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Albert Pike
Age: 81 †
Born: 1809
Born: December 29
Died: 1891
Died: April 2
Lawyer
Boston
Massachusetts
A. Pike
Symbolism
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Religious

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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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Will is the dynamic soul-force.
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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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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.
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Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
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Pride is not the heritage of man humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
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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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There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.
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Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
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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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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
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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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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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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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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.
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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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Work only can keep even kings respectable.
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