Albert Pike Quotes

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• Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
• We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great…
• If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes…
• The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a…
• To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and…
• The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and…
• True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures,…
• Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It…
• Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans…
• Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize…
• The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears…
• Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which…
• To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more…
• The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
• But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such…
• One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
• War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
• Will is the dynamic soul-force.

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