Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: First Three Degrees

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They have the brute force of the HAMMER, but their blows help on the great cause, when struck within the lines traced by the RULE held by wisdom and discretion. The former, therefore, is an emblem of what concerns the earth and the body; the latter of what concerns the heavens and the soul.

If you would understand the true secrets of Alchemy, you must study the works of the Masters with patience and assiduity. For simpleness and accessibility it is almost as hard as "Finnegan's wake" if you are a Mason you should definitely own a copy. The symbolic meaning of these columns we shall leave for the present unexplained, only adding that Entered Apprentices keep their working-tools in the column JACHIN; and giving you the etymology and literal meaning of the two names. The Bible is an indispensable part of the furniture of a Christian Lodge, only because it is the sacred book of the Christian religion.A free people, forgetting that it has a soul to be cared for, devotes all its energies to its material advancement. The book delves into the allegorical and symbolic nature of Masonic rituals, tracing their origins to ancient wisdom traditions and drawing parallels with classical philosophy, Kaballah, and various mystical traditions. There must be the jus et norma, the law and Rule, or Gauge, of constitution and law, within which the public force must act.

Pike employs this mythic content to describe the fundamental ethical challenges of human living and to point out what he considered to be the path toward a moral high ground. The laws of God are not obligatory on us because they are the enactments of His POWER, or the expression of His WILL; but because they express His infinite WISDOM. Profusely illustrated with many images from the original sources Pike had before him when he prepared the original edition. With the release of the authorized edition of 2011, Morals and Dogma is once more being given to new Scottish Rite Masons in the Southern Jurisdiction. Then we have a race, petrified in dogma, which presupposes the absence of a soul and the presence only of memory and instinct, or demoralized by lucre.It is Polyphemus blinded, striking at random, and falling headlong among the sharp rocks by the impetus of his own blows. The text of Pike’s Morals and Dogma is arranged in thirty-two chapters of markedly unequal length, each of which is named for a stage of training in Scottish Rite Freemasonry, termed a degree. YO-D is, in the Kabalah, the symbol of Unity, of the Supreme Deity, the first letter of the Holy Name; and also a symbol of the Great Kabalistic Triads.