>>9108329
Infiltration , instead of invasion.
we know no government save our own. To every government save that of Masonry, and to each and all alike, we are foreigners; and this form of government is neither pontifical, autocratic, monarchial, republican, democratic nor despotic; it is a government per se, and that government is Masonic. We have nothing to do with forms of government, forms of religion, or forms of social life. We are a nation of men only bound to each other by Masonic ties, as citizens of the world, and that world the world of Masonry; brethren to each other all the world over, foreigners to all the world beside.
'"The above is a Masonic address in a nut-shell; it is the compressed essence of Masonic life."
– [It's taken from the] Missouri Grand Lodge Report for 1867.
Read on air by William Cooper