Mystic masonry, or, The symbols of freemasonry and the greater ...

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Mystic Masonry.
mine the standards and usages in what is called
"society," the ideals of their male associates are far
lower than theirs, and the men are saved from ennui
by the diversity of Club Life or the necessities of
business. The common laborer who finds continued
employment is really less miserable oftentimes than
these sons and daughters of fortune, who generally
lose all zest in life, whose old age is filled with misery
over their vanished youth, and whose lives are
frequently cut short by paresis, where they do not
degenerate into imbecility. It is one of the most
hopeful signs of the time that among this favored
class an increasing number are found devoting
themselves, their time, energy, and money, to the
betterment of the condition of the masses. Reincarnation
being true, these servants of humanity
are laying by a store of good Karma, which is literally
"treasure in heaven," and which must inevitably
secure for them still broader opportunities and
greater power for good in another life; and best of
all, they are unfolding the higher spiritual perceptions.
Nothing so shrouds the Higher Self in man
as selfishness, and this is the reason why so few persons
are possessed of the direct perception that
what is true, is True, and that what is false, is False.
There has been for a long time a very widespread