Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Albert Pike
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Description
Albert Pike published Morals and Dogma in 1871 as lectures on the thirty-two degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Each degree receives a chapter drawing morals from ancient symbols, comparative religion, and philosophy. The volume is massive, dense, and endlessly digressive by design.
Pike ranges from Egyptian and Greek mysteries to Kabbalah and medieval chivalry, reading Masonic ritual as a school of ethics and toleration. Few members have read it whole, yet it remains the most famous and most misunderstood book in American Masonry, quoted and misquoted by admirers and conspiracy writers alike. Patient readers find a nineteenth-century moral philosophy in ritual dress.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Albert Pike |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2.5 MB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |