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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
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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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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If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
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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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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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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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Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
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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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Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!
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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.
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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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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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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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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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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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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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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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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
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Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.
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