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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. — Albert Pike

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. — Albert Pike

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

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

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 . — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah. — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices. — Albert Pike

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 — Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks. — Albert Pike

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

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. — Albert Pike

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection. — Albert Pike

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

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves. — Albert Pike

All religious expression is symbolism. — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. — Albert Pike

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries — Albert Pike

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

We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter. — Albert Pike

Will is the dynamic soul-force. — Albert Pike

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. — Albert Pike

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

Masonry is not a religion.
He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. — Albert Pike

Work only can keep even kings respectable. — Albert Pike

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light. — Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. — Albert Pike

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

That which we do for ourselves dies with us ... that which we do for others lives forever. — Albert Pike

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it. — Albert Pike

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. — Albert Pike

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. — Albert Pike

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

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . — Albert Pike

The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded. — Albert Pike