Morals and Dogma Study and Opinion

Greetings Friends and Freemasons! When I set out to creaate this study and opinion regarding Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma over 10 years ago I was in a fight for my life against bladder cancer, and I did not know if I was going to come away from the battle with my life. I wanted to leave behind something that I hoped then and still hope now that might improve society, help change someones thinking for the better, or at least help to peak interests in the philosophies of freemasonry, which are indeed life changing. I came away from the cancer battle without my bladder, and with serious PTSD issues related to the fight, but I am happy to be alive and to continue to spread the good word of freemasonry that there IS light that defeats the daarkness, there is hope when things seem hopeless and there is life after treading the doorstep of death. Over 27,000 people have read this blog, I am so grateful! I hope it has meant something to you or at least caused you to t...

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 ...

    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...

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....

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...

      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...

          Greetings and welcome back as we continue with chapter 30 of Morals and Dogma as we study the teachings therein.     We are about 2 chapters away from finishing Morals and Dogma. Those of you who might have been joining me from the start know it has been a long road through personal trials and illnesses that we have been this far in the last 3 years, and I am only touching upon my own life.  I am sure many of you have been through much yourselves.    This time, we will study Pike’s words regarding the beginning of the Rose Croix, or Rose Cross.     We will examine the ancient symbolism of the rose and hopefully, we can bring the meanings of this mystery into our own lives.     Now, LET’S READ PIKE!       "The Successors of the Ancient Adepts Rose-Croix, abandoning by degrees the austere and hierarchial Science of their Ancestors in initiation, became a Mystic Sect, un...

       Greetings Everyone!             It is good to be back after healing from some pretty severe tendinitis in both wrists. The tendinitis started in my right wrist and then after over using my left hand to compensate, my left wrist went haywire, too!       I took some treatments from a physical therapist and took it easy on the keyboard for awhile, and now I am feeling much better and ready to resume this work.       This time we will resume with Pike writing about the concept of idol worship, both real and perceived, and the consequences of such.        Now, after this long delay, LET’S READ PIKE!             [It is absurd to suppose that men of intellect adored a monstrous idol called Baphomet, or recognized Mahomet as an inspired prophet. Their symbolism, invented ages before, to conceal what it was dangerous to avow, was of course mi...

THE QABBALAH, THE SECRET DOCTRINE OF ISRAEL ALBERT PIKE, quoting from Transcendental Magic, thus sums up the importance of Qabbalism as a key to Masonic esotericism: "One is filled with admiration, on penetrating into the Sanctuary of the Kabalah, at seeing a doctrine so logical, so simple, and at the same time so absolute. The necessary union of ideas and signs, the consecration of the most fundamental realities by the primitive characters; the Trinity of Words, Letters, and Numbers; a philosophy simple as the alphabet, profound and infinite as the Word; theorems more complete and luminous than those of Pythagoras; a theology summed up by counting on one's fingers; an Infinite which can be held in the hollow of an infant's hand; ten ciphers and twenty-two letters, a triangle, a square, and a circle,--these are all the elements of the Kabalah. These are the elementary principles of the written Word, reflection of that spoken Word that created the world!" (Morals and D...

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...