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Albert Pike Quote: “Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.”

51. “Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “Will is the dynamic soul-force.”

52. “Will is the dynamic soul-force.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.”

53. “Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.”

55. “If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.”

58. “If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.”

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

59. “There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.”

61. “The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .”

62. “Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “If you would understand the true secrets of Alchemy, you must study the works of the Masters with patience and assiduity. Every word is often an enigma; and to him who reads in haste, the whole will seem absurd. Even when they seem to teach that the Great Work is the purification of the Soul, and so deal only with morals, they most conceal their meaning, and deceive all but the Initiates.”

65. “If you would understand the true secrets of Alchemy, you must study the works of the Masters with patience and assiduity. Every word is often an enigma; and to him who reads in haste, the whole will seem absurd. Even when they seem to teach that the Great Work is the purification of the Soul, and so deal only with morals, they most conceal their meaning, and deceive all but the Initiates.”

— Albert Pike

Albert Pike Quote: “What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.”

66. “What is truth to the philosopher, would not be Truth, nor have the effect of Truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in the essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied.”

— Albert Pike

Albert Pike Quote: “A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”

67. “A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.”

68. “Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations.”

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

69. “We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “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.”

70. “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

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

71. “That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.”

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Albert Pike Quote: “She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.”

72. “She must, above all things, be just, not truckling to the strong and warring on or plundering the weak; she must act on the square with all nations, and the feeblest tribes; always keeping her faith, honest in her legislation, upright in all her dealings. Whenever such a Republic exists, it will be immortal: for rashness, injustice, intemperance and luxury in prosperity, and despair and disorder in adversity, are the causes of the decay and dilapidation of nations.”

— Albert Pike

Albert Pike Quote: “Constitutions and Laws, without Genius and Intellect to govern, will not prevent decay. In that case they have the dry-rot and the life dies out of them by degrees.”

73. “Constitutions and Laws, without Genius and Intellect to govern, will not prevent decay. In that case they have the dry-rot and the life dies out of them by degrees.”

— Albert Pike

Albert Pike Quote: “The absolute in reason and will is the greatest power which is given to men to attain; and it is by means of this power that what the multitude admires under the name of miracles, are effected.”

74. “The absolute in reason and will is the greatest power which is given to men to attain; and it is by means of this power that what the multitude admires under the name of miracles, are effected.”

— Albert Pike

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