Albert Pike

Date of Birth:

29-Dec-1809

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Writer

Pike's arrest of the Indians led to events that changed his life. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed by the Indian Foreign Affairs Commission of the Confederacy of India. He succeeded in gaining the majority of the Arkansas tribes over the Confederacy, and, after gaining general command, organized and armed certain Indian tribes. In early March 1862, as a result of his opposition to the fact that the Indians had agreed to fight only to defend their territory, the Pike factions were ordered to take part in offending the Confederate. On March 7, during the battle of Pea Ridge, northwest of Arkansas, the Indians were evacuated to death, a tragedy that has left Pike lifelong. On March 15, 1862, the Boston Evening Transcript doubted that "the predator was more venomous than Albert Pike."

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

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection."

"The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God ."

"To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General (33rd Degree Masons), we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees: 'The Masonic religion should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine.'"