We avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter. Albert Pike More Quotes by Albert Pike More Quotes From Albert Pike A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. Albert Pike rehabilitation principles war That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant. Albert Pike effects lasts life-is 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 temptation bravery enemy 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 energy fire heart Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . Albert Pike hypocrisy vices justice 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 unjust teaching justice Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion. Albert Pike masonic temples teaching Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah. Albert Pike masonry light Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves. 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 spirit worship father Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. Albert Pike indispensable nations justice Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness. Albert Pike reverence envy greatness Work only can keep even kings respectable. Albert Pike kings respectable If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will. Albert Pike free-will effort made We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it. Albert Pike knows lost mean Masonry is not a religion. Albert Pike masonry belief religious Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. Albert Pike exhausted faith reason 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 circles squares justice 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 rising earth order 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. Albert Pike horse wise men
