Albert Pike Morals And Dogma Quotes

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

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

Will is the dynamic soul-force. ~ Albert Pike

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. ~ Zebulon Pike

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

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries ~ Albert Pike

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

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. ~ Albert Pike

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

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. ~ Albert Pike

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

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! ~ Albert Pike

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ~ 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

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

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

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 . ~ Albert Pike

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. ~ 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

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

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. ~ Albert Pike

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ~ 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

Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him ... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form ... the Universe. ~ 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

Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses ~ Albert Pike

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

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

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

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

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

Let us drink together, fellows, as we did in days of yore.
And still enjoy the golden hours that Fortune has in store;
The absent friends remembered be, in all that's sung or said,
And Love immortal consecrate the memory of the dead. ~ Albert Pike

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. ~ Albert Einstein

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers. ~ Albert Pike

Out with it, Tarrou! What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals? What code?"
"Comprehension."
Camus, Albert (2012-08-08). The Plague (Vintage International) (Kindle Locations 1767-1769). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ~ Albert Camus

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. ~ Albert Pike

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ~ Albert Pike

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar. p. 105 ~ Pike, Albert

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?"
"I don't know. My ... my code of morals, perhaps."
"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?"
"Comprehension. ~ Albert Camus

To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.' ~ Albert Pike

The Universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. ~ Albert Pike

The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, 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! For traditions are full of Divne Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspirations is not of one Age or of one Creed.
p. 321 ~ Pike, Albert

Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason. ~ Albert Pike

A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. If it makes war, it is to subserve its commercial interests. The citizens copy after the State, and regard wealth, pomp, and luxury as the great goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, and distributes it badly. ~ Albert Pike

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. ~ Albert Pike

My world's not worth saving without you. ~ Aprilynne Pike

Tamani?" she asked, even though she knew this was the wrong time. "How is a plant supposed to beat a superstrong troll? ~ Aprilynne 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

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. ~ Albert Pike

Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open. ~ Aprilynne Pike

The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves ... In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light. ~ Albert Pike

For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave. ~ Albert Pike

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 Blue Degrees are but the outer court ... of the temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretation. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine that he understands them ... The true explanation is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry (those of the 32nd and 33rd degrees) ~ Albert Pike

It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic. ~ Aprilynne Pike

There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest. ~ Albert Pike

Marx's scientific Messianism is itself of bourgeois origin. Progress, the future of science, the cult of technology and
of production, are bourgeois myths, which in the nineteenth century became dogma. ~ Albert Camus

Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais. ~ Albert Pike

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about. ~ Christopher Pike

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead. ~ Christopher Pike

Religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The doctrines of the Bible are often clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. A perfectly pure faith, free from all extraneous admixtures, a system of noble theism and lofty morality, would find too little preparation for it in the common mind and heart. ~ Albert Pike

Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them. ~ Albert Pike

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. ~ Albert Pike

Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred. ~ Christopher Pike

It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years. ~ Marty Rubin

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, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. ~ Albert Pike

To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man. ~ Albert Pike

That you don't believe does not change the truth. ~ Aprilynne Pike

The dead might bleed, but they never cry. ~ Christopher Pike

Are you glad to see me? ~ Aprilynne Pike

This person interrogating you is Chelsea, by the way. Hi, Chelse. ~ Aprilynne Pike

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. ~ Jean-Marie Lehn

Then you should have never been born ~ Christopher Pike

I dont want to die"
"Then you shouldnt have been born ~ Christopher Pike

Thank you for the exquisite comfort of your kitchen floor. ~ Aprilynne Pike

These aren't cupcake sprinkles. ~ Aprilynne Pike

Love me...I am not evil. ~ Christopher Pike

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards. ~ Donald L. Hicks

There is no room in research for morals. Morals cloud judgement. Morals taint conclusions. Morals define unwanted prejudices. They are not welcome in any lab of mine. ~ Edward Martin III

It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said.
A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought. ~ Christopher Pike

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. ~ E. O. Wilson

But with me, you are never just a spring faerie. ~ Aprilynne Pike

When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy. ~ Christopher Pike

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off. ~ Christopher Pike

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Holy Hecate, petals, branches, and breath," Tamani swore, his face lined with concern. "You can do that? ~ Aprilynne Pike

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. ~ Albert Pike

What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true. That ~ G.K. Chesterton

I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you. ~ Aprilynne Pike

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy. ~ Albert Ellis

The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought! ~ Albert Pike

Talk about doomed love. He's gay, she's dead, stay tuned. ~ Aprilynne Pike

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. ~ Christopher Pike

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off. ~ Christopher Pike

I know I've got loads that has never been tapped. ~ Rosamund Pike

I was unhappy and I didn't even know it ~ Vargus Pike

Happiness can make us feel big and sure of ourselves, but only pain gives us depth. ~ Christopher Pike

Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe. ~ Milton Sanford Mayer