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236 LOOK OF THE A. AND A. BITE.
No longer for men's sorrow groan,
Their sins, their shame, their tears,
But still and stately past God's throne
March onward, banish fears.
The sun is radiant in the sky,
The earth in regal state
Waits but the Hallelujah cry
That opes the holy gate.
LECTURE.
My brother, this Preceptory is in the form of a
heptagon, hung with crimson, and sprinkled with
stars of gold. In each angle is a column, on the
capitals of which, beginning at the southeast and
going round by the southwest in regular succession,
are the initials respectively of the words Beauty,
Divinity, Wisdom, Power, Honor, Glory, and Force
—the seven mystic characters of the heptagon, sig-
nifying
:
Beauty, to adorn our works.
Divinity, to study which is one of our principal
aims.
Wisdom, to invent and work.
Power, to punish and confound the calumnies of
wicked brethren and the profane.
Honor is an indispensable quality in a Freemason,
to labor with respectability.
Glory, that the true Freemason is an equal to the
prince or potentate.