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Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason.

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The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole.

Moving, Perfect, Together, Cause, Parts, Complete

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Book, Books, Knowledge, Men, Real, Remains

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.

Angel, Angels, Generation, Occult, Omnipotence, Secret

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Alone, Dies, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, World

Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer.

Body, Enjoyer, Horse, Men, Sense, Wise

The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves. . . In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.

Book, Latter, Light, Materials, Sources, Teaching

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.

Memories, Destiny, Men, Age, Punishment, Dwelt

One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

Creation, Men, Miniature, World

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.

Heart, Heaven, Incomprehensible, Men, Sacredness, Sublimity

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

Bravery, Enemy, Spirit, Temptation, Temptations

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

Base, Dies, Envy, Greatness, Reverence

We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth. . .

Art, Magic, Spring, Stars, Strange, Suns

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

Circles, Define, Duties, Justice, Lines, Squares

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws. Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.

Christian, Stars, Lying, Reveres, Star

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.

Degrees, Devastation, Imperceptible, Produced, Rapid, Violent

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

Artist, Genius, Men, Philosophers, Poets, Professional

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.

Common, Fraternity, Pouring, Rays

Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage. . . To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.

Style, May, Paganism, Linage, Numerous, Identical

It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.

Foundation, Masonic, Truth Is, True, Divine, Truth

That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.

Dies, Forever, Lives

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