Albert Pike Quotes
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.
Pike, Albert. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, 1871, p. 731.
Albert Pike was an American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and prominent member of the Freemasons. Pike was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded the District of Indian Territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War. He then served as an associate justice of the confederate Arkansas Supreme Court from 1864 until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederation in May 1865.