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Moral Code
Wes Cook

Edited by Brother Wes Cook 1965

Brother and General Douglas Macarthur was a member of Manila Lodge #1, Philippines. In a letter written for the Western Australian Freemason in 1950 he wrote, as regarding Freemasonry:

It embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Its requirements are the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things which are wrong.

Inculcating doctrines of patriotism and Brotherly Love, enjoying sentiments of exalted benevolence, encouraging all that is good, kind and charitable, reprobating all that is cruel and oppressive; its observance will uplift everyone under its influence.

To do good to others, to forgive enemies, to love neighbors, to restrain passions, to honor parents, to respect authority, to return good for evil, not to cause anger, not to bear false witness, not to lie, not to steal, these are the essential elements of the moral law.

General Douglas A. MacArthur