Morals and Dogma - Condensed Essential Edition - Edited - by The Concise Masonic Library (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Masonic Light Publishing, 2026

1913881490 / 9781913881498

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Paperback. What does Freemasonry seek to teach through its degrees, symbols, and allegories?Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma is one of the monumental works of Masonic literature: an ambitious exploration of morality, philosophy, symbolism, religion, ancient wisdom, and the teachings of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.Originally prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree, Pike organised the work around the degrees of the Scottish Rite, using each as a point of departure for a much wider examination of human character, duty, liberty, justice, faith, reason, spiritual development, and the search for truth.Pike's concern is not merely with explaining ceremonies. The symbols of Masonry become instruments through which he examines some of humanity's oldest questions: What is our duty to one another? How should power be governed by wisdom? What is the relationship between liberty and law? How can faith and reason coexist? What does the pursuit of Light demand of the individual?Even in his treatment of the earliest degree, Pike transforms familiar working tools into philosophical symbols. Force without discipline becomes destructive; guided by intellect, law, justice, and moral purpose, it becomes capable of constructive action. He connects the Rule and Gavel with ideas of order, liberty, equality, fraternity, and the disciplined exercise of human power.As the work progresses, Pike ranges across an extraordinary intellectual landscape: Egyptian and Greek mysteries, Pythagorean philosophy, Judaism, Christianity, Mithraism, Gnosticism, Hermetic thought, the Kabalah, comparative religion, sacred number and geometry, the symbolism of Light, the Temple, the soul, immortality, initiation, and the relationship between the material and spiritual worlds.Yet beneath this immense range of material lies a persistent moral argument. Pike presents the purpose of the Scottish Rite as the mastery of the higher nature over selfishness, passion, ignorance, dishonesty, intolerance, and injustice. Truthfulness, charity, impartial justice, tolerance, duty, honor, generosity, forgiveness, intellectual development, and civil and religious liberty recur throughout his interpretation of the degrees.Morals and Dogma is therefore not a creed to be accepted unquestioningly. Pike explicitly describes its speculative teachings as material to be weighed and judged by the individual reader. Its immense scope reflects his attempt to assemble a philosophical compendium through which Masonry could engage with the moral and spiritual inheritance of many civilisations.This Condensed Essential Edition, presented as part of The Concise Masonic Library, preserves the principal arguments, symbols, moral teachings, and philosophical themes of Pike's original while providing a focused route through one of the largest and most demanding classics of Masonic literature. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
Morals and Dogma - Condensed Essential Edition - Edited - by The Concise Masonic Library (Paperback)
Autor
Albert Pike
Verlag
Masonic Light Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
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new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1913881490
ISBN-13
9781913881498

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