21°
Noachite or Prussian
Knight
You
are especially charged in this Degree to be modest and humble, and not
vain-glorious nor filled with self-conceit. Be not wiser in your
own opinion than the Deity, nor find fault with His works, nor endeavor
to improve upon what He has done. Be modest also in your intercourse
with your fellows, and slow to entertain evil thoughts of them, and reluctant
to ascribe to them evil intentions.
There is no
obligation resting on us to trumpet forth our disapproval of every wrongful
or improper act that every other man commits.
There is but
one rule for the Mason in this matter. If there be virtues, and he
is called upon to speak of him who owns them, let him tell them forth impartially.
And if there be vices mixed with them, let him be content the world shall
know them by some other tongues than his.
