Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

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.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.