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Fraternal organization within Freemasonry
Major conspiracy theories linking Freemasons to secret rituals and Satanism trace back to 19th-century hoaxes and sustained religious opposition; the Léo Taxil “Palladism” hoax is singled out as a del...
Albert Pike’s single most influential Masonic work is Morals and Dogma (first published 1871), an 861‑page compilation of lectures and esoteric commentary that shaped Scottish Rite thought in the U.S....
Albert Pike (1809–1891) served as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 to 1891 and is widely credited with revising the Scottish Rite degree rituals and prod...
Albert Pike (1809–1891) was a Massachusetts-born teacher, poet, lawyer, newspaperman, and prominent Freemason who settled in the trans‑Mississippi West and Arkansas before the Civil War; he published ...
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Albert Pike was a prolific 19th‑century writer whose output ranged from poetry and legal manuals to extensive ritual and esoteric works for the Scottish Rite; an authoritative, single printed bibliogr...
La masonería tiene una mezcla de materiales rituales públicos —manuscritos y libros editados— y prácticas que las obediencias consideran reservadas; estudios y ediciones modernas han hecho accesibles ...
Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, published in 1871, is a compendium of essays that systematizes the philosophical and ritual meanings of the Scottish Rite degr...
Albert Pike’s careers as a poet, editor, and lawyer were tightly interwoven with his leadership in Freemasonry and his imprint on nineteenth‑century American intellectual life: his literary output and...
Albert Pike was the dominant architect of ritual and doctrine for the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction in the second half of the 19th century: he served as Sovereign Grand Commander from 1859 to 1...
Albert Pike was the dominant architect of the Scottish Rite in nineteenth‑century America: he led the Southern Jurisdiction from 1859 until 1891 and produced the influential ritual and philosophical c...