When We Love, We See The Infinite

The Great Work Is, Before All Things, The Creation Of Man By Himself, That Is To Say, The Full And Entire Conquest Of His Faculties And His Future; It Is Especially The Perfect Emancipation Of His Will.

Hermeticism Is The Science Of Nature Hidden In The Hieroglyphics And Symbols Of The Ancient World. It Is The Search For The Principle Of Life, Along With The Dream (for Those Who Have Not Yet Achieved It) Of Accomplishing The Great Work, That Is The Reproduction By Man Of The Divine, Natural Fire Which Creates And Recreates Beings.

That Great Kabbilistical Association Known In Europe Under The Name Of Masonry Appeared Suddenly In The World When The Revolt Against The Church Had Just Succeeded In Dismembering Christian Unity.

In Olden Times Gold Was Manufactured By Science; Nowadays Science Must Be Renewed By Gold. We Have Fixed The Volatile And We Must Now Volatilize The Fixed—in Other Words, We Have Materialized Spirit, And We Must Now Spiritualize Matter.

Everything Lives By Movement, Everything Is Maintained By Equilibrium, And Harmony Results From The Analogy Of Contraries; This Law Is The Form Of Forms.