en, very near of being put to death for
his curiosity of peeping. You also heard of the prospect of a place
called the vault, to deposit the precious treasure of Masonry, when
the time should be fulfilled, and you afterwards became a brother. The
conversation of the two kings is the figure of the coincidence of our
laws and the natural law, which forms a perfect agreement with what
is expedient, and promises to those who shall have the happiness to be
connected to you in the same manner and perfect alliance that they
will afterwards come to the centre of true knowledge.

TEARS.--The tears and regret of the two kings are the emblem of the
regret you ought to have when you perceive a brother depart from the
road of virtue.

THE MAN PEEPING.--By the man you saw peeping, and who was discovered
and seized, and conducted to death, is an emblem of those who come to
be initiated into our sacred mysteries through a motive of curiosity;
and, if so indiscreet as to divulge their obligations, we are bound to
take vengeance on the treason by the destruction of the traitor. Let
us pray the Eternal to preserve our order from such an evil you have
hereof seen an example, in that degree to which you came, by your
zeal, fervor and constancy. In that degree you have remarked, that
from all the favorites that were at that time in the apartment of
Solomon, only nine were elected to avenge the death of Hiram Abiff;
this makes good, that a great many are often called, but few chosen.
To explain this enigma, a great many of the profane have the happiness
to divest themselves of that name, to see and obtain the entrance in
our sanctuary; but very few are constant, zealous and fervent, to
merit the happiness of coming to the height and knowledge of the
sublime truth.

REQUISITIONS TO MAKE A GOOD MASON.--If you ask me what are the
requisite qualities that a Mason must be possessed of, to come to the
centre of truth, I answer you, that you must crush the head of the
serpent of ignorance. You must shake off the yoke of infant prejudice
concerning the mysteries of the reigning religion, which worship has
been imaginary, and only founded on the spirit of pride, which envies
to command and be distinguished, and to be at the head of the vulgar;
in affecting an exterior purity, which characterizes a false piety,
joined to a desire of acquiring that which is not its own, and is
always the subject of this exterior pride, and unalterable source of
many