Albert Pike - Morals and Dogma
Posted by Dan in fragments , tags: Albert Pike , morals and dogma , Scottish Rite , the company–publicata in 1871 ALBERT PIKE (n-m 1809 1892) - Morals and Dogma, published in 1871
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In the republic where people are promoted unprepared, incompetent and dishonest, who kowtow to the remains of some functions promised those who elected them will shed tears of blood for the mistake. The fruit of such madness will surely be condemned. If people can not do more, can at least vote to condemn them and to remove, demascandu them.
If it is considered as official functions are entitled as a reward for services to the party, they become a kind of prey for those concerned, a trophy, this disease state is installed in the body, and body mass comuntatii becomes corrupted. State that one must strive to not stray from the path of virtue and courage. Election Propaganda and functions immortal rush turns into a kind of trade with these functions, in which bribery and corruption gains momentum.
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In democracy people are eager to create popularity and occupy high positions in the desire to get rich. When individual welfare functions and become idols, and when most people unprepared and unfit to lead aspire to positions, and fraud becomes the middle according to the objective, the country will toil hard, in a climate of dishonesty and lying. When functions are accessible to all, merit and strict integrity, honesty dignity along with criteria will be to deal only rarely and accidentally. To be able to serve the country well, will cease to be a reason for higher man to be elected to lead. Other features less than honorable will be taken into consideration for this purpose, to adapt your opinions to please the people, to defend, excuse and justify madness of crowds, the magician, the flatter and flatter voter, the vote of any voter beg , to show your friend in front and then you hit from behind, slander - who knew it also processes base, put into practice until success is sure, instead of resorting to means honorable.
And the natural result of all these malversatiuni is a state of mediocrity ruin led to ignorance and superficiality, the cheeky conceit, the inability of politicians semidocti and immaturity.
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Perfidy and falitatea of public and political life we meet in private life. Political jockey will see their own interests first, and those who give confidence to know that he is a man that you can not count. His ambition is as vile as he, and therefore will seek to achieve without delay to dirty means to get their hands on things so much coveted as land, money, or reputation. In the latter function will not make good house with honor, and will break it. Place that the worthless, charlatans and crooks are considered fit and proper to occupy ceases to arouse the interest of talented and capable, or if not, they retire from competition, weapons that should go into battle not worthy to be used by man of integrity.
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It is strange that respect for truth, manhood and devotion, contempt for undue advantage, true faith and goodness of mind attenuates among the statesmen and people as freedom and civilization include areas becoming wider.
In the era of Queen Elizabeth, when there is universal suffrage or societies for the spread of useful knowledge, the statesman, merchant, citizen were as brave, fearing God and all people. They did not even last two hundred years and in a monarchy or republic of the same nation, no less than the dealer without courage, cunning speculator, hunter functions and people who fear God at all. Respect for the seriousness goes out and is followed by envy, each man desperately seeks the path of fame and wealth.
Fraud, suspicion and trick in public affairs are signs of decay states, and social convulsions precede or paralyze activities nationwide. You terrorize the weak and crouch before the strong-this is the policy of nations led by a humble mediocrity. Tricks for the position are again put to work in the Senate. Government becomes distributor of protection, especially for those unable, and people are bribed high officials instead of money, to the ruin of states. Divinity in human nature disappears, and interest, greed and selfishness are replacing them.
There are huge forces in large underground caverns of evil in society, there is degradation, misery, vice and crime which swarm in the deep darkness. In the shadow of big cities, in areas on the outskirts of society, objectivity disappears, each individual cry, orbecaie, searching, and struggling. Ideas do not interest anybody, and nobody thinks of progress. This lot of people have two mothers, both harsh: ignorance and misery. Poverty is what leads them and pressure them, people act only to satisfy the needs.
But sometimes even these wounds can be useful. Board and sand that is thrown in the oven can be a bright crystal fusion and purification by fire.
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Nations bodies are not only political but also political souls, and woe to those people who, seeking only what is material, look to have a soul.
There is then hardened into dogmas involving nations lack the soul and the presence only of memory and instinct. Such a nation demoralized by corruption and the desire to win, can not build a civilization. Ingenuchierea before the idol of money and muscle atrophy so that he will put in motion. Mercantile seizure glow weakens a people, he descends the horizon by reducing the level or lack of understanding and purpose it universal, both human and divine, which is building nations with high vocation.
A free people who forget to have a soul to care, he devoted all his energies in the direction of material progress. If you enter a war, do so in order to solve problems in the material plane. Citizens take that model and consider the state wealth, pomp and luxuriate as the most important goods of life. Such a nation creates wealth rapidly, but very poorly distributed. Occur when two extreme-poverty terrible monsters and opulence, all benefits and all privations few others, for the people. Privilege, exception, monopoly, derived from mining creates a dangerous situation. Public power over them is to be found, which puts the state on the greatness of the individual suffering. It is a greatness ill resulting from combining exclusive items that are not material and no moral element.
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If a people, like a star, goes through periods of eclipse, the light should not necessarily return. But eclipse should not degenerate into darkness.
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It is more difficult for people to keep demic freedom to gain.
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To establish the supremacy of intellect in a nation, certainly the only constiutie of perpetual freedom. For it will be that those who occupy positions in the highest society to focus efforts to ensure decent living conditions for those who are part of the most disadvantaged social strata. When the political class will protect all people, preventing them to degrade because of their weaknesses to the call of the senses, because of greed or base deeds, noble aspirations and restore their wise leadership. This way people will evolve, learning love, kindness and wisdom, gaining power depending on the degree of assimilation of knowledge, and so rough stone is born free State - this is the work of the masons want and need to stretch a hand help. We all have to shoulder high to the great monument of a nation. Cardinal virtues should not be shared between people, become the property of someone, like regular jobs, all will entrust all, everyone must learn what duty and honor.
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It's a bitter experience that is almost always preferable superficial man, full of itself and without shame, even in cases of great danger for the state, instead of a man of thorough training, with broad intellectual views, and this is because the first close to the common understanding of people who are unable to accept the highest truth.
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When Solon was asked whether his compatriots gave his best laws, he said:
"The best laws that they are able to receive them"
These words, recorded in history, known for their depth remaining, but like all great truths are simple rarely understood.
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Intelligence and the qualities of a people-people have a single measure that Providence gives great that people, and he is able to appreciate them. But people have always been too high for their time.
Masses look with little sympathy truths inalte.Adevarul the highest (as a superior man, in fact) is incomprehensible to ordinary man and well above its level, will appear as something disconnected from reality as a perceive it, and therefore consider it an untruth.
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Christianity, they say, when people start false idols burned. Education begins with the burning of idols of our moral and intellectual - that prejudices, conceptions, our goals vain and meaningless. It is necessary to give especially love of material goods.
With political power comes the desire to plan material acquisition. In this race people are always falling, rising, running in one and fall again. The thirst for wealth and poverty are terrible fear of deep wrinkles appear on their faces. People living like cars at a high pressure, living 100 years in 100 months; ledger is their Bible and prayer book becomes log notes the mornings.
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People have the brute force of a hammer, but his shots are useful only when the cause of great crush in the lines drawn by ruler handled wisely.
Rough stone symbolizes the people that rough and unorganized mass. Perfect stone or dirt, a symbol of perfection, is the state in which: leaders derive their power from the consent of the governed, the Constitution and laws express the will of the people, the government is harmonious, balanced and efficient, and its power properly distributed and adjusted balance.
