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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 Word Well Spoken, The Deed Fitly Done, Even By The Feeblest Or Humblest, Cannot Help But Have Their Effect. More Or Less, The Effect Is Inevitable And Eternal.

Masonry Is Identical With The Ancient Mysteries

A War For A Great Principle Ennobles A Nation. A War For Commercial Supremacy, Upon Some Shallow Pretext, Is Despicable, And More Than Aught Else Demonstrates To What Immeasurable Depths Of Baseness Men And Nations Can Descend.

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