The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

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.

Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

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