Extended excerpt: [Essay] “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. Commercial greed values the lives of men no more than it values the lives of ants. The slave-trade is as acceptable to a people enthralled by that greed, as the trade in ivory or spices, if the profits are as large. It will by-and-by endeavor to compound with God and quiet its own conscience, by compelling those to whom it sold the slaves it bought or stole, to set them free, and slaughtering them by hecatombs if they refuse to obey the edicts of its philanthropy.” (p. 70)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n85/mode/2up/search/commercial+supremacy

Extended excerpt: [Essay] “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice. It is Satan attempting to clothe himself in the angelic vesture of light. It is equally detestable in morals, politics, and religion; in the man and in the nation. To do injustice under the pretense of equity and fairness; to reprove vice in public and commit it in private; to pretend to charitable opinion and censoriously condemn; to profess the principles of Masonic beneficence, and close the ear to the wail of distress and the cry of suffering; to eulogize the intelligence of the people, and plot to deceive and betray them by means of their ignorance and simplicity; to prate of purity, and peculate; of honor, and basely abandon a sinking cause; of disinterestedness, and sell one’s vote for place and power, are hypocrisies as common as they are infamous and disgraceful.” (p. 73)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n87/mode/2up/search/homage 

Extended excerpt: [Essay] “Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.” (p. 72)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n87/mode/2up/search/indispensable+to+nations

Extended excerpt: [Essay] “The blind Force of the people is a Force that must be economized, and also managed, as the blind Force of steam, lifting the ponderous iron arms and turning the large wheels, is made to bore and rifle the cannon and to weave the most delicate lace. It must be regulated by Intellect . Intellect is to the people and the people’s force what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship – its soul, always counseling the huge mass of wood and ion, and always pointing to the north.” (p. 1)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n15/mode/2up/search/intellect+is+to+the+people

Extended excerpt: [Essay] “So a people willingly submits to despotism, and its workmen submit to be despised, and its soldiers to be whipped; therefore it is that battles lost by a nation are often progress attained. Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.” (p. 3)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n17/mode/2up/search/drum

Extended excerpt: [Essay – Pike is referring to Freemasons, a fraternal club. Italics original to text.]

“There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out. And it is one part of our Masonic culture to find these traits of power and sublime devotion, to revive these faded impressions of generosity and self-sacrifice, the almost squandered bequests of God’s love and kindness to our souls; and to induce us to yield ourselves t their guidance and control.” (p. 192)

Source note: Pike’s book title is followed by the subheading: “Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority.”

Source link: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871|1946 LH Jenkins reprint) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/moralsdogmaofanc00pike#page/n207/mode/2up/search/There+are+greater

Extended excerpt: [Pike’s essay tribute to fellow Mason “Grand Master” John Anthony Quitman, who had died in July 1858.]

“What we have done for ourselves alone, dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal.

No man, however lofty or however humble, can isolate himself from his kind, and, shutting himself up in the dark cell of his exclusiveness, determine to live for himself alone.” (p.11)

Source note: The book’s subheading: “By the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of the 33d Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. 1860 to 1891”. According to the text preface, Pike was a “Grand Commander” of the Masons for thirty-two years until his death in 1891.

Source link: Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren (1860) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=czM1AQAAMAAJ&q=alone+dies#v=snippet&q=alone%20dies&f=false