Albert Pike
Albert Pike
Albert Pikewas an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Albert Pike is the only Confederate military officer with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth29 December 1809
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
heart men heaven
Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
strong stress struggle
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
war politics principles
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
real book men
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
religious belief masonry
Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
sympathy law-of-attraction principles
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.
mean men two
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
mystery ancient masonry
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
brother men white-man
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
philosophy masonry solomon
The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
morning selfish son
Strange and mysterious name to give to the spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!
brotherhood suffering sorrow
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.
men world creation
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
eye men cheerful
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.