Albert Pike Quotes

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

Phenomena are constantly folded back upon themselves.

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

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.

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 .

Man’s real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

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.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

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.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

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.

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.