We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

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

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

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.

Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it