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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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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
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Boston
Massachusetts
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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.
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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 to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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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 with each other.
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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 slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
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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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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 mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call the enjoyer.
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
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The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.
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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, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought thought is the heart the heart is the fire the fire is the Elixir.
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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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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 as Brothers.
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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
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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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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
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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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Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
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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
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