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MORALS and DOGMA by ALBERT PIKE

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry , prepared for the

Supreme Council of the Thirty Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States:

Charleston, 1871.

LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange

and mysterious name to give to the

Spirit of Darknesss! Lucifer, the Son

of the Morning! Is it he who

bears the Light, and with its

splendors intolerable blinds feeble,

sensual or selfish Souls ? Doubt it

not!

MORALS and DOGMA by ALBERT PIKE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

TITLES OF DEGREES

1º - Apprentice

2º - Fellow-craft

3º - Master

4º - Secret Master

5º - Perfect Master

6º - Intimate Secretary

7º - Provost and Judge

8º - Intendant of the Building

9º - Elu of the Nine

10º - Elu of the Fifteen

11º - Elu of the Twelve

12º - Master Architect

13º - Royal Arch of Solomon

14º - Perfect Elu

15º - Knight of the East

16º - Prince of Jerusalem

17º - Knight of the East and West

18º - Knight Rose Croix

19º - Pontiff

20º - Master of the Symbolic Lodge

21º - Noachite or Prussian Knight

22º - Knight of the Royal Axe or Prince of Libanus

23º - Chief of the Tabernacle

24º - Prince of the Tabernacle

25º - Knight of the Brazen Serpent

26º - Prince of Mercy

27º - Knight Commander of the Temple

28º - Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept ( Part 1 )

28º - Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept ( Part 2 )

28º - Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept ( Part 3 )

28º - Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept ( Part 4 )

30º - Knight Kadosh

31º - Inspector Inquistor

32º - Master of the Royal Secret

MORALS and DOGMA by ALBERT PIKE

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry , prepared for the

Supreme Council of the Thirty Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States:

Charleston, 1871.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Albert Pike, born December 29, 1809, was the oldest of six children

born to Benjamin and Sarah Andrews Pike. Pike was raised in a

Christian home and attended an Episcopal church. Pike passed the

entrance examination at Harvard College when he was 15 years old,

but could not attend because he had no funds. After traveling as far

west as Santa Fe, Pike settled in Arkansas, where he worked as

editor of a newspaper before being admitted to the bar. In Arkansas,

he met Mary Ann Hamilton, and married her on November 28, 1834.

To this union were born 11 children.

He was 41 years old when he applied for admission in the Western

Star Lodge No. 2 in Little Rock, Ark., in 1850. Active in the Grand

Lodge of Arkansas, Pike took the 10 degrees of the York Rite from

1850 to 1853. He received the 29 degrees of the Scottish Rite in

March 1853 from Albert Gallatin Mackey in Charleston, S.C. The

Scottish Rite had been introduced in the United States in 1783.

Charleston was the location of the first Supreme Council, which

governed the Scottish Rite in the United States, until a Northern Supreme Council was

established in New York City in 1813. The boundary between the Southern and Northern

Jurisdictions, still recognized today, was firmly established in 1828. Mackey invited Pike to join

the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction in 1858 in Charleston, and he became the

Grand Commander of the Supreme Council the following year. Pike held that office until his

death, while supporting himself in various occupations such as editor of the Memphis Daily

Appeal from February 1867 to September 1868, as well as his law practice. Pike later opened

a law office in Washington, D.C., and argued a number of cases before the U.S. Supreme

Court. However, Pike was impoverished by the Civil War and remained so much of his life,

often borrowing money for basic living expenses from the Supreme Council before the council

voted him an annuity in 1879 of $1,200 a year for the remainder of his life. He died on April 2,

1892, in Washington, D.C.

Realizing that a revision of the ritual was necessary if Scottish Rite Freemasonry were to

survive, Mackey encouraged Pike to revise the ritual to produce a standard ritual for use in all

states in the Southern Jurisdiction. Revision began in 1855, and after some changes, the

Supreme Council endorsed Pike's revision in 1861. Minor changes were made in two degrees

in 1873 after the York Rite bodies in Missouri objected that the 29th and 30th degrees revealed

secrets of the York Rite.

Pike is best known for his major work, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted

Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, published in 1871. Morals and Dogma should not be confused

with Pike's revision of the Scottish Rite ritual. They are separate works. Walter Lee Brown

writes that Pike "intended it [ Morals and Dogma ] to be a supplement to that great 'connected

system of moral, religious and philosophical instruction' that he had developed in his revision

of the Scottish ritual."

Morals and Dogma was traditionally given to the candidate upon his receipt of the 14th degree

of the Scottish Rite. This practice was stopped in 1974. Morals and Dogma has not been given

to candidates since 1974. A Bridge to Light, by Rex R. Hutchens, is provided to candidates

today. Hutchens laments that Morals and Dogma is read by so few Masons. A Bridge to Light

was written to be "a bridge between the ceremonies of the degrees and their lectures in Morals

and Dogma."

MORALS and DOGMA by ALBERT PIKE

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry , prepared for the

Supreme Council of the Thirty Third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States:

Charleston, 1871.

1º - Apprentice

THE TWELVE-INCH RULE AND THE COMMON GAVEL.

FORCE, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of

gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the

dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction and

ruin. It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone;-not growth and progress. It is

Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by

the impetus of his own blows.

The blind Force of the people is a Force that must be economized, and also managed,

as the blind Force of steam, lifting the ponderous iron arms and turning the large wheels,

is made to bore and rifle the cannon and to weave the most delicate lace. It must be

regulated by Intellect. Intellect is to the people and the people's Force, what the slender

needle of the compass is to the ship--its soul, always counselling the huge mass of wood

and iron, and always pointing to the north. To attack the citadels built up on all sides

against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices, the Force must

have a brain and a law. Then its deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is

real progress. Then there are sublime conquests. Thought is a force, and philosophy

should be an energy, finding its aim and its effects in the amelioration of mankind. The

two great motors are Truth and Love. When all these Forces are combined, and guided

by the Intellect, and regulated by the RULE of Right, and Justice, and of combined and

systematic movement and effort, the great revolution prepared for by the ages will begin

to march. The POWER of the Deity Himself is in equilibrium with His WISDOM. Hence

the only results are HARMONY.

It is because Force is ill regulated, that revolutions prove failures. Therefore it is that so

often insurrections, coming from those high mountains that domineer over the moral

horizon, Justice, Wisdom, Reason, Right, built of the purest snow of the ideal after a long

fall from rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in their transparency, and been

swollen by a hundred affluents, in the majestic path of triumph, suddenly lose themselves

in quagmires, like a California river in the sands.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it should blaze

with noble and enduring lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history, and form

one class of the guiding lights of man. They are the stars and coruscations from that

great sea of electricity, the Force inherent in the people. To strive, to brave all risks, to

perish, to persevere, to be true to one's self, to grapple body to body with destiny, to

surprise defeat by the little terror it inspires, now to confront unrighteous power, now to

defy intoxicated triumph--these are the examples that the nations need and the light that

electrifies them.

There are immense Forces in the great caverns of evil beneath society; in the hideous

degradation, squalor, wretchedness and destitution, vices and crimes that reek and

simmer in the darkness in that populace below the people, of great cities. There

disinterestedness vanishes, every one howls, searches, gropes, and gnaws for himself.

Ideas are ignored, and of progress there is no thought. This populace has two mothers,

both of them stepmothers--Ignorance and Misery. Want is their only guide--for the

appetite alone they crave satisfaction. Yet even these may be employed. The lowly sand

we trample upon, cast into the furnace, melted, purified by fire, may become resplendent

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