Albert Pike Quotes

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• Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
• 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 double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual…
• He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed…
• A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
• Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
• That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
• Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and…
• Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
• Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
• Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
• The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought…
• Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like…
• I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
• Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at…
• It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and…
• There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of,…
• We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other…
• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of…
• The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

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