Albert Pike was Grand Commander of North American Freemasonry from 1859 until his death in 1891. Morals and Dogma was originally published in 1871 as an explanation of masonry consisting of 32 chapters covering each of the 32 degrees of freemasonry.

Albert Pike explained in Morals and Dogma how the true nature of Freemasonry is kept a secret from Masons of lower degrees: "The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the Princes of Masonry. The whole body of the Royal and Sacerdotal Art was hidden so carefully, centuries since, in the High Degrees, as that it is even yet impossible to solve many of the enigmas which they contain. It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain, and without any true reward violate his obligations as an Adept. Masonry is the veritable Sphinx, buried to the head in the sands heaped round it by the ages. " pg. 819

"Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it. Truth is not for those who are unworthy or unable to receive it..." pg. 104-105

Table of Contents

Preface

 1º  - Apprentice
 2º  - Fellow-craft
 3º  - Master
 4º  - Secret Master
 5º  - Perfect Master
 6º  - Intimate Secretary
 7º  - Provost and Judge
 8º  - Intendant of the Building
 9º  - Elu of the Nine
10º - Elu of the Fifteen
11º - Elu of the Twelve
12º - Master Architect
13º - Royal Arch of Solomon
14º - Perfect Elu
15º - Knight of the East
16º - Prince of Jerusalem
17º - Knight of the East and West
18º - Knight Rose Croix

19º - Pontiff
20º - Master of the Symbolic Lodge
21º - Noachite or Prussian Knightnight
22º - Knight of the Royal Axe or
      & Prince of Libanusbanus
23º - Chief of the Tabernacle
24º - Prince of the Tabernacle
25º - Knight of the Brazen Serpent
26º - Prince of Mercy
27º - Knight Commander of the Temple
28º - Knight of the Sun or Prince Adept
29º - Scottish Knight of St. Andre30º - Knight Kadoshght Kadosh
31º - Inspector Inquisitor
32º - Master of the Royal Secret

Digest (index) of Morals and Dogma

598 pages, 7.5 x 10, Paperback

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