" Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong -- essentially wrong -- a seed of evil, which can never produce any good". 
 
   John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the Unites States. (Left)


Quotations from Leading Masons, sent by a reader


The true name of Satan, the Kabalist say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is the personification of Atheism or Idolatry.

     For the Initiates this is not a person, but a force, created for good, but which may serve evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free will. They represent this force, which presides over the physical generation, under the mythological and horned form of the God Pan; thence came the he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer ot the Legend.
 
     Albert Pike 'MORALS AND DOGMA OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE' page102.
 
 
  Lucifer the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the morning! It is he who bears the light...............Doubt it not!
 
    Albert Pike 'MORALS AND DOGMA' page 321.
 
 
  When the mason learns that the key to the warrior on the block is the proper application of the dynamo of living power, he has learned they mystery of his craft. The seething energies of Lucifer are in his hands............
      
    Manley P.Hall  'THE LOST KEYS OF FREEMASONRY' page 50-51.

 
    The universal truths of the secret doctrine are stated in terms of politics, industry, economics, management, and labour. International accord, the arbitration of religious and social differences, and the systematic advancement of the plan for world welfare supply the ingredients of a new application of Hermetic chemistry.

   Thus the plan unfolds, the principles remain the same, the needs enlarge, and the mortal crises is perpetual. Three thousand years ago Memphis of the white walls was the college city of the Egyptian adepts. Here the initiates governed their school according to divine and universal laws. Memphis was the archetype of the world city, the union of nations, the one world -- the Philosophic common-wealth which is to come. The goal of the secret schools is the revelation in the sphere of mortal activity of the design of the Invisible College.....
 
 Manley P.Hall 'MASONIC ORDERS OF FRATERNITY' page 95.