e or Council,
without explaining any part thereof. Brother Truth then proceeds thus:
"My dear brother, by my mouth, holy truth speaketh to you, but before
she can manifest herself to you, she requires of you proofs in which
she is satisfied in your entrance into the Masonic order. She has
appeared to you in many things which you could not have apprehended or
comprehended without her assistance; but now you have the happiness to
arrive at the brilliant day, nothing can be a secret to you. Learn,
then, the moral use that is made of the three first parts of the
furniture, which you knew after you was received an Entered Apprentice
Mason, viz.: Bible, Compass and Square. By the Bible you are to
understand that it is the only law you ought to follow. It is that
which Adam received at his creation, and which the Almighty engraved
in his heart. This law is called natural law, and shows positively
that there is but one God, and to adore him only without any
subdivision or interpolation. The Compass gives you the faculty of
judging for yourself, that whatever God has created, is well, and he
is the sovereign author of every thing. Existing in himself, nothing
is either good or evil; because we understand by this expression, an
action done which is excellent in itself, is relative, and submits to
the human understanding, or judgment, to know the value and price of
such action; and that God, with whom every thing is possible,
communicates nothing of his will, but such as his great goodness
pleases; and every thing in the universe is governed as he has decreed
it, with justice, being able to compare it with the attributes of the
Divinity. I equally say, that in himself there is no evil; because he
has made every thing with exactness, and that every thing exists
according to his will; consequently, as it ought to be. This distance
between good and evil with the Divinity, cannot be more justly and
clearly compared than by a circle formed with a compass. From the
points being reunited there is formed an entire circumference; and
when any point in particular equally approaches or equally separates
from its point, it is only a faint resemblance of the distance between
good and evil, which we compare by the points of a compass forming a
circle, which circle when completed is God.

SQUARE.--By the Square we discover that God, who has made every thing
equal, in the same manner that you are not able to dig a body in a
quarry complete, or p