Charmed Life
“…There is a secret in the simplest things, a wonder in the plainest, a charm in the dullest. …”
“…There is a secret in the simplest things, a wonder in the plainest, a charm in the dullest. …”
“A human heart throbs beneath the beggar’s gabardine; and that and no more stirs with its beating the Prince’s mantle. “
“ …The religion taught by Moses, which, like the laws of Egypt, enunciated the principle of exclusion, borrowed, at every period of its existence, from all the creeds with which it came in contact. … “
“…we may restrain our passions, subdue our hearts to gentleness and patience, …”
“…There is a secret In the simplest things, a wonder in the plainest…”
“The hour of proving one’s self is always afoot!”
-Chip Van Hassel
Laughing Jackass
Physical Obedience
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We no longer expect to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem. To us it has become but a symbol. To us the whole world is God’s Temple, as is every upright heart. To establish all over the world the New Law and Reign of Love, Peace, Charity, and Toleration, is to build that Temple, most acceptable to God, in erecting which Masonry is now engaged. No longer needing to repair to Jerusalem to worship, nor to offer up sacrifices and shed blood to propitiate the Deity, man may make the woods and mountains his Churches and Temples, and worship God with a devout gratitude, and with works of charity and beneficence to his fellow-men. Wherever the humble and contrite heart silently offers up its adoration, under the overarching trees, in the open, level meadows, on the hill-side, in the glen, or in the city’s swarming streets; there is God’s House and the New Jerusalem.
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