A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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Albert Pike
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About Albert Pike
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in exile from 1864 to 1865. He had previously served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater. A prominent member of the Freemasons, Pike served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdictio…
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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.
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…
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
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 o…
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
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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.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.