Albert Pike
Albert Pike
Albert Pikewas an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth29 December 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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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.'
devastation degrees destruction
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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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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The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.
greatness envy reverence
Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.
kings destiny men
To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.
sympathy law-of-attraction principles
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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Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
mystery ancient masonry
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
mysterious holy form
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.
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Work only can keep even kings respectable.
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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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We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.
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Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.