[D-fendr]

Here's what wikipedia (sorry) says on the distribution:

A copy of Morals and Dogma was given to every new member of the Southern Jurisdiction until 1974, when it was deemed "too advanced to be helpful to the new Scottish Rite member."[citation needed] It was initially replaced by Clausen's Commentaries on Morals and Dogma, written by Henry C. Clausen, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, and later by A Bridge To Light, by Rex Hutchens, 33°, G.'.C.', which is the book a new initiate into the Scottish Rite in the Southern Jurisdiction receives today. The book was never used in the Northern Jurisdiction.

Fred, have you ever heard of Clausen's Commentaries or "A Bridge to Light"?

[Smelly_Fed]

Fred, have you ever heard of Clausen's Commentaries or "A Bridge to Light"?

Heard of it yes, read it no. Again it's a Scottish Rite thing and I'm not a member of the Scottish Rite - nor do I have any plans to become one. That's not to denigrate Scottish Rite members, it's just not my gig.

But to an earlier point, your post proves what I was saying. Morals and Dogma was certainly not distributed to EVERY freemason as was suggested by narses. Merely Scottish Rite members of the Southern Jurisdiction.

[TheThirdRuffian]

The Scottish Rite is an ancillary group to masons, it is not “freemasonry.” (Although you have to be a mason to be in the Scottish Rite.)

There are two groups that branch off of the Blue Lodge, the York Rite (Christian only) and the Scottish Rite (open to other religions, chiefly Jews).

Never been a fan of Pike myself; he was just one man with one opinion, with which I disagreed.