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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!
Albert Pike
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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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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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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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Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
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Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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