Morals and Dogma Study and Opinion

From Chapter 3, and one of the 24 articles I wrote for “The Working Tools” Masonic Magazine as a monthly contributor. I found this goinf through my archives, and I hope you enjoy!   The Scarcity of Great Men (Continue Chapter 3)          Welcome!                   This month we're continuing with Chapter 3 “The Master” where Pike is explaining the third degree of freemasonry.           In these first paragraphs Pike is explaining on a spiritual realm, many SAY they have answers, but Pike challenges these people and suggests when it comes to spirituality; we really are only guessing so long as we are in our human form.     Let’s begin!             *      *      *      *      *      * If, in teaching the great doctrine of the d...

       Greetings and Welcome Back as we continue our study of Albert Pike’s “Morals and Dogma”.       This time we continue with chapter 30 where Pike continues his thoughts on the persecution of religious ideals and other pursuits of truth that were contrary to societal “norms” in their own time. We know that the Knight Templars paid with their lives for their own pursuits of truth that was deemed contrary to the Catholic Church, we also have learned that many of the Templar rituals are used in Masonic Lodges even today.     We know it is the duty of a freemason to uphold the rights of all people to pursue whatever truth that the individual aspires to, whether that truth be secular or religious.     And now, LET’S READ PIKE!          An hundred years ago it had become known that the ‏ו ?Q?D?Sה‎ were the Templars under a veil, and therefore the Deg...

           

       Greetings and welcome back to our study and opinion of Albert Pike’s “Morals and Dogma”. This time we will begin Chapter 30.     Before we do begin the study and opinion proper, I would like to apologize for the absence of this study in the last few weeks. I have been recovering from a flu virus that has been going around, as well as a heavy dose of writer’s block. Just the very THOUGHT of writing, or TRYING to write in these past few weeks was a mental hell, so I had to back away for awhile. This began around the end of the last chapter, and admittedly I was “dialing it in” just to post something here.    My plan is to revisit this study at the end of Chapter 32 (after a hiatus) and cover whatever I feel we should focus again upon. Also, there are many chapters missing as I let lapse my Word Press account and cannot recover a good portion of this work. I refuse to continue to pay for items out of m...