Albert Pike quotes

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.

Albert Pike

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called liberty.

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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.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

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War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

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The universal medicine for the soul is the supreme reason and absolute justice, for the mind, mathematical and practical truth, for the body, the quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

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A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn, nor too far off, lest he freeze.

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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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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

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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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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 Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

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Faith begins where reason sinks exhausted.

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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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That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commence with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

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

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Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most me.

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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation, but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

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Will is the dynamic soul-force.

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

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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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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.

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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 ought else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

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Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

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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.

Albert Pike

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.

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Science deals only with phenomena, and is but charlatanism when it babbles about the powers or causes that produce these, or what the things are, in essence, of which it gives us merely the names.

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Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation. But very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

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The attachment to solitude is the surest preservative from the ills of life.

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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.

Albert Pike

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason And Absolute Justice,
for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth,
for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

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.

Albert Pike