thought, Over Men Who Are Yet Unborn; To Bless With The Glorious Gifts Of Truth And Light And Liberty Those Who Will Neither Know The Name Of The Giver, Nor Care In What Grave His Unregarded Ashes Repose, Is The True Office Of A Mason And The Proudest Destiny Of A Man.

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