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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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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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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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Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.
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The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
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There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
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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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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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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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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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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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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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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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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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A good man will find that there is goodness in the world an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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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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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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