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

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Orion rises at noon about the 9th of March. His rising was accompanied with great rains and storms, and it became very terrible to mariners. period when, as the most ancient monuments of all the oriental nations attest, the light of arts and letters first shone forth. Abel, Annie (2007). The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War. City: BiblioBazaar. ISBN 978-1-4264-6170-5. without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, The abominable statue is accompanied by a wall of silence. And sometimes silence speaks louder than words.

In the projection of the celestial sphere by the astronomical priests, the zodiac and constellations, arranged in a circle, presented their halves in diametrical opposition; and the hemisphere of Winter was said to be adverse, opposed, contrary, to that of Summer. Over the angels of the latter ruled a king (OSIRIS or ORMUZD), enlightened, intelligent, creative, and beneficent. Over the fallen angels or evil genii of the former, the demons or Devs of the subterranean empire of darkness and sorrow, and its stars, ruled also a chief. In Egypt the Scorpion first ruled, the sign next the Balance, and long the chief of the Winter signs; and then the Polar Bear or Ass, called Typhon, that is, deluge, on account of the rains which inundated the earth while that constellation domineered. In Persia, at a later day, it was the serpent, which, personified as Ahriman, was the Evil Principle of the religion of Zoroaster.was the most famous conspirator of them all, Adam Weishaupt.) The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the 'agentur' of Additionally, Pike wrote on several legal subjects. He also continued writing poetry, a hobby he had begun in his youth in Massachusetts. His poems were highly regarded in his day, but are now mostly forgotten. Several volumes of his works were privately published posthumously by his daughter. In 1859, he received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard. [11] Poetry [ edit ] At the University of Texas in Austin, they’re removing from public view the statue of the late Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy during the historic War Between the States. In Memphis, they’re actually uprooting and moving the graves of famous Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his entire family. Across the South, statues, busts, pictures and other items that memorialize Confederate war heroes are being defaced, vandalized, and brought down or destroyed. Those under which hot and burning winds came from the desert, venomous like poisonous reptiles, were called Stars of the Scorpion (SCORPIO).

A copy of Morals and Dogma was given to new members of the Southern Jurisdiction from the early 1900s until the mid-1970s. In 1974, it was replaced by Clausen's Commentaries on Morals and Dogma, written by Henry Clausen, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, which in 1988 was itself replaced by A Bridge To Light, by Rex Hutchens, 33°, G∴C∴, which book continues to be given to initiates into the Scottish Rite in the Southern Jurisdiction. 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. After this Second World War, Communism was made strong enough to begin taking over weaker governments. In 1945, at the Potsdamat an unknown distance. The Moon was a mass of softer light; the stars and planets lucent bodies, armed with unknown and supernatural influences. In the wake of the war, Pike moved to New York City, then for a short time to Canada. [6] On June 24, 1865, Pike applied to President Andrew Johnson for a pardon, disowning his earlier interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He said he now planned "to pursue the arts of peace, to practice my profession, to live among my books, and to labour to benefit my fellows and my race by other than political courses". President Johnson pardoned him on April 23, 1866. [28] Later life and death [ edit ]

Texe Marrs – Founder of the Ku Klux Klan Statue Stands in the Middle of Washington, D.C., in Judiciary Square During Pike's lifetime the Northern Jurisdiction based many of their degrees upon Pike's rituals, although they subsequently revised them many times, and never presented initiates with Morals and Dogma, nor any of the subsequent commentaries.Cousin, John (2003). Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. City: Kessinger Publishing, LLC. ISBN 0-7661-4348-1. Thus commencing, and as astronomy came to be more studied, imaginary figures were traced all over the Heavens, to which the different Stars were assigned. Chief among them were those that lay along the path which the Sun travelled as he climbed toward the North and descended to the South: lying within certain limits and extending to an equal distance on each side of the line of equal nights and days. This belt, curving like a Serpent, was termed the Zodiac, and divided into twelve Signs. Thus the Mysteries taught the great doctrine of the divine nature and longings after immortality of the soul, of the nobility of its origin, the grandeur of its destiny, its superiority over the animals who have no aspirations heavenward. If they struggled in vain to express its nature, by comparing it to Fire and Light,--if they erred as to its original place of abode, and the mode of its

All that can be said concerning the Gods," says Strabo, "must be by the exposition of old opinions and fables; it being the custom of the ancients to wrap up in enigma and allegory their thoughts and discourses concerning Nature; which are therefore not easily explained." Contents [ edit ] The Double Headed Eagle emblem of the Scottish Rite, from the cover of Morals and Dogma. Pike, you see, was also a chief founder of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the pointy-hat, sheet-wearing militia of the supremacist whites during the reconstruction period. Those among which he was found in February, when the Ewes brought forth their young, were called Stars of the Lamb (Arms).From TAURUS, he passed through Gemini and Cancer, and reached LEO when he arrived at the terminus of his journey Northward. Thence, through Leo, Virgo, and Libra, he entered SCORPIO at the Autumnal Equinox, and journeyed Southward through Scorpia, Sagittarius, and Capricornus to AQUARIUS, the terminus of his journey South.