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.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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.
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 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.
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 .
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
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.
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .
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.
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 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.
That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.
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.
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.
Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
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 .
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.
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.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.
