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\u201cA war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 70; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cA war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend<\/span>. Commercial greed values the lives of men no more than it values the lives of ants. The slave-trade is as acceptable to a people enthralled by that greed, as the trade in ivory or spices, if the profits are as large. It will by-and-by endeavor to compound with God and quiet its own conscience, by compelling those to whom it sold the slaves it bought or stole, to set them free, and slaughtering them by hecatombs if they refuse to obey the edicts of its philanthropy.\u201d (p. 70)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n85\/mode\/2up\/search\/commercial+supremacy<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cHypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 73; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cHypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice<\/span>. It is Satan attempting to clothe himself in the angelic vesture of light. It is equally detestable in morals, politics, and religion; in the man and in the nation. To do injustice under the pretense of equity and fairness; to reprove vice in public and commit it in private; to pretend to charitable opinion and censoriously condemn; to profess the principles of Masonic beneficence, and close the ear to the wail of distress and the cry of suffering; to eulogize the intelligence of the people, and plot to deceive and betray them by means of their ignorance and simplicity; to prate of purity, and peculate; of honor, and basely abandon a sinking cause; of disinterestedness, and sell one\u2019s vote for place and power, are hypocrisies as common as they are infamous and disgraceful.\u201d (p. 73)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/span><\/strong><\/em>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n87\/mode\/2up\/search\/homage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cJustice 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 72; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cJustice 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<\/span>.\u201d (p. 72)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n87\/mode\/2up\/search\/indispensable+to+nations<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIntellect is to the people and the people\u2019s force what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship \u2013 its soul, always counseling the huge mass of wood and ion, and always pointing to the north.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 1; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cThe blind Force of the people is a Force that must be economized, and also managed, as the blind Force of steam, lifting the ponderous iron arms and turning the large wheels, is made to bore and rifle the cannon and to weave the most delicate lace. It must be regulated by Intellect . Intellect is to the people and the people\u2019s force what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship \u2013 its soul, always counseling the huge mass of wood and ion, and always pointing to the north<\/span>.\u201d (p. 1)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/span><\/strong>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n15\/mode\/2up\/search\/intellect+is+to+the+people<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cLess glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 3; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay] \u201cSo a people willingly submits to despotism, and its workmen submit to be despised, and its soldiers to be whipped; therefore it is that battles lost by a nation are often progress attained. Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks<\/span>.\u201d (p. 3)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n17\/mode\/2up\/search\/drum<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThere are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we <\/em>take note of; if we would but find them out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cApprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel\u201d (1871) in Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em>, Richmond, VA: L.H. Jenkins reprint, June 1946, p. 192; online via Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Essay \u2013 Pike is referring to Freemasons, a fraternal club. Italics original to text.]\n

\u201cThere are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we <\/em>take note of; if we would but find them out.<\/span> And it is one part of our Masonic culture to find<\/em> these traits of power and sublime devotion, to revive these faded impressions of generosity and self-sacrifice, the almost squandered bequests of God\u2019s love and kindness to our souls; and to induce us to yield ourselves t their guidance and control.\u201d (p. 192)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: \u201cPrepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry<\/em> (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page\/n207\/mode\/2up\/search\/There+are+greater<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhat we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Albert Pike<\/strong>, American author & attorney<\/p>\n

\u201cEx Corde Locutiones. In Lodge of Sorrow at Washington\u201d (30 March 1860) in Ex Corde Locutiones. Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren,<\/em> Washington, D.C.: Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1897, p. 11; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Pike\u2019s essay tribute to fellow Mason \u201cGrand Master\u201d John Anthony Quitman, who had died in July 1858.]\n

\u201cWhat we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal<\/span>.<\/p>\n

No man, however lofty or however humble, can isolate himself from his kind, and, shutting himself up in the dark cell of his exclusiveness, determine to live for himself alone.\u201d (p.11)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: The book\u2019s subheading: \u201cBy the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the 33d Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. 1860 to 1891\u201d. According to the text preface, Pike was a \u201cGrand Commander\u201d of the Masons for thirty-two years until his death in 1891.<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren <\/em>(1860) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=czM1AQAAMAAJ&q=alone+dies#v=snippet&q=alone%20dies&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”] Learn more about Albert Pike <\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n