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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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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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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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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
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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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For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.
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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 seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
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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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That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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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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That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.
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The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
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