Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXXII : Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret
“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
IV, 5
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
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