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To: AmishDude


In Morals and Dogma, Pike wrote:

"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, or would pervert 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..." 1



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!" 2



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. 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. " 3


263 posted on 11/29/2004 2:12:40 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain

You fell for that one? You're not as bright as I thought. That was published years ago to throw guys like you off the scent. Get real. Do you think true Masons would really reveal the truth of the designs we have on the world? I'm giving you hints and glimpses but you can't truly grasp the full concept. You have no idea what you're dealing with.


280 posted on 11/29/2004 2:28:55 PM PST by AmishDude
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