Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1 Quotes

“Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. The work of the great Ghibellin is a declaration of war against the Papacy, by bold revelations of the Mysteries.”
― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1

“Thus the Order of the Knights of the Temple was at its very origin devoted to the cause of opposition to the tiara of Rome and the crowns of Kings, and the Apostolate of Kabalistic Gnosticism was vested in its chiefs. For Saint John himself was the Father of the Gnostics, and the current translation of his polemic against the heretical of his Sect and the pagans who denied that Christ was the Word, is throughout a misrepresentation, or misunderstanding, at least, of the whole Spirit of that Evangel. The tendencies and tenets of the Order were enveloped in profound mystery, and it externally professed the most perfect orthodoxy. The Chiefs alone knew the aim of the Order: the Subalterns followed them without distrust.”
― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1

“Synesius traces the plan of a treatise on dreams, which was subsequently to be commented on by Cardan, and composes hymns which might serve for liturgy of the Church of Swedenborg, if a church of illuminati could have a liturgy.”
― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1

“There are always more impostors than seers among public men, more false prophets than true ones, more prophets of Baal than of Jehovah; and Jerusalem is always in danger from the Assyrians.”
― Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry 1