Masonry Quotes - Page 2

• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  Eliphas Levi

  Names, Evil, Intellectual

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• Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

  Andrew Jackson

  Benefits, Masonic, Masons

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• It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.

  Unknown

  Masonic, Satan, Masons

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Loss, Science

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

  George Washington

  Christian, Book, Men

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• That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

  Eliphas Levi

  Christian, Europe, Names

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• This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dream, Reality, Rocks

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.91, Cooper Square Press

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• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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

  Albert Pike

  Philosophy, Solomon, Bases

  "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry".

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Men, Doors, Long

  "Window Dictatorship and Window Rights". www.hundertwasser.at. 1990.

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Cities, Looks

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

  Jane Jacobs

  Beautiful, Art, Differences

  Source: www.metropolismag.com

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• If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

  Albert Pike

  Religious, Believe, Doors

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• The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

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• The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

  William Howard Taft

  Degrees, Masonic, Strive

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• The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol.

  Benjamin Creme

  Heart, Organization, Numbers

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• What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove.

  Bernard Lazare

  Soul, Secret, Association

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• Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Powerful, Character, Men

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Ivy, Long

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Earth, Masonic, Tradition

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.211, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Albert Pike

  Brother, Men, White Man

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• Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

  Albert Pike

  Mystery, Ancient, Identical

  Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Rome, Cities, Two

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