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1809–1891 United States

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

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To organize Anarchy, is the problem which the revolutionists have and will eternally have to resolve.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

The rest that follows labor should be sweeter than the rest which follows rest.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

All hypotheses scientifically probable are the last gleams of the twilight of knowledge, or its last shadows. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

All language is symbolic, so far as it is applied to mental and spiritual phenomena and action.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Though Masonry neither usurps the place of, nor apes religion, prayer is an essential part of our ceremonies.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

The true Mason labors for the benefit of those that are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Nature owns no man who is not also a Martyr.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

To plant the trees that, after we are dead, shall shelter our children, is as natural as to love the shade of those our fathers planted.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

You are to be true unto all men.
You are to be frank and sincere in all things.
You are to be earnest in doing whatever it is your duty to do.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Pike (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.