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Finishing Chapter 29

Greetings and welcome back to our study of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma.      Today we will offer up the remaining pages of the chapter for you to read and decipher as most of what is written in these pages will stand alone on its own merit and any commentary would mostly distract from the text.        Thank you for reading along. Chapter 30 next time we meet!       It has been well said, that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the Past, the Distant, or the Future, predominate over the Present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. The modern rivals of the German Spa, with their flaunting pretences and cheap finery, their follies and frivolities, their chronicles of dances and inelegant feasts, and their bulletins p. 807 of women's names and dresses, are poor substitutes for the Monastery and Church which our ancestors would have built in the deep sequestered valleys, shut up between rugged mountains and forests of sombre pine; a