A Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry Author:George Oliver General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: R. Spencer Subjects: Freemasonry Social Science / Freemasonry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get fr... more »ee trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Think the best, but never speak the worst; reverence and imitate the good qualities of others, but to all their defects, whether real or imaginary, be a Mason in secrecy, and thus prove to the world -- whose eye is curious, indeed, over Masons -- that one of the secrets of Masonry is the concealment of our brother's fault, which, by discovery, could neither be amended nor obliterated. CONCLUSION. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. -- Solomon. CONCORD. The Master of each lodge should found his government in concord and universal love; for as the Great Architect moves the system with his ringer, and touches the spheres with harmony , so that the morning stars together sing the songs of gratitude, and the floods clap their hands, amidst the invariable beauties of order; so should we, rejoicing, be of one accord and of one law, in unanimity, in charity, and in affection, moving by one unchanging system, and actuated by one principle, rectitude of manners. -- Hutckinson. CONFIDENCE. What the ignorant call "the oath," is simply an obligation, covenant, and promise enacted previously to the divulging of the specialities of the Order, and our means of recognizing each other; and that they shall be kept from the knowledge of the world, lest their original intent should be thwarted, and their benevolent purport prevented. Now pray wha...« less