Quotes from Albert Pike

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.

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.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

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 .

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

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.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

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.

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

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.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

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.

A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.

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

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.

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.

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.

porque sabiduría, fuerza y belleza, son la perfección de todo, y nada puede durar sin ellas." "Porque," el Rito de York dice, "es necesario que haya Sabiduría para concebir, fuerza para soportar y belleza para adornar todas las grandes e importantes empresas.

There are always more impostors than seers among public men, more false prophets than true ones, more prophets of Baal than of Jehovah; and Jerusalem is always in danger from the Assyrians.

No cesamos absurdamente de esforzarnos por conseguir riqueza o felicidad, prolongar la vida y continua salud, porque no podemos, por ningún esfuerzo, cambiar lo que está predestinado.

Lo desconocido es un océano, cuya brújula es la consciencia. Pensamiento, meditación, oración, son los grandes señalamientos misteriosos de su aguja.

Be laborious," it says, "like the Star, and procure the light of the Sages, and hide yourself from the Stupid Profane and the Ambitious, and be like the Owl, which sees only by night, and hides itself from treacherous curiosity.