Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by… — 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
