We have for ages formed a society bound together by our peculiar tenets.

That we individually differ in conduct, and, therefore, probably in ideas, from our countrymen, they necessarily know; that we form a body apart with laws and tenets of our own, is at least suspected.

But our organisation, its powers, its methods, its rules of membership, and its doctrines are, and have always been, a secret, and no man's connection with it is avowed or provable.

Our chief distinctive and essential doctrines you hold as strongly as we do--the All-perfect Existence, the immortal human soul.
From these necessarily follow conceptions of life and principles of conduct alien to those that have as necessarily grown up among a race which repudiates, ignores, and hates our two fundamental premises.
After what has happened, I can promise you immediate and eager acceptance among those invested with the fullest privileges of our order.

They will all admire your action and applaud your motives, though, frankly speaking, I doubt whether any of us would carry your views so far as you have done.