The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

146 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
should live in this world to gain that everlasting
life and happiness promised to us in that spiritual
form which all must assume at no great distance
of time.
We are all striving to obtain a knowledge of
" a something " which we feel there is, there must
be, but many cannot yet understand what it is, and
how to obtain it. There is that written on stone
and on papyri (which has been preserved through
hundreds of thousands of years) showing what we
should do in this world to gain that everlasting
life and happiness in the next, given by the Divine
Creator to our forefathers, and the tenets of which,
to a great extent, have been preserved to us
Freemasons direct from- the original.