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Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
All hypotheses scientifically probable are the last gleams of the twilight of knowledge, or its last shadows. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
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.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life. There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
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