Morals and Dogma Study and Opinion

     Greetings and welcome back as we continue with chapter 26 of Albert Pike’s “Morals and Dogma”.         As we continue, we are being reminded of the reasons for what religions call “mysteries” and why some Masonic ritual is kept as “secret”.         See also Albert Mackey’s “The Meaning of Masonry” for more insight into these ideas.         Now, LET’S READ PIKE!           Tertullian, who died about A. D. 216, says in his  Apology : "None are admitted to the religious Mysteries without an oath of secrecy. We appeal to your Thracian and Eleusinian Mysteries; and we are especially bound to this caution, because if we prove faithless, we should not only provoke Heaven, but draw upon our heads the utmost rigor of human displeasure. And should strangers betray us? They know nothing but by report and hearsay. F...