"Intellect is to the people and the people's Force, what the slender needle of the compass is to the ship—its soul, always counselling the huge mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the north. To attack the citadels built up on all sides against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices, the Force must have a brain and a law. Then its deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress. Then there are sublime conquests. Thought is a force, and philosophy should be an energy, finding its aim and its effects in the amelioration of mankind. The two great motors are Truth and Love. When all these Forces are combined, and guided by the Intellect, and regulated by the RULE of Right, and Justice, and of combined and systematic movement and effort, the great revolution prepared for by the ages will begin to march. The POWER of the Deity Himself is in equilibrium with His WISDOM. Hence the only results are HARMONY."
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Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871) Ch. I. Apprentice, The Twelve-Inch Rule and Common Gavel, pp. 1-2. Also published as The Magnum Opus or the Great Work of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
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