Man Is Not To Be

To Work With The Hands Or Brain, According To Our Requirements And Our Capacities, To Do That Which Lies Before Us To Do, Is More Honorable Than Rank And Title.

A Man Should Live With His Superiors As He Does With His Fire: Not Too Near, Lest He Burn; Nor Too Far Off, Lest He Freeze.

The Double Law Of Attraction And Radiation Or Of Sympathy And Antipathy, Of Fixedness And Movement, Which Is The Principle Of Creation, And The Perpetual Cause Of Life.

Pride Is Not The Heritage Of Man; Humility Should Dwell With Frailty, And Atone For Ignorance, Error, And Imperfection.

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.