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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.

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

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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)

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