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”.       We are continuing on with chapter 26 where this time Pike is reminding us of the shortcomings of language when it come to explaining what is spiritual, and along with the ineptitude of language is the incapacity of the human psyche to depose the idea of the abstract ideas of what is spiritual without comparisons to what is physical.       We are not really shifting from the study of gnostic ideologies as we studied earlier in this chapter, rather the frailty of language is ofyen discussed in gnostic circles as a means of the demiurge to continue to keep mankind in the darkness of ignorance.     But, on the other side of the coin, we do know that words are powerful, building up and tearning down confidence or starting and stopping human destruction caused by war.      We know as we study mysticism that there a...