I BELIEVE

I believe in God, Grand Architect of the Universe, the Alpha of the unreckoned yesterdays, the Omega of the impenetrable tomorrows, the beginning and the ending.

I believe in man, potentially God's other self, often faltering on his way upward but irrepressible in the urge to scale the spiritual Annapurnas.

I believe in Freemasonry - that corporate adventure in universal brotherhood, despising kinship with no child of the All - Father.
I believe in Prince Hall Masonry, a door of benevolence securely tiled against the unworthy, but opened wide to men of good report, whether Aryan or Hottentot.

I believe in Masonic vows - the truths of true men plighted to their better selves.