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Masons (Most
of our rulers are Masons):
One of the major sourcebooks of Masonic doctrine is Morals and Dogma
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry, written in
1871 by Albert Pike, and is considered to be the "Mason's guide for
daily living… In it Masonry is a search after
Light..."
In Morals and Dogma, Pike wrote: "Every Masonic lodge is a temple of
religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion...Masonry,
like all 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...to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw
them away from it... The truth must be kept
secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their
imperfect reason… every man's conception of God must be proportioned
to his mental cultivation, and intellectual powers, and moral
excellence. God is, as man conceives him, the reflected image of man
himself."
The next statement reduces the Masonic philosophy to a single
premise. Pike writes: "The true name of
Satan, the Kabalists say, is that of Yahveh reversed; for
Satan is not a black god... Lucifer, the
Light Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the
Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who
bears the Light...Doubt it not!"
Albert Pike explained in Morals & 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... 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."
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