Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth

Are the three great Tenets or Principles of a Freemason.

Brotherly Love

Is the strongest cement of the Order, and without it the Fraternity would soon cease to exist. By it we are taught to regard the whole human species as one family, to aid support and protect each other.

Relief

Flows from Brotherly Love, and it is a duty incumbent on all men: to soothe the afflicions of others, relieve the distressed and restore peace to their troubled minds.

Truth

Is a divine attribute, and the mother of Virtue. One of the earliest lessons we learn in Freemasonry is to be zealous in the pursuit of truth, and to dispense it freely.