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From Whare Ra TempleLecture on 0=0 Grade *As I told you before, the 0=0 ceremony is one of the mostimportant of our Order. You will see, I think, the reason for that in amoment, if you consider what it is that we are associated for. For weare here, a group drawn together from all conditions. If you take thewhole Order, including the English, French, and Eastern Temples,it is still more noticeably the case. People of every grade of society,of every grade of opinion upon politics, religion, upon all subjectswhereon people differ most, people who, if they were not members ofthis Order, would probably be flying at each other's throats, meet inperfect harmony and absolute trust, because they are all in searchof the same thing. They approach it, however, from all sorts ofdifferent points. Men of science hope to find the realities which liebehind their subtlest investigations. Politicians, men and women whoare anxious in some way or other to benefit humanity, hope that theywill learn the secrets and reasons of some of the misfortunes whichbeset humanity, and how these misfortunes may be lifted. Physicians,hope that they may find the key to some of the deepest mysteries ofhuman life, and human suffering, diseases, and death. And so,*I am unaware of who wrote this lecture, but it was probably Mrs. R. W. Felkin.187