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

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It was probably pronounced Ya-kayan, and meant, as a verbal noun, He that strengthens; and thence, firm, stable, upright. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We never know at what moment success awaits our efforts—generally when most unexpected—nor with what effect our efforts are or are not to be attended.

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. The force of the people is exhausted in indefinitely prolonging things long since dead; in governing mankind by embalming old dead tyrannies of Faith; restoring dilapidated dogmas; regilding faded, worm-eaten shrines; whitening and rouging ancient and barren superstitions; saving society by multiplying parasites; perpetuating superannuated institutions; enforcing the worship of symbols as the actual means of salvation; and tying the dead corpse of the Past, mouth to mouth, with the living Present.There were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; on all the monuments of Mithras are seven altars or pyres, consecrated to the seven planets, as were the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the Temple. Rather, as one divinely preoccupied and immersed in himself into whose ear the bell has just boomed with all its strength the twelve beats of noon suddenly starts up and asks himself: "what really was that which just struck? The former word also means he will establish, or plant in an erect position—from the verb [Hebrew] Ku-n, he stood erect. They have the brute force of the HAMMER, but their blows help on the great cause, when struck within the lines traced by the RULE held by wisdom and discretion. Given Pike’s presence in Arkansas in the mid-1860s, it is possible that portions of Morals and Dogma were penned either at his residence and library in Little Rock (Pulaski County), or at a primitive Ouachita Mountain cabin, where Pike spent the final two years of the Civil War.

YO-D is, in the Kabalah, the symbol of Unity, of the Supreme Deity, the first letter of the Holy Name; and also a symbol of the Great Kabalistic Triads. Because, the York Rite says, it is necessary that there should be Wisdom to conceive, Strength to support, and Beauty to adorn, all great and important undertakings. Hace doscientos años se supo que los Caballeros Kadosh eran los Templarios bajo otra denominación, de forma que el Grado fue proscrito y quedó como una ceremonia vestigial.To hold the full cup of thought to the thirsty lips of men; to give to all the true ideas of Deity; to harmonize conscience and science, are the province of Philosophy. The perfect Ashlar is said to be a stone made ready by the hands of the workmen, to be adjusted by the working-tools of the Fellow-Craft. It is said by some, with a nearer approach to interpretation, that the point within the circle represents God in the centre of the Universe. That is, the shaft of each was a little over thirty feet eight inches in height, the capital of each a little over eight feet six inches in height, and the diameter of the shaft six feet ten inches. An emphasis on religious and cultural tolerance is shown throughout the work, emphasizing that the root of all religions is the same (according with the Prisca Theologia doctrine).

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. Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil and bruise itself. and, afterward as aforesaid, count the twelve trembling bell-strokes of our experience, our life, our being—and alas! It serves the useful purpose of putting Masonic morality and ethics within the context of the general society, and bids man to think large--to cast aside the petty concerns of everyday life and to improve ourselves. Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry is clearly plagiarized from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by the French occultist Éliphas Lévi".Huge bankruptcies, that startle a country like the earth-quakes, and are more fatal, fraudulent assignments, engulfment of the savings of the poor, expansions and collapses of the currency, the crash of banks, the depreciation of Government securities, prey on the savings of self-denial, and trouble with their depredations the first nourishment of infancy and the last sands of life, and fill with inmates the churchyards and lunatic asylums. Know ye not, says the Apostle Paul, that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? Each party believes or pretends that it has the only true text, and each faction believes or pretends that it alone possesses the light. 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. The tyrant's plea, necessity, is always available; and the tyrant once in power, the necessity of providing for his safety makes him savage.