Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: First Three Degrees

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Bubbles that, bursting, impoverish multitudes, will be blown up by cunning knavery, with stupid credulity as its assistants and instrument. Titled Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma: Annotated Edition, the work was prepared by Arturo de Hoyos, 33° the Scottish Rite's Grand Archivist and Grand Historian. Review of: "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Prepared for The Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and Published by its Authority Hardcover – January 1, 1963," by Albert Pike. The three lesser, or the Sublime Lights, you have heard, are the Sun, the Moon, and the Master of the Lodge; and you have heard what our Brethren of the York Rite say in regard to them, and why they hold them to be Lights of the Lodge.

The former word also means he will establish, or plant in an erect position—from the verb [Hebrew] Ku-n, he stood erect. For me, this audio edition of Morals and Dogma has been essential to successfully completing the Master Craftsman educational course of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. Albert Pike, a prominent figure in American Freemasonry, served as the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite for several decades. If the parallel lines ever belonged to the ancient symbol, they had some more recondite and more fruitful meaning. It is customary, in Lodges of the York Rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the Temple.

While Albert Pike’s assumptions, interpretations, and biases have rendered an imperfect compendium of esoteric spiritual and political thought, it remains a must-read for any Mason seeking to fully understand the intellectual tradition of our Craft. The nations are not bodies-politic alone, but also souls-politic; and woe to that people which, seeking the material only, forgets that it has a soul. It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" [Matthew 6:21]; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

Make a breach in either, and the great steam-hammer, with its swift and ponderous blows, crushes all the machinery to atoms, and, at last, wrenching itself away, lies inert and dead amid the ruin it has wrought. The original printing had 861 pages of text, while a 218-page Digest-Index was added by Trevanion W.

Quizá Jacques de Molay y sus comilitones fueron mártires, pero sus vengadores deshonraron su memoria. and, afterward as aforesaid, count the twelve trembling bell-strokes of our experience, our life, our being—and alas! In summary, "Morals and Dogma" by Albert Pike serves as a profound exploration of the moral, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions of Freemasonry.

Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. Knowledge and initiations such as this, Pike claims in Morals and Dogma, functioned as a cohesive force in the classical world and therefore deserve to be revived and revered within the Masonic tradition, which he saw as the modern vehicle for the teachings of these related spiritual streams. Hardbound (8" x 10") with decorative covers, printed in two colors; illustrated, indexed; 1116 pages. It became the sacred and potent sign or character of the Magi, the PENTALPHA, and is the significant emblem of Liberty and Freedom, blazing with a steady radiance amid the weltering elements of good and evil of Revolutions, and promising serene skies and fertile seasons to the nations, after the storms of change and tumult. To reconcile the moral law, human responsibility, free-will, with the absolute power of God; and the existence of evil with His absolute wisdom, and goodness, and mercy,—these are the great enigmas of the Sphynx.Yet it is this very Force of the people, this Titanic power of the giants, that builds the fortifications of tyrants, and is embodied in their armies.