"Expatiating on the mysteries of the Craft."

Truth is above all else however respect should always be shown.
Trial and Error.

It means a turning away from the pursuit of the popular ideals of the outer world, in the conviction that those ideals are but shadows, images, and temporal substitutions for the eternal Reality that underlies them, and the keen and undivertable quest of that Reality itself and the recovery of those genuine secrets of our being, which lie burried and hidden in the
"center or innermost part of our souls".
...To the keen and undivertable quest...

Divine Reality
"Know Thyself"
Understanding of the underlying philosophy.
These mysteries were formerly taught we are told, "on the highest hills and the lowest valley ".
A golden key is placed on the Bible. This key opens a small ebony box in which are contained the plans for the building of the temple and this opens a small ebony box in which are contained the plans for the building of the temple and this key opens a small ivory box containing all keys of the temple.
You have passed the Secret and Perfect Master, you have been decorated with an ivory key, a symbol of your distinction...

IVORY KEY-- By the "Ivory Key" you are to understand that you cannot open your heart with safety but at proper times.
In these degrees they have shown you an ebony box, a key suspended, a balance, and an inflamed urn.

KEY-- The -- The Key demonstrates that you have already obtained a key to our knowledge and apart of our mysteries...

Q. What is signified by the five beams of light?
A. The five equal lights of the Masonry, The Bible, The Square, The Compass, The Key, and The Triangle.

Q. What is your age?
A. 27, or 5, 7, and 15.

The standard E bears a golden lion holding in his mouth a golden key, wearing around his neck a golden collar on it which is engraved 515.

Eleventh. (4+7) The key teaches to have a watchful eye over those who are contrary to reason.

Furthermore, I will not reveal the ineffable charecters belonging to this degree or retain the key to them in my possesion but destroy it whenever it comes to my sight.
On inspecting it more closely they found a key with which they opened it.
There was a key to the ineffable charecters belonging to this degree at the top of this diagram, at the left hand angle.
"Nothing but a faint resemblance of the letter G! That is not the Master's word, nor a key to it. I fear the Master's word is forever lost."

Judges 3:25They waited to the point of embarassment but when he did not open the door of the room they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their Lord fallen on the floor dead.

1 Chronicles 9:27They would spend the night stationed around the house of GOD because they had to guard it and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.

Isaiah 22:22
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut and what he shuts no one can open.

Isaiah 33:6
He will be the sure foundation of your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is the key to this treasure.

Matthew 16:19
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Luke 11:52
"Woe to you experts in law, because you have taken them away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered and have hindered those who were entering.

Revelation 1:18
I' am the Living One, I was dead and behold I' am now alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Revelation 3:7

To the angel of the church of Philedelphia write:

"These are the words of of him who is holy and true. Who holds the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut and what he shuts no one can open."

Revelation 9:1
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet and I saw the star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
Revelation 20:1

THE THOUSAND YEARS

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.
Such a man's physical organism and brain have become subliminated and keyed up to a condition and efficiency immensely in advance of average humanity.
The discerning student who will peruse the biblical books of Nehemiah and Ezra (including the Apocryphal books of Esdras) in this light and with this key of the true purport, will not fail to profit by this instruction they will yield.
Geometry and Arithmetic were sciences of transcendental space and numeration (seeing that as in the words of our own scriptures GOD has "made everything by measure, number, and weight") the comprehension of which is to provide the key, not only to the problem of one's being but to those physical ones which are found so baffling by the inductive methods of to-day.

Daniel 5:12
This man Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means. "

John 19:13
When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).

The Almighty God
6:59 With him are the keys to all secrets; none known knows them except He. He knows everything on land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls without his knowledge. Nor is there a grain in the depths of the soil. Nor is there anything wet or dry that is not recorded in profound record.