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

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If we delineate a cube on a plane surface thus: we have visible three faces, and nine external lines, drawn between seven points. There are noble and mysterious triumphs, which no eye sees, which no renown rewards, which no flourish of trumpets salutes. This chapter introduces a score of major modern Christian thinkers whose views on law, politics, and human nature deserve closer study by jurists and theologians alike. It is a common Egyptian sign for the Sun and Osiris, and is still used as the astronomical sign of the great luminary.

We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil.These columns were imitations, by Khu-ru-m, the Tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the Winds and Fire, at the entrance to the famous Temple of Malkarth, in the city of Tyre.

The obligation of the candidate is always to be taken on the sacred book or books of his religion, that he may deem it more solemn and binding; and therefore it was that you were asked of what religion you were. Everyone is entirely free to reject and dissent from whatsoever herein may seem to him to be untrue or unsound. Albert Pike recoge en Moral y Dogma las enseñanzas de los distintos grados del Rito Escocés Antiguo y Aceptado en un intento de retornar la Iniciación hacia sus contenidos originales así como de defender el compromiso individual con los valores masónicos.Yet the effects produced, when our hand, moved by our will, launches a pebble into the ocean, never cease; and every uttered word is registered for eternity upon the invisible air. 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. If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. Quizá Jacques de Molay y sus comilitones fueron mártires, pero sus vengadores deshonraron su memoria.