We Must Pass Through The Darkness, To

Justice Is Peculiarly Indispensable To Nations.

Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.

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.

Death Is The Inseparable Antecedent Of Life; The Seed Dies In Order To Produce The Plant, And Earth Itself Is Rent Asunder And Dies At The Birth Of Dionusos. Hence The Significancy Of The Phallus, Or Of Its Inoffensive Substitute, The Obelisk, Rising As An Emblem Of Resurrection By The Tomb Of Buried Deity At Lerna Or At Sais.

Let Us Drink Together, Fellows, As We Did In Days Of Yore. And Still Enjoy The Golden Hours That Fortune Has In Store; The Absent Friends Remembered Be, In All That’s Sung Or Said, And Love Immortal Consecrate The Memory Of The Dead.