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

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One of Pike's influences was the French author Éliphas Lévi, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant. The Blazing Star in the centre is said to be an emblem of Divine Providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the East to the place of our Saviour’s nativity. If we delineate a cube on a plane surface thus: we have visible three faces, and nine external lines, drawn between seven points. En los grados correspondientes al Capítulo Rosacruz, Albert Pike finaliza sus enseñanzas relativas al Segundo Templo y se adentra en la génesis de la doctrina rosacruz a través de la Gnosis, la Cábala, el Neoplatonismo, el Zoroastrismo, las doctrinas herméticas egipcias y una interpretación esotérica del Cristianismo. so we sometimes rub our ears afterward and ask, utterly surprised and disconcerted, "what really was that which we have just experienced?

For me, this audio edition of Morals and Dogma has been essential to successfully completing the Master Craftsman educational course of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. To reconcile the moral law, human responsibility, free-will, with the absolute power of God; and the existence of evil with His absolute wisdom, and goodness, and mercy,—these are the great enigmas of the Sphynx.Give a donation in someone’s name to mark a special occasion, honor a friend or colleague or remember a beloved family member. He pours upon the Moon his fecundating rays; both shed their light upon their offspring, the Blazing Star, or HORUS, and the three form the great Equilateral Triangle, in the centre of which is the omnific letter of the Kabalah, by which creation is said to have been effected. That these represented the planets, we are assured by Clemens of Alexandria, in his Stromata, and by Philo Judaeus. As to the ordinary and commonplace explanation, it may be added, that the wisdom of the Architect is displayed in combining, as only a skillful Architect can do, and as God has done everywhere,—for example, in the tree, the human frame, the egg, the cells of the honeycomb—strength, with grace, beauty, symmetry, proportion, lightness, ornamentation. 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.

Might, in an army wielded by tyranny, is the enormous sum total of utter weakness; and so Humanity wages war against Humanity, in despite of Humanity. Know ye not, says the Apostle Paul, that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? The ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The symbol was the same as that of the seven stages of Borsippa, the Pyramid of vitrified brick, near Babylon, built of seven stages, and each of a different color.The military power, not subordinate to the civil power, again the HAMMER or MACE of FORCE, independent of the RULE, is an armed tyranny, born full-grown, as Athene sprung from the brain of Zeus.