Freemasonry

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Freemasonry is a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.


 * A Lodge is not to be understood simply as a place where Masons assemble for the dispatch of business, but of the aggregate body of its members. The latter is, strictly speaking, the Lodge; the former is only the Lodge-room.
 * When seated, recollect your situation. If you are an Officer, do your duty, and nothing more.  If you are simply a Brother, your business is to hear, and not to speak.  An officious interference is unbecoming in a Mason: it may do harm, and cannot, by any possibility, be productive of good.
 * Silence, secrecy, and calmness of temper, are the unmistakable marks of a genuine Mason. If you hear any one make an incessant boast of his knowledge, you may set him down as an empty chatterer.  Noise is not wisdom.  Those who ostentatiously proclaim their own merits may for a time enjoy the satisfaction of deceit, yet in the end their pretensions are sure to be unmasked.
 * Be very cautious whom you recommend as a candidate for initiation; one false step on this point may be fatal. If you introduce a disputatious person, confusion will be produced, which may end in the dissolution of the Lodge.  If you have a good Lodge, keep it select. Great numbers are not always beneficial.
 * The great secret for improving the memory, may be found in exercise, practice, and labour. Nothing is so much improved by care, or injured by neglect, as the memory.