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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
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
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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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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
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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 honorable than rank and title.
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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 learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
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Justice to others and to ourselves is the same that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses
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The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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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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Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
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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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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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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 is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
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Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
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