Knowledge alone does not civilize a people.
History contains many brilliant civilizations that created sophisticated technologies while producing little compassion.
Beauty reminds us that truth is not merely understood. It is expressed.
A poem can teach what a lecture cannot.
A piece of music can heal what an argument cannot.
A well-built home, a carefully tended garden, or a beautifully crafted chair can reveal order as surely as a philosophical treatise.
The initiate therefore accepts a responsibility not only to understand harmony, but to create it.
The world is always in need of another beautiful thing.