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Justice is the Law of the Moral Universe

Greetings and welcome back to the return of our study of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma where we will continue on with page 829 of Chapter 32. Some house keeping is in order before I begin today as I have been on an extended hiatus from this study dealing with a case of writers block, bouts of depression, helping my wife through some serious health issues and also trying to come to terms with the despotism and anarchy that Pike himself wrote about extensively throughout Morals and Dogma, that has now invaded the hallowed halls of Washington, D.C. and will seemingly be entrenched there for the foreseeable future. Columbia herself, whose likeness stands proudly in statue form high on top of the U.S. Capitol Building, is assuredly cringing on a daily basis as are most Americans while we wonder, sometimes aloud, “what is next?”. In short, there has been a lot invading my mind which has kept me from completing this study ...

Natural Law, the Law of Attraction and Freemasonry

Greetings and welcome back to our study of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma as we continue chapter 31. This time, we will join Pike as he explains natural law and the laws of attraction and how it pertains to freemasonry. Thank you for joining in, now LET’S READ PIKE! Everywhere in the world there is a natural law, that is, a constant mode of action, which seems to belong to the nature of things, to the constitution of the Universe. This fact is universal. In different departments we call this mode of action by different names, as the law of Matter, the law of Mind, the law of Morals, and the like. We mean by this, a certain mode of action which belongs to the material, mental, or moral forces, the mode in p. 828 which commonly they are found to act, and in which it is their ideal to act always. The ideal laws of matter we know only from the fact that they are always obeyed. To us the actual obedience is the only...

Fair Judgement and the Tectactrys

Greetings Everyone and WELCOME BACK to our study of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma after a very long hiatus. I offer my apologies for the lay off, I found myself in a long malaise full of writers’ block and lack of inspiration. This happens to writers from time to time. Quincy Jones calls the atmosphere when artists are inspired the time when “God is in the room”. I call the lack of inspiration the Ichabod moments or “the spirit hath departed”. After some self reflection and finding ways to become inspired again, I am back and ready to inspire YOU to keep reading Morals and Dogma. There are so many wonderful lessons in this book that after reading Morals and Dogma, it would be difficult to leave the book without it chnging your life. As we continue this chapter, Pike introduces to us the use of the tecta...

My Lodge Has Beautiful Ornaments, But What Do They Mean?

My Lodge Has Beautiful Ornaments! But What Do They Mean? Posted on February 28, 2013 by jtasher Greetings everyone and welcome as we study now pages 14-18 of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma. Here Pike is describing more of the interior of the lodge room and explaining the meanings of what is symbolized by what is called the ORNAMENTS of the lodge room. We will proceed a little differently tonight. I will post a paragraph or two at a time as we begin rather than posting all of the pages first then reposting and opining again. Let me know if you like this structure better. Here we go! The ORNAMENTS of a Lodge are said to be “the Mosaic Pavement, the Indented Tessel, and the Blazing Star.” The Mosaic Pavement, chequered in squares or lozenges, is said to represent the ground-floor of King Solomon’s Temple; and the Indented Tessel “that beautiful tesselated border which surrounded it....

From the Archives

Greetings! All of the work i thought i lost, I rediscovered from my wordpress site. This is from chapter one of Morals and Dogma when I first began this journey way back in February of 2013. I was trying to “find my voice” as a writer at that point, and I was not certain how the masonic circles were going to receive my efforts on offering this study. I encountered a lot of support from YOU, the readers, and a lot of animosity from those I attended lodge with at that time. But I pressed on, anyway, because I truly believed then and continue to believe now that Pike’s words can and do change peoples minds for the better which also changes societyfor the better. This is Christmas weekend, 2017. Please enjoy this entry. Have a safe Christmas! You can find the earlier chapters of our study at masonicme.wordpress.com Lets...

Be Fair, Be Firm, Seek Justice (Begin Chapter 31 of Morals and Dogma)

Greetings Everyone and Welcome to the 31st Chapter of Morals and Dogma. We are almost finished studying and opining this great work of Albert Pike. It has taken about 2 years to get this far in our study. Unfortunately, I lost much of the study (formerly at masonic me.com) due to using another blog site that demanded payments that I coud not afford due to paying for cancer treatments instead. Many of those studies are written in The Working Tools Magazine, which I have copies of and will scan and transfer those lessons onto this site after we reach the end of Chapter 32. This time, we begin Chapter 31 as I mentioned, where Pike has written some very valuable lessons for all freemasons. All too often, I believe we forget our purposes as freemasons, where we get busy with Lodge business, and not busy enough with the obligation of being an instr...