A War For A Great Principle Ennobles

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.

Justice Is Peculiarly Indispensable To Nations . The Unjust State Is Doomed Of God To Calamity And Ruin. This Is The Teaching Of The Eternal Wisdom And Of History .

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

The Common Right Is Nothing More Or Less Than The Protection Of All, Pouring Its Rays On Each. This Protection Of Each By All, Is Fraternity.

Virtue Is But Heroic Bravery, To Do The Thing Thought To Be True, In Spite Of All Enemies Of Flesh Or Spirit, In Despite Of All Temptations Or Menaces.