Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.

All The Great And Beneficent Operations Of Nature Are Produced By Slow And Often Imperceptible Degrees. The Work Of Destruction And Devastation Only Is Violent And Rapid.

Nothing Excites Men's Curiosity So Much As Mystery, Concealing Things Which They Desire To Know; And Nothing So Much Increases Curiosity As Obstacles That Interpose To Prevent Them From Indulging In The Gratification Of Their Desires. Of This The Legislators And Hierophants Took Advantage, To Attract The People To Their Sanctuaries, And To Induce Them To Seek To Obtain Lessons From Which They Would Perhaps Have Turned Away With Indifference If They Had Been Pressed Upon Them.

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.

The Blue Degrees Are But The Outer Court...of The Temple. Part Of The Symbols Are Displayed There To The Initiate, But He Is Intentionally Misled By False Interpretation. It Is Not Intended That He Shall Understand Them, But It Is Intended That He Shall Imagine That He Understands Them...the True Explanation Is Reserved For The Adepts, The Princes Of Masonry (those Of The 32nd And 33rd Degrees)

The Power Of A Free People Is Often At The Disposal Of A Single And Seemingly An Unimportant Individual; A Terrible And Truthful Power; For Such A People Feel With One Heart, And Therefore Can Lift Up Their Myriad Arms For A Single Blow. And, Again, There Is No Graduated Scale For The Measurement Of The Influences Of Different Intellects Upon The Popular Mind. Peter The Hermit Held No Office, Yet What A Work He Wrought!