25 Quotes by Albert Pike
Albert Pike was an American lawyer, soldier, and writer who is best known for his involvement in the Freemasonry movement. Born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, Pike was a prominent figure in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry and served as its leader for many years. He is known for his influential writings on Masonic philosophy and for his contributions to the development of the organization's rituals and ceremonies. Pike was also a noted author and historian, and his book "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry" remains a classic text in Masonic literature. (Bio)
Albert Pike Quotes
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. (Meaning)
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.'
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. (Meaning)
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
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!
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.
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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.
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
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.
Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.
We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
― Albert Pike Quotes
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