That Which We Do For

That Which Causes Us Trials Shall Yield Us Triumph: And That Which Make Our Hearts Ache Shall Fill Us With Gladness. The Only True Happiness Is To Learn, To Advance, And To Improve: Which Could Not Happen Unless We Had Commenced With Error, Ignorance, And Imperfection. We Must Pass Through The Darkness, To Reach The Light.

Man's Real Genius And Knowledge Remains Preserved In Books

Fictions Are Necessary For The People, And The Truth Becomes Deadly To Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Contemplate It In All Its Brilliance. In Fact, What Can There Be In Common Between The Vile Multitude And Sublime Wisdom? The Truth Must Be Kept Secret, And The Masses Need A Teaching Proportioned To Their Imperfect Reason.

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.

The Second World War Must Be Fomented By Taking Advantage Of The Differences Between The Fascists And The Political Zionists. This War Must Be Brought About So That Nazism Is Destroyed And That The Political Zionism Be Strong Enough To Institute A Sovereign State Of Israel In Palestine. During The Second World War, International Communism Must Become Strong Enough In Order To Balance Christendom, Which Would Be Then Restrained And Held In Check Until The Time When We Would Need It For The Final Social Cataclysm.