The Doctrines Of The Bible Are Often

Masonry Is Identical With The Ancient Mysteries

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.

Doubt, The Essential Preliminary Of All Improvement And Discovery, Must Accompany The Stages Of Man's Onward Progress. The Faculty Of Doubting And Questioning, Without Which Those Of Comparison And Judgment Would Be Useless, Is Itself A Divine Prerogative Of The Reason.

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)

Magic Is That Which It Is; It Is By Itself, Like The Mathematics; For It Is The Exact And Absolute Science Of Nature And Its Laws . Magic Is The Science Of The Ancient Magi: And The Christian Religion, Which Has Imposed Silence On The Lying Oracles, And Put An End To The Prestiges Of The False Gods , Itself Reveres Those Magi Who Came From The East, Guided By A Star , To Adore The Saviour Of The World In His Cradle.