Symbolic teaching; or, Masonry and its message

Foreword

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the

truth.

77 Corinthians xiii, 8.

Science is exact knowledge of the facts of nature, classified and systematized.

Truth is the established relation which the facts of nature sustain to each other and to the Individual Intelligence or Soul of Man.

Philosophy is the conclusions which men, in their search for a knowledge of truth, have drawn from the facts of Science.

Religion is the application of the facts of Science and the Conclusions of Philosophy to individual life and conduct.

The Great Work, page 185.

When pure rules of conduct are observed, then there is true religion.

Imitation of Buddha, page 48.

Believe after observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the gain and good of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha.

The knowledge of the parents ought to be the inheritance of the children.

Tartar Proverb.

Contents

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The Message of Ancient Masonry i

Masonry and the Higher Evolution of Man 15