Less Glory Is More Liberty.

There Are No Temptations From Which Assailed Virtue May Not Gain Strength, Instead Of Falling Before Them, Vanquished And Subdued.

Our Adversaries, Numerous And Formidable, Will Say, And Will Have The Right To Say, That Our Principe CrÇateur Is Identical With The Principe GÇnÇrateur Of The Indians And Egyptians, And May Fitly Be Symbolized As It Was Symbolized Anciently, By The Linage...to Accept This In Lieu Of A Personal God Is To Abandon Christianity And Worship Of Jehovah And Return To Wallow In The Styles Of Paganism.

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.

If, Anywhere, Brethren Of A Particular Religious Belief Have Been Excluded From This Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], It Merely Shows How Gravely The Purposes And Plan Of Masonry May Be Misunderstood. For Whenever The Door Of Any Degree Is Closed Against Him Who Believes In One God And The Soul's Immortality, On Account Of The Other Tenets Of His Faith, That Degree Is Masonry No Longer.

We Live Our Little Life; But Heaven Is Above Us And All Around And Close To Us; And Eternity Is Before Us And Behind Us; And Suns And Stars Are Silent Witnesses And Watchers Over Us. We Are Enfolded By Infinity.