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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. (Albert Pike)
Out of these explanations grew by degrees a variety of narrations, whose true object and meaning were gradually forgotten, or lost in contradictions and incongruities. View quote
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The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. View quote
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The business of the world absorbs, corrupts, and degrades one mind, while in another it feeds and nurses the noblest independency integrity, and generosity. Pleasure is a poison to some, and a healthful refreshment to others. View quote
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All hypotheses scientifically probable are the last gleams of the twilight of knowledge, or its last shadows. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. View quote
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Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. 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. View quote
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Genuine work alone, done faithfully, is eternal, even as the Almighty Founder and Worldbuilder Himself. View quote
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An unseen and infinite presence is here; a sense of something greater than we possess; a seeking, through all the void wastes of life, for a good beyond it; a crying out of the heart for interpretation; a memory of the dead, touching continually some vibrating thread in this great tissue of mystery. View quote
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The unknown is an ocean, of which conscience is the compass. Thought, meditation, prayer, are the great mysterious pointings of the needle. View quote
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All language is symbolic, so far as it is applied to mental and spiritual phenomena and action. View quote
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The true Mason labors for the benefit of those that are to come after him, and for the advancement and improvement of his race. (Albert Pike)
Except when the sluggish depths of the Human Mind are hroken up and tossed as with a storm, when at the appointed time a great Reformer comes, and a new Faith springs up and grows with supernatural energy, the progress of Truth is slower than the growth of oaks; and he who plants need not expect to gather. View quote
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Though Masonry neither usurps the place of, nor apes religion, prayer is an essential part of our ceremonies. View quote
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The obligation of the candidate is always to be taken on the sacred book or books of his religion, that he may deem it more solemn and binding; and therefore it was that you were asked of what religion you were. We have no other concern with your religious creed. View quote
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The two great motors are Truth and Love. View quote
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Life, to him, flashes, rejoicing, upon every flower and every tree that trembles in the breeze. There is more to him, everywhere, than the eye sees; a presence of profound joy, on hill and valley, and bright, dancing water. View quote
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. View quote
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You are to be true unto all men. You are to be frank and sincere in all things. You are to be earnest in doing whatever it is your duty to do. View quote
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The rest that follows labor should be sweeter than the rest which follows rest. View quote
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The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. View quote
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Nature owns no man who is not also a Martyr. (Albert Pike)
To attack the citadels built up on all sides against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices, the Force must have a brain and a law. Then its deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress. View quote
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Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation. View quote
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty. View quote
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Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves. In the vast cosmical changes the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, enveloping' all in the invisible mystery of the emanations, losing no dream from no single sleep, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating, and winding in curves; making a force of Light, and an element of Thought; disseminated and indivisible, dissolving all save that point without length, breadth, or thickness, The Myself ; reducing everything to the Soul-atom; making everything blossom into God; entangling all activities, from the highest to the lowest, in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism; hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth; subordinating, perhaps, if only by the identity of the law, the eccentric evolutions of the comet in the firmament, to the whirlings of the infusoria in the drop of water. View quote
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