If the effort also
If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. Albert Pike
Albert Pike
A war for a
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend. Albert Pike
The common right is
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
If the Soul sees,
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, … Read more
Masonry is not a
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it. Albert Pike
Know thou the self
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call “the enjoyer. … Read more
But the hour cometh,
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. Albert Pike
The word well spoken,
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. Albert Pike
Justice is peculiarly indispensable
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. Albert Pike
War is a series
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike