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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike
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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
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We live our little life but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us and Eternity is before us and behind us and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.
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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
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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 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'
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Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore. And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store The absent friends remembered be, in all that’s sung or said, And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead.
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Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
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Work only can keep even kings respectable.
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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
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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 those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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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 to them.
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We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
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