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We Try Not To Believe, Because We Do Not Understand"

    Greetings and welcome back as we continue chapter 26 of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma!      As we continue, we will find Pike continuing his discourse on the mysteries of deity.       Pike continues to ask a series of rhetorical questions regarding the forms of nature, of self, and of deity.      Without more delay, LET’S READ PIKE!           p. 529 What do we know of Substance? Men even doubt yet whether it exists. Philosophers tell us that our senses make known to us only the  attributes  of substance, extension, hardness, color, and the like; but not the  thing itself  that is extended, solid, black or white; as we know the  attributes  of the Soul, its thoughts and its perceptions, and not the Soul itself which perceives and thinks. What a wondrous mystery is there in heat and light, existing, we know not how, within certain limits, narrow...