The Thirty-first and Thirty-second degrees are the
last of the Four Bodies and are Official and Ceremonial
Degrees.
They are the culmination, summing up as it were, of all
the previous degrees. They Royal Secret, like the occult science of the
ancients, is concealed even here, but remember, "Faith begins where reason
sinks exhausted." The Star of Hope shines for us as it did for the Wise
Men of the East two thousand years ago. Today, as in the first days of
creation, good and evil, right and wrong, justice and mercy, balance each
other to teach us to remember ourselves as immortal souls, retaining for
each other respect and charity while slowly climbing to that state of
perfection - the final goal for all.
