What We Have Done For Ourselves Alone

A Good Man Will Find That There Is Goodness In The World; An Honest Man Will Find That There Is Honesty In The World; And A Man Of Principle Will Find Principle And Integrity In The Hearts Of Others.

We Are All Naturally Seekers Of Wonders. We Travel Far To See The Majesty Of Old Ruins, The Venerable Forms Of The Hoary Mountains, Great Waterfalls, And Galleries Of Art. And Yet The World's Wonder Is All Around Us; The Wonder Of Setting Suns, And Evening Stars, Of The Magic Spring-time, The Blossoming Of The Trees, The Strange Transformations Of The Moth...

Masonry Is A Search After Light. That Search Leads Us Directly Back, As You See, To The Kabalah.

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!

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.