Masonic Rules according to the Resolutions of the Convent of Wilhelmsbad

be; your contemporaries will bless you, and with a serene brow German: mit heiterer Stirne; an idiom suggesting a clear conscience and a lack of shame or fear. you will be able to step before the throne of the Eternal German: des Ewigen; a common Enlightenment-era epithet for God, emphasizing His timeless nature..

Above all, the feeling of benevolence and love, which constitute the foundation of this holy religion, must completely permeate you.

Pity those who err, without hating or persecuting them. Leave the office of judge to God; but as for you, love and endure.

Masons! Children of the same God! You who are already brothers through a common faith in our divine Redeemer, draw the bond of love as tightly as possible, and banish far from yourselves every prejudice that could disturb our brotherly harmony.