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.
Albert PikeMasonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.
Albert PikeThe true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Albert PikeA war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A 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.
Albert Pike