"From age to age the vision of a perfect civilization is preserved as
the ideal for mankind. In the midst of that civilization shall stand a
mighty university wherein both the sacred and secular sciences
concerning the mysteries of life will be freely taught to all who will
assume the philosophic life. Here creed and dogma will have no place;
the superficial will be removed and only the essential be preserved.
The world will be ruled by its most illumined minds, and each will
occupy the position for which he is most admirably fitted. The great university will be divided into grades, admission to which
will be through preliminary tests or initiations. Here mankind will be
instructed in the most sacred, the most secret, and the most enduring
of all Mysteries--Symbolism. Here the initiate will be taught
that every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional
reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle. Here mankind will
learn that CHiram (Truth) lies buried in every atom of Kosmos; that
every form is a symbol and every symbol the tomb of an eternal verity.
Through education--spiritual, mental, moral, and physical--man will
learn to release living truths from their lifeless coverings. The
perfect government of the earth must be patterned eventually after that
divine government by which the universe is ordered. In that day when
perfect order is reestablished, with peace universal and good
triumphant, men will no longer seek for happiness, for they shall find
it welling up within themselves. Dead hopes, dead aspirations, dead
virtues shall rise from their graves, and the Spirit of Beauty and
Goodness repeatedly slain by ignorant men shall again be the Master of
Work. Then shall sages sit upon the seats of the mighty and the gods
walk with men." - Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
