It is GENIUS that gets POWER; and its prime lieutenants are FORCE and WISDOM. The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.
It is GENIUS that rules with Godlike power; that unveils, with its counselors, the hidden human mysteries, cuts asunder with its word the huge knots, and builds up with its word the crumbled ruins. At its glance fall down the senseless idols, whos altars have been on all the high places and ina ll the sacred groves. dishonesty and imbecillity stand abashed before it. Its single Yea or Nay revokes the wrongs of the ages, and is heard among the future generations. Its power is immense, because its wisdom is immense. Genius is the sun of the political sphere. Force and Wisdom, its ministers, are the orbs that carry its light into the darkness, and answer it with their solid reflecting TRUTH.
The mastery of mind over mind is the only conquest worth having .
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
-Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
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