All Religious Expression Is Symbolism.

We Seem Never To Know What Any Thing Means Or Is Worth Until We Have Lost It.

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.

The Sources Of Our Knowledge Of The Kabalistic Doctrines Are The Books Of Yetzirah And Zohar, The Former Drawn Up In The Second Century, And The Latter A Little Later; But They Contain Materials Much Older Than Themselves...in Them, As In The Teachings Of Zoroaster, Everything That Exists Emanates From A Source Of Infinite Light.

We Masons Are Among The Fortunate Ones Who Are Taught To Meet Together With Others Opposing Convictions Or Competitive Ideas And Yet Respect Each Other As Brothers.

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.