What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of useful knowledge and learning, and stamps an… — Preston Copy Share Image
The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you… — James Parton Copy Share Image
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Cutting stone to the optimum basic size for building secure, aesthetically pleasing combinations was tantamount to establishing the smallest prime integer without… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence.… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it.… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful -… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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