80 Albert Pike Quotes To Inspire You [Author of Morals and Dogma]
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Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons. Pike was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
Some of his famous and renowned works include ‘Indo-Aryan Deities, ‘Hymns to the God,’ and Worship as Contained in the Rig-Veda,’ ‘Reprints of Old Rituals,’ and ‘Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite’ amongst various others.
These Albert Pike quotes on truth, death, life, creation, war, and faith, racism and more will inspire you. Don’t forget to also read our collection of Buddha quotes that will inspire you to be calm and act with compassion and love.
Famous Albert Pike Quotes
- “Will is the dynamic soul-force.” ― Albert Pike
Albert Pike Quotes
- “All religious expression is symbolism.” ― Albert Pike
- “A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.” ― Albert Pike
- “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” ― Albert Pike
- “We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.” ― Albert Pike
Inspirational Quotes by Albert Pike
- “The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.” ― Albert Pike
- “We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.” ― Albert Pike
- “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.” ― Albert Pike
- “One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a world in miniature.” ― Albert Pike
- “There is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.” ― 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
Famous Quotes By Albert Pike
- “The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.” ― Albert Pike
- “There is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.” ― Albert Pike ,Morals And Dogma
- “There are three typical rebels: The rebel against Nature; The rebel against Knowledge; and the rebel against Truth.” ― Albert Pike
- “A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; not too far off, lest he freeze.” ― Albert Pike
- “Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.” ― 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
What we do for ourselves dies with us quotes
- “Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.” ― Albert Pike
- “A human thought is an actual existence, and a force and power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.” ― 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
- “To present a visible symbol to the eye of another, is not necessarily to inform him of the meaning which that symbol has to you.” ― 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
- “There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.” ― 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
- “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
- “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
- “Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Albert Pike Morals And Dogma
- “Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.” ― Albert Pike
- “If his country should be robbed of her liberties, he should still not despair. The protest of the Right against the Fact persists forever.” ― Albert Pike, Morals And Dogma
- “Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “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 .” ― 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 unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “That which we do for ourselves dies with us … that which we do for others lives forever.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “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
- “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
- “What is truth to me is not truth to another. The same arguments and evidences that convince one mind make no impression on another.” ― Albert Pike, Morals And Dogma (Chapter 10)
- “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
- “It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.” ― Albert Pike
- “The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create tyrants, and consolidate their power.” ― 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
- “I am Isis, Queen of this country. I was instructed by Mercury. No one can destroy the laws which I have established. I am the eldest daughter of Saturn, most ancient of the Gods.” ― 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
- “The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme reason and absolute justice for the mind, mathematical and practical truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.” ― Albert Pike
- “A good man will find that there is goodness in the world; an honest man will find that there is honesty in the world; and a man of principle will find principle and integrity in the hearts of others.” ― Albert Pike
- “We live our little life; but Heaven is above us and all around and close to us; and Eternity is before us and behind us; and suns and stars are silent witnesses and watchers over us. We are enfolded by Infinity.” ― 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
- “Masonry, like all the religions, all the mysteries,… conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be mislead.” ― Albert Pike
- “We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations (people of different nationalities), the effects of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.” ― Albert Pike
- “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
- “True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure. The spirit is thought; thought is the heart; the heart is the fire; the fire is the Elixir.” ― 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
- “Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.” ― Albert Pike
- “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
- “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
- “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 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.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “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
- “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
- “To be able to serve the country well, will cease to be a reason why the great and wise and learned should be selected to render service… contested elections are decided by perjured votes of party considerations; and all the practices of the worst times of corruption are revived and exaggerated in Republics.” ― Albert Pike, Morals And Dogma
- “That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.” ― Albert 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
- “The third world war must be formented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic world. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other.” ― Albert Pike
- “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
- “We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth..” ― Albert Pike
- “What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind itself is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man’s perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.” ― Albert Pike
- “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.” ― 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
- “Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage…To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.” ― Albert Pike
- “Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.” ― 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, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “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
- “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, 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, Morals And Dogma
- “The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally mislead by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. The true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry.” ― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
- “Toleration, holding that every other man has the same right to his opinion and faith that we have to ours; and liberality, holding that as no human being can with certainty say, in the clash and conflict of hostile faiths and creeds, what is truth, or that he is surely in possession of it, so everyone should feel that it is quite possible that another equally honest and sincere with himself, and yet holding the contrary opinion, may himself be in possession of the truth.” ― 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
- “The Second World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists. This war must be brought about so that Nazism is destroyed and that the political Zionism be strong enough to institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine. During the Second World War, International Communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.” ― Albert Pike
- “Thus the scientific theories of the ancients, expounded in the Mysteries, as to the origin of the soul, its descent, its sojourn here below, and its return, were not a mere barren contemplation of the nature of the world, and of the intelligent beings existing there. They were not an idle speculation as to the order of the world, and about the soul, but a study of the means for arriving at the great object proposed, the perfecting of the soul; and, as a necessary consequence, that of morals and society. This Earth, to them, was not the Soul’s home, but its place of exile. Heaven was its home, and there was its birth-place. To it, it ought incessantly to turn its eyes. Man was not a terrestrial plant. His roots were in Heaven. The soul had lost its wings, clogged by the viscosity of matter. It would recover them when it extricated itself from matter and commenced its upward flight.” ― Albert Pike, Morals And Dogma
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