Albert Pike

In 1855 the Scottish Rite's "Mother Supreme Council of the World" at Charleston, S.C., appointed a committee of five persons to review and standardize its initiation ceremonies and rituals. Only one person completed the task-46-year-old Albert Pike who would ultimately become the most influential Scottish Rite Mason in history. After two years he printed 100 copies of an untitled text which Albert G. Mackey called the Magnum Opus (great work). Although never officially adopted, Pike's revision was a monumental step forward, as it served as the basis for ritual revisions used worldwide. This valuable work allows us to trace the development of both Scottish Rite ritual and philosophy. The lectures which accompany the rituals were the foundation for his most famous work, Morals and Dogma. In his introduction de Hoyos, the Scottish Rite's "Grand Historian," provides an overview of the rituals used from the Scottish Rite's beginning in 1801 up to Pike's time.Arturo de Hoyos is Grand Archivist and Grand Historian of the Supreme Council, 33 , S.J., and an executive officer at the Scottish Rite's headquarters, the "House of the Temple," in Washington, D.C. The author, editor, and translator of more than 25 books and many articles, he's considered America's foremost scholar on the history, rituals, and symbolism of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, and most other Masonic orders, rites, and systems. He has travelled and lectured extensively on Freemasonry, and been featured on numerous television and radio programs, including NBC Dateline's "Secrets of the Lost Symbol," CNN's "The Situation Room," ABC Nightly News, Washington D.C.'s FOX 5 News, WAMU Radio's "Metro Connection," The History Channel, The Voice of America, and more.

Una de las grandes obras clave de masoner a de todos los tiemposJurista, poeta, explorador de frontera, general confederado y comisario para las Naciones Indias, Albert Pike es una de las figuras m s coloridas de la historia norteamericana y una pieza fundamental de la masoner a. Elegido Soberano Gran Comendador del R.E.A.A. en la Jurisdicci n Sur, ocup dicho cargo durante 32 a os, desarrollando sus rituales y publicando diversos libros, entre los que destaca Moral y Dogma del Rito Escoc s Antiguo y Aceptado, obra que complementa el sistema de moral desarrollado en el ritual escocista y que resulta de referencia dentro de la masoner a. Albert Pike es el nico general confederado al que los vencedores honraron con una estatua p blica en Washington (Judiciary Square).

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Vnimaniju chitatelej predlagaetsja ocherednaja kniga iz serii "Masonstvo. Martinizm. Germetizm", vypuskaemoj Natsionalnym Derzhavnym Svjatilischem Ustava Memfisa-Mitsraima v Rossii s tselju prosveschenija chitatelej v oblasti istorii i sovremennosti dukhovnykh dvizhenij, ikh filosofii i simvolizma.Kniga Alberta Pajka "Pritvor i Sredinnaja palata. Kniga lozhi", izdannaja v Charlstone, SSHA, v 1872 g., javljaetsja masonskim raritetom, unikalnym ritualnym svodom, kotoryj redko ispolzovalsja v prakticheskoj masonskoj rabote, no obladaet neosporimoj i znachitelnoj teoreticheskoj tsennostju. Sobrannye A. Pajkom ritualy stepenej simvolicheskoj lozhi (1-3o) Drevnego i Prinjatogo Shotlandskogo Ustava byli svedeny im v logicheskuju i autentichnuju sistemu. Teksty etikh ritualov vydavalis posvjaschennym dlja bolee polnogo oznakomlenija s istoriej simvolikoj i ezotericheskim ucheniem masonstva. "Kniga Lozhi" vpervye izdana v polnom obeme v perevode na russkij jazyk. Ona opredelenno stanet vazhnym i poleznym istochnikom dlja ljubogo issledovatelja masonskogo simvolizma i ritualnoj praktiki.Izdanie prednaznacheno kak dlja spetsialistov, izuchajuschikh istoriju i simvolicheskuju filosofiju masonstva, tak i dlja shirokogo kruga chitatelej, interesujuschikhsja etimi voprosami.Perevodchik: Kuzmishin Evgenij Leonidovich

Albert Pike was born at Boston Massachusetts in 1809, the eldest of six children. A precocious pupil, at the age of 15 he passed the Harvard University entrance exam but could not attend because of lack of funds. Instead, he joined a number of hunting/trading expeditions, travelling west until finally settling around Fort Smith, Arkansas.In 1850, at age 41, Pike was initiated into the Craft and just 8 years later, he was elevated to the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction. His formidable intellect devoured all things metaphysical and esoteric, knowledge that he incorporated into a detailed exposition of the Masonic Brotherhood, its myths and symbols, in Morals and Dogma. The present volume covers the first five degrees of the Craft: Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master, Secret Master and Perfect Master. It will prove invaluable to those considering joining the Masonic Fraternity, and to the initiated Mason who has, so far, found the explanations and rituals he has undergone strangely perfunctory, meaningless or simply disappointing. Morals & Dogma seeks to remedy this, and reveals the Craft as a living philosophy of life, steeped in esoteric knowledge that links the seeker with the most profound Truths of mystical thought. Written on many levels, the book will repay much study and re-reading.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Letter of Albert Pike to the Choctaw People is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Kniga "Magnum Opus, ili Velikoe Delanie" javljaetsja pervym krupnym trudom velikogo amerikanskogo masonskogo uchenogo Alberta Pajka (1809-1891). Eto polnyj i strojnyj ritualnyj svod Drevnego i prinjatogo Shotlandskogo ustava, kotoryj srazu posle posvjaschenija v ego stepeni bylo porucheno Pajku sostavit, potomu chto ustav prebyval v upadke, v osnovnom, po prichine ego khaotichnykh i obryvochnykh ritualov, neprigodnykh dlja prakticheskogo ispolnenija. Sostavlennyj Pajkom pervyj polnyj ritualnyj svod DPSHU byl vposledstvii dopolnen im prostrannymi nastavlenijami v oblasti nravstvennoj i religioznoj filosofii, kotorye byli sobrany v fundamentalnyj trud "Moral i Dogma", do sikh por javljajuschijsja vazhnoj i osnovopolagajuschej rabotoj v oblasti ideologii i sotsialnoj filosofii masonstva.Perevodchik: Kuzmishin Evgenij Leonidovich