Somewhere the free spirit must take its stand and claim its God-given distinction. If life is to be at all worth while there must be some boundary within which the soul holds its own august and ultimate tribunal.

Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, The Record of a Quaker Conscience

Consider also:

  1. “In our school we are instructed by Divine wisdom, the heavenly bride, whose will is free, and who comes to him whom she selects. The mysteries which we know embrace everything that can possibly be known in regard to God, Nature, and Man. Every sage that has ever existed has graduated in our school, in which he could have learned true wisdom.”
  2. “Hence in the E.A. degree, we ask, ‘As a Mason, whence come you?’ and the answer, coming from an apprentice (i.e., from the natural man of undeveloped knowledge) is ‘From the West,’ since he supposes that his life has originated in this world.”
  3. “Its forces are drawn from the whole world, and it is established in the SAHU before the soul descends into generation.”
  4. “In the tradition of all great America ideas, [they] have created a confident plan for action, no matter how costly, impractical, or dangerous.”
  5. “Gravity grew such radiant adornments, its morbid simplicity compared to snakes, its secret wars torn from hidden promises, and all the while the only things that float defy nothing.”