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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 cause of life.

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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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Double
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Perpetual
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Sympathy
Life
Attraction
Principle
Creation
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Antipathy
Movement
Radiation

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