Morals and Dogma Study and Opinion

Greetings and welcome back as we continue on with Chapter 26 of Morals and Dogma where we will read about the Gnostic teachings of the Demiurge, or the gnostic imperfect god and compare the Demiurge to the higher god, or perfect god.     As always, we must remember that as Masons we are seekers of more light, and we should aspire to seek that light, as Manly P. Hall wrote in “The Lost Keys of Freemasonry”, “even if it means we enter into the camp of the enemy to find truth…"     On a personal note, I have found my understanding of masonic philosophy much enhanced as I became more familiar with gnostic philosophy. As we read on, we might note that Albert Pike was a great study in gnosticism as well, as the parargraphs we are about to read are very well written and exceptionally informative.     Now, LET’S READ PIKE!      In one respect  all  the Gnostics agreed: they all held; that there was a world purely emanating out of the vital development of God, a creation evolved d

We will be continuing chapter 26 on 30 October!    Thanks for watching the You Tube video posted today.    Title is not what you think.     Thanks for your patience and support!

 

     Greetings and welcome back as we continue with chapter 26 of Albert Pike’s “Morals and Dogma”.         As we continue, we are being reminded of the reasons for what religions call “mysteries” and why some Masonic ritual is kept as “secret”.         See also Albert Mackey’s “The Meaning of Masonry” for more insight into these ideas.         Now, LET’S READ PIKE!           Tertullian, who died about A. D. 216, says in his  Apology : "None are admitted to the religious Mysteries without an oath of secrecy. We appeal to your Thracian and Eleusinian Mysteries; and we are especially bound to this caution, because if we prove faithless, we should not only provoke Heaven, but draw upon our heads the utmost rigor of human displeasure. And should strangers betray us? They know nothing but by report and hearsay. Far hence, ye Profane! is the prohibition from all holy Mysteries." Clemens, Bishop of Alexandria, born about A. D. 191, says, in his  Stromata , that he cannot