Freemasonry, A beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. The most ancient society in the world; its principles are based on pure morality, its ethics are are the ethics of pure religion; its doctrines, the doctrines of brotherly love; and its sentiments, the sentiments of exalted benevolence. It encourages all that is good, kind and charitable; and reproves all that is vicious, cruel and oppressive.