It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and learn the Truth, are the great objects of every good Mason.
Albert PikePride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Albert PikeWhat we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert PikeMan is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.
Albert PikeOur 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 Pike