Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe Crรateur is identical with the Principe Gรnรrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.
Albert PikeThe 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.
Albert PikeWe avoid sensuousness, only by resorting to simple negation. We come at last to define spirit by saying that it is not matter.
Albert PikeThe true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Albert Pike