We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The Blue Degrees are but the outer court...of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
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