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There are many negati ves to leading a moral life. My
questi ons to you, my brothers, are this: Would you want
to be associated with those whom you might lose in the
course of doing the right thing? And do you take your
Masonic obligati ons seriously enough to do the right
thing regardless of the outcome?

Worshipful Brother Dr. Jyothindra Kumar (Grand Lodge
of India) said it very well.
“The greatest insight that today’s mason ought to have
is the sense to discriminate between right and wrong,
and to disti nguish between the ideal and the practi cal;
to act on that, what his conscience tells him is the best
choice, and restoring Ordo ab Chao – order out of the
moral and mental chaos amidst the crushing pressures
and stresses of daily modern life. Such, my brother, is
the nature of the human concept of morality. Do right
if you can; if questi onable, do not do it; and above all,
do no harm. No longer talk about the kind of man that
a good man ought to be – but be such!!” (2008).

Remember: Morality ma� ers most when it hurts!

References
Golden Rule Project (2023). Golden Rule Project Formulations,
https://www.goldenruleproject.org/formulations.
Marshall, Taylor, Dr. (2024). Must watch videos. 115: Intro
to Four Cardinal Virtues (Virtues Part 1)) [Podcast], https://
taylormarshall.com/2016/09/115-introduction-to-the-four-
cardinal-virtues-part-1-of-virtues-podcast.html.
Kumar, J. (2008) Morality and Freemasonry, http://www.
freemasons-freemasonry.com/morality_freemasonry.html.
Mendis, R. n.d. The Masonic Seeding of Our Commercial
Republic,https://scottishrite.org/blog/about/media-
publications/journal/article/the-masonic-seeding-of-our-
commercial-republic/.
Merriam-Webster, 2024. Fortitude, noun. Synonyms of
fortitude,https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/
fortitude

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