Frater Cliff Porter
Premium Member
Pike was an extraordinary man to which Freemasonry, not just SR Freemasonry owes a great debt. Albert Pike's SR damn near rescued Masonry from the massive decimation of the anti-Masonic period and made it, to some degree, to be "cool" to be a Mason again. There are more than 700 unpublished works of Pike's at the House of the Temple, many of which are the only English versions of ancient archaic text in the world to this date.
Morals and Dogma has an annotated version and I recommend it. More than that, Esoterika is a phenomenal read and I recommend it to every Mason.
Pike had the courage that most of us lack these days, he speculated out loud. We don't do that anymore because people pile on and beat down ideas as they form, so we hide them, covet them and dispose of them if we can't find a footnote that proves our point.
Morals and Dogma has an annotated version and I recommend it. More than that, Esoterika is a phenomenal read and I recommend it to every Mason.
Pike had the courage that most of us lack these days, he speculated out loud. We don't do that anymore because people pile on and beat down ideas as they form, so we hide them, covet them and dispose of them if we can't find a footnote that proves our point.