![]() Teaches the utility of study, as the only means of drawing nearer to our Heavenly Father, and practicing true religion, the object of which is to attain a knowledge of the perfections and unbounded munificence of God, and thereby to be-come more and more perfect, by imitating his kindness in our relations with our brethren. Teaches that by labor alone we can obtain happiness, for our fellow beings and our-selves, and that to whatever degree of civilization man-kind may attain, a true Mason will never cease to labor, that he may thereby make more complete the condition of his brethren. Teaches us that the laws which are to govern a community must be elaborated, or the legislative power exercised, by the most able and honest citizens, and that to such men only it belongs, to represent the people in the legislative assemblies, there to maintain the rights and freedom of the people. Teaches that it does not consist with the good of society, that all should pretend to command, and that the administration of order, or the executive power, like that of justice, or the judicial power, must by confided to a few of the wisest and most experienced of the citizens. That the interests of society require that the adminisiration of justice should be entrusted to a certain number of pure and upright men, for the benefit of all, and that true Masonry discountenances all acts of violence. Teaches us that no one has the right to take the law into his own hands. Teaches the necessity of order, without which, society cannot exist. Teaches justice as the neces-sary consequence of the relations between God and man. Teaches us the love of God for the human race, and the magnitude of divine attributes.ĭevelops and fully proves the sublime and consoling doctrine of the immortality of the soul. ![]() Teaches truth and consequently the existence of one God, and the relations existing between man and his Heavenly Father. The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis.
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