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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1874 Edition.
This is Albert Pikes' volume of 'lectures' on the esoteric roots of
Freemasonry, specifically the 32-degree Scottish Rite. Until 1964,
this book was given to every Mason completing the 14th degree in
the Southern jurisdiction of the US Scottish Rite Freemasons.
Masonic lectures are standard oral presentations given during
initiation to a new degree. Lectures provide background material
for initiates and the discuss duties of the degree in general
terms. Pike states right off that half of the text is copied from
other works. Unfortunately none of these quotes are properly cited,
and in most cases it is only a shift in style which allows us to
identify a quote. There are also lapses of fact and logic. So it
would be a mistake to use this work as an authoritative source
without additional research and critical thinking. That said,
Morals and Dogma is a huge, rambling treasure-house of esoteric
data, particularly on the Kabalah and ancient Mystery religions.
Whether you just browse these pages or study it from one end to the
other, this is a must-read book for anyone looking for long-lost
knowledge.
Morals and Dogma has been described as "a collection of thirty-two
essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees
(membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The
lectures provided a backdrop for the degrees by giving lessons in
comparative religion, history, and philosophy."
There are other things that you should hear said now, and without
which you will not be fully in possession of this degree... You
will find them in the Legenda... (quote from the 26th degree, AASR,
SMJ). This book contains ALL of the "Legenda" and "Readings"
written for members of the Scottish Rite to supplement the
ritualistic instruction. This anthology is similar, in some
respects, to Pike's Lectures on Masonic Symbolism, but was
considered REQUIRED READING by Pike himself. No Mason can truly
understand the Scottish Rite degrees without reading this essential
work.
The missing secret sections of Pike's 1872 Craft ritual, "The Porch
and the Middle Chamber. The Book of the Lodge." For the first time
the authentic Secret Work is now available for the Scottish Rite
version of the Blue degrees. This book merges both missing books
into one and deciphers them for the first time. If you own our
"Porch and the Middle Chamber: The Book of the Lodge," this book is
a must.
THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Lectures of the
Arya, by Albert Pike. To purchase the entire book, please order
ISBN 1564591824.
There are other things that you should hear said now, and without
which you will not be fully in possession of this degree... You
will find them in the Legenda... (quote from the 26th degree, AASR,
SMJ). This book contains ALL of the "Legenda" and "Readings"
written for members of the Scottish Rite to supplement the
ritualistic instruction. This anthology is similar, in some
respects, to Pike's Lectures on Masonic Symbolism, but was
considered REQUIRED READING by Pike himself. No Mason can truly
understand the Scottish Rite degrees without reading this essential
work.
THIS 66 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Magnum Opus or
the Great Work, by Albert Pike. To purchase the entire book, please
order ISBN 1564592456.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
For the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the
Southern Jurisdiction. This rare work includes all the monitorial
instructions for the three Craft Degrees according to the Scottish
Rite, and is intended to supplement Pike's Book of the Lodge. Much
more complete than the common Webb-form (York Rite) monitors, this
work contains large ritualistic extracts and symbolic diagrams
which, with the aforementioned work, assist the student to
reconstruct the rituals.
THIS 32 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Magnum Opus or
the Great Work, by Albert Pike. To purchase the entire book, please
order ISBN 1564592456.
If you're a Thirty-second Degree Mason you may THINK that you've
received all the Scottish Rite degrees, but chances are you
haven't. Why? Unknown to most people, Albert Pike also wrote
Scottish Rite rituals for the three Blue Lodge Degrees. In Pike's
words, these Scottish Rite Blue Lodge rituals were "to be studied
and understood before investiture with the fourth degree. For,
without it, the system of that Rite is incomplete, and even like a
fabric without foundation." This rare reprint includes the,
openings, closings and rituals of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow
Craft and Master Mason degrees according to the Pike workings of
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. More importantly it
contains the complete SECRET WORK. These rituals are MUCH MORE
ESOTERIC and differ significantly from the Webb-form (York Rite)
Blue Lodge rituals commonly used in the United States, and the book
has several interesting illustrations (including Hiram's jewel-a
talisman ). Also included is the "Table Lodge" ceremony. Highly
recommended. Very scarce
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Pike knew that our language, philosophy, religions, are traceable
to the Aryans, Indo and Irano, and he has presented to our view,
through the Lectures, the emigration and last division of the race,
their country, character and manners, their language, their
deities, and legends. "Of the work, Pike himself said: 'Oldest
literary monuments and records of human thought in the world and as
the source and origin of the great philosophical doctrines of the
world, but also, and far more, because they make known to us a
sublime theosophy and purely philosophic faith believed in and
understood by men of our own blood and lineage at a very remote
period when they dwelt near the cradle of the race.
Albert Pike found Freemasonry in a log cabin and left in a Temple.
He was the master genius of Masonry in America, both as scholar and
artist. No other mind of equal power ever toiled so long in the
service of the Craft in the New World. To understand Freemasonry,
read Pike.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
DEITIES AND WORSHIP Contained in the ALBERT PIKE 1872 19 in THE
STA3STDABJ3 PRINTINO CO. Louisville CopyrigU, 1930, by The Supreme
Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, for
the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America PREFACE.
It. is quite uncertain, now that I have this book finished, whether
I shall ever care to publish it. It was not commenced for that
purpose and it may always remain a monotype, in manuscript. For it
has been written as a study, and not as a teaching for myself and
not for others. It is not at all the fruit of a meditated purpose,
and was not commenced as a diagnosis of the Deities of the Veda, an
attempt to discover the distinctive personality and individuality
of each, which it afterwards became, and the fruits of itself to
myself have been sufficient to reward me abundantly for the labour
it has cost. Nothing has ever so much interested me, as this
endeavour to penetrate into the adyta of the ancient Aryan thought,
to discover what things, principles or phenomena our remote
ancestors worshipped as Gods, what Indra, Varuna, Mitra, Aryaman,
the Agvins, Vayu, Vishnu, SavitJfi and the others really were, in
the conception of the composers of the Vedic hymns. It has had a
singular charm for me, this inquiry into the true mean ing of the
epithets and phrases, often, in appearance, indiscriminately
applied to different Deities, often seemingly inappropriate, and
the expres sions of a wild and riotous imagination into the true
meaning of names and epithets and phrases that became, literally
accepted and misunderstood, the sources, seeds or germs of the
legendary myths and many of the Deities of the Grecian mythology
and theBrahmanic fables and pantheon. And I have felt the most
intense satisfaction in deciphering, as it seemed to me I did,
these hieroglyphs of ancient Aryan thought in bringing myself into
relation en rapport with these old Poets and Philosophers, under
standing them in part, and thinking with them in deciphering their
hiero glyphics, infinitely better worth the labour than all that
are engraved on the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, and in solving
one by one the enigmas contained in their figurative and seemingly
extravagant language, whose meaning was only to be discovered by
beginning with their simplest notions and conceptions, and making
the curious processes of their thought my own trying as it were, to
be them, intellectually, and to think their thoughts. Thus I
satisfied myself that every one of their Deities had for them a
perfectly distinct and dear personality and individuality that
their ideas were not in the least vague, incoherent or confused
that their imagination was perfectly - ell-regulated, and that
every epithet and phrase was logically appropriate and correct. So
also, upon a partial examination, I found it to be in the ancient
Zarathustrian G tMs, which are, I do not doubt, even older than the
Vedic hymns. I found in both, the most profound philosophic or
metaphysical ideas, which those of every philosophy and religion
have merely developed and that, so far from being Barbarians or
Savages, the old Aryan herdsmen and husbandmen, in the Indus
country under the Himalayan Mountains, on the rivers of Bactria,
and, long before, on the Scythic Steppes where they originated,
were men of singularly clear and acute intellects, profound thought
and an infinite reverence of thebeings whom they worshipped. The
inquiry has opened to me an entirely new chapter of the history of
human thought, and given me an infinitely higher conception of the
Aryan intellect...
In 1879 Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme
Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction,
USA, prepared and authorized for sale a collection of books 'for
general distribution." Among these was also a collection of
rituals, virtually unknown today. These included: 1) Degree of
Master Mark Mason, being the work of the Grand Council of Princes
of Jerusalem of South Carolina, and the oldest work extent
anywhere; 2) The Wigan Ritual, of the Early Grand Encampment. 3)
Grade, Mark Mason, Passed Master, and Royal Arch, Rite Ancient
Maconnerie D'York. [Were originally translated from English into
French, and used in the French West Indies in 1795.]; 4) Knights
Templar, former English Ritual. 5) Grand Maitre Ecossais or
Scottish Elder Master and Knight of St. Andrew, being the Fourth
Degree of Ramsey. 6) Old Ceremony of Royal Arch Exaltation. This
new book includes ALL of the above rituals in one volume. These
rituals have become some of the scarcest items ever printed by the
Supreme Council. Original copies now sell for between US $60 and US
$100 each. All of these rituals are extremely important, each for
unique reasons. The Master Mark Mason and Wigan Rituals are, for
example, early, little-known versions of these degrees; the former
lacking much of the Christian symbolism present today, and the
latter (supplied by John Yarker), differing significantly from the
current ritual. The MaConnerie D'Yorke rituals were obtained in New
Orleans, and contain a wealth of historical information relative to
their use, including references to Joseph Cerneau, who had long
troubled the Southern Jurisdiction by his irregular branch the
Scottish Rite. The 'former"English Knights Templar ritual appears
to be the authorized revision of 1851, upon which the current
ritual is based. The Grand Maitre Ecossais degree is an Hermetic
degree which contends that the essential 'secret" of Freemasonry is
the Alchemical transmutation of the initiate
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