There are always more impostors than seers among public men, more false prophets than true ones

“There are always more impostors than seers among public men, more false prophets than true ones, more prophets of Baal than of wolves-in-sheeps-clothingJehovah; and Jerusalem is always in danger from the Assyrians.”

By Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

An ignoble oligarchy, enriched by the distresses of the State, and fattened on the miseries of the people

Every commonwealth must have its periods of trial and transition, especially if it engages in war.oligarchy

It is certain at some time to be wholly governed by agitators appealing to all the baser elements of the popular nature; by moneyed corporations; by those enriched by the depreciation of government securities or paper; by small attorneys, schemers, money-jobbers, speculators, and adventurers—an ignoble oligarchy, enriched by the distresses of the State, and fattened on the miseries of the people. (more…)

This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth

This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the human-energyother invisible and transcendent.

The latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of archæus, and may be called a vital body.

This etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. These “etheric doubles, “seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. (more…)

To be great is to be misunderstood

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?Pythagoras 3

Pythagoras was misunderstood; and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.”

By Ralph Waldo Emerson