“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.” ThinkingFirstsWellsLooksMadeStoriesAnswersCitiesBuildingStonesTreatmentGothicAcidIngeniousMosquesMasonryPrinceton Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“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.” WorldChristianNamesChurchKnownEuropeUnityAssociationRevoltMasonryChristian Unity Author:Eliphas Levi
“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.” MenPersonsLongDifferentAbleNextDoorsStreetsArmsWindowPaintVisibleApartmentBrushesAfarMasonry Author:Friedensreich Hundertwasser
“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.” IfsBelieveMayHas BeensSoulShowsPurposeBeliefReligiousPlansDoorsParticularDegreesAccountsRoseImmortalityMisunderstoodKnightsReligious BeliefBrethrenExcludedMasonry Author:Albert Pike
“To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'” ShouldMayDegreesDoctrineRepeatsPurityDogmaSovereignBrethrenInitiateLuciferMasonsMasonicMasonryFreemasonryInspectors Author:Albert Pike
“Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.” WorldKindReasonLastsEnjoyCommunityPleasureTakenHappenedYouthListeningToleranceIntimacyIronyAppreciatedExquisiteMasonryPrecocious Book:Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.” PeopleHumansLittlesHas BeensInspirationSeemsFallBuildingDivineTheoryGeniusCriticismMysteriousAll TimeHeightLatterDeclineRhymeLoftyLiterary CriticismMasonryInscrutableBricklaying Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.” WorldHomeHouseCitiesBrokenWallGardenGlassesDelightClimbingBlankFountainMexicanDiscouragingMasonryBurglarsBroken Glass Author:Charles Portis
“The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.” IfsMenKindMayDoeWholeLastsBeautifulScienceNextSpeakCausesUltimateScientistAimFoundationStructurePracticalsAnalysisDamageFlawsCollapseGrossDissatisfiedMasonryApproximationProgress In Science Author:Gilbert N. Lewis