Several Masonic Assembly Speeches

and which is convinced of the great truth,
that not a hair from the head of man
shall fall, without it being the predestinationVorherbestimmung—the belief that all events are willed by a higher power.
of wise ProvidenceVorsehung—divine guidance or care.; even less
does it doubt that a benefitWohlthat—an act of kindness or fraternal favor. bestowed
can ever be erased from the Books of LifeBücher des Lebens—the eternal record of one's deeds and spiritual standing..
Since, moreover, all
human thanks remains at most a pious
wish, and the only reward satisfying to the
wise man is to be received only from above,
I content myself with sending up my most sincere
prayer to the original: "Geber alles Guten"—the Giver of all good things, a reference to the Creator. Giver of all good,
and to implore Him for the blessing
in place of my thanks, a blessing
of which your sincere fraternal dispositionbrüderliche Gesinnung—the shared spirit and mindset of the order's members.
toward me, your faithful exhortations,
guidance, example, and unchangeable
love were worthy.