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Begin Chapter 29 of Morals and Dogma

Greetings and welcome back as we begin chapter 29 of Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike.     This time we will read about the virtues of knighthood and we will examine the importance in history of the cross of St. Andrew.     There is a bit od personal history regarding St. Andrew for me where the main catholic church in my neighborhood in Detroit where I grew up was St. Andrew’s Catholic Church. Though I was not raised catholic, the majority of my neighborhood was catholic and attended that church every Sunday, and many of my friends attended St. Andrew’s Catholic School.    St. Andrew’s Church in my old neighborhood held all sorts of festivals and events where the entire neighborhood would attend and were welcomed no matter what religious persuasion you were. I enjoyed many Halloween events there as a kid in their gymnasium as well as so many fall and summer festivals throughout the year.     Because of my lack of understa...
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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...
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Let's Learn About Gnosticism and the Demiurge

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 ...
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