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There are no blessings which the mind may not convert into the bitterest of evils; and no trials which it may not transform into the noblest and divinest blessings.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Out of these explanations grew by degrees a variety of narrations, whose true object and meaning were gradually forgotten, or lost in contradictions and incongruities.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Remember, that though life is short, Thought and the influences of what we do or say, are immortal; and that no calculus has yet pretended to ascertain the law of proportion between cause and effect.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. 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.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
When, or who shall gather it, it does not in the least concern us to know. It is our business to plant the seed.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the Almighty Founder and Worldbuilder Himself.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Life is no negative, or superficial or worldly existence. Our steps are evermore haunted with thoughts, far beyond their own range, which some have regarded as the reminiscences of a preesistent state.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter. Spirit is — spirit.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Let the Mason never forget that life and the world are what we make them by our social character; by our adaptation, or want of adaptation to the social conditions, relationships, and pursuits of the world.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
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.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Labor is the truest emblem of God, the Architect and Eternal Maker; noble Labor, which is yet to be the King of this Earth, and sit on the highest Throne.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Life, to him, flashes, rejoicing, upon every flower and every tree that trembles in the breeze. There is more to him, everywhere, than the eye sees; a presence of profound joy, on hill and valley, and bright, dancing water.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
The business of the world absorbs, corrupts, and degrades one mind, while in another it feeds and nurses the noblest independency integrity, and generosity. Pleasure is a poison to some, and a healthful refreshment to others.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
To attack the citadels built up on all sides against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices, the Force must have a brain and a law. Then its deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)