"While all these faiths assert their claim to the exclusive possession of the Truth, Masonry inculcates its old doctrine, and no more ... That God is One; that His Thought uttered in His Word, created the Universe, and preserves it by those Eternal Laws which are the expression of that Thought: that the Soul of Man, breathed into him by God, is immortal as His Thoughts are; that he is free to do evil or to choose good, responsible for his acts and punishable for his sins; that all evil and wrong and suffering are but temporary, the discords of one great Harmony, to the great, harmonic final chord and cadence of Truth, Love, Peace and Happiness, that will ring forever and ever under the Arches of Heaven, among all the Stars and Worlds, and in all souls of men and Angels."
- Albert Pike, "Morals and Dogma"-- Page 576-577