Morals and Dogma Study and Opinion

    Greetings and welcome back as we proceed with chapter 26 of Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike.        We have been learning and opining about gnostic philosophies for the past few entries as chapter 26 is one of the longer chapters in Morals and Dogma, so I hope I have made this chapter worth “staying tuned” for.      I have found that the more I study gnosticism, the more I understand freemasonry so I can understand why Pike took time to write about and teach the different sects of gnostic thought. I also have found that the more I understand about gnosticism, the more similarities I recognize in more mainstream religions.    I cannot say who derived what from whom or who was inspired more from whom as I have not studied enough of the history of mainstream christianity and gnosticism but it is apparent some items are clearly the same.     We are going to study the gnostic pilosophies of the Manichea...