Masonic Rules according to the Resolutions of the Convent of Wilhelmsbad

belonged to you, and which still distinguishes you from other beings?

Worship Him, the Lord, in the dust of your countenance A phrase indicating deep humility and prostration before the divine., and take care that the heavenly, imperishable essence that animates you be not disfigured.

This essence is your soul; labor toward its cultivation German: Ausbildung; in the 18th-century sense, this refers to the character-building and unfolding of one's inner potential.: it is capable of infinite perfection German: Vervollkommnung; a central Enlightenment ideal suggesting that humans can continually improve their moral and intellectual state..

Make it so receptive to the good that it may return unhindered to the pure source of virtue after its dissolution from bodily bonds.

Only thus will you be free even in chains, cheerful in misfortune, unshakable during the fiercest storm, and heroic even in death.