“Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.” IfsTermMankindDefinitionsScalesDesertLeagueStrifeGood WillExhibitsOasisMasonicLodges Author:Joseph Fort Newton
“Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through long time, unfolding its beauty as it grew. Indeed, it was like one of its own cathedrals which one generation of builders wrought and vanished, and another followed, until, amidst vicissitudes of time and change, of decline and revival, the order itself became a temple of Freedom and Fraternity.” MenLongHas BeensMadeOrderGenerationsGrewEvolutionLong TimeInstitutionsTemplesDeclineRevivalUnfoldingBuilderCathedralsFraternityMasonicMasonryVicissitudesTime And Change Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness.” PowerfulVirtueGoodnessConnectionsObligationTiesMost PowerfulStrongestIncentivesCultivationMasonsMasonicMasonry Author:Joseph Fort Newton
“Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.” ThinkingMenMadeTwoSimplePrinciplesFashionAnd LoveUltimateProfoundLeavingGod LoveDividesEmphasisMasonicMasonryUltimate TruthGod And Love Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
“More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.” EarthFormDivineTraditionInstitutionsMasonicMasonryDivine Life Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry
