Symbolic Rituals Quotes

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.