I've heard that the book doesn't hold a good reputation even among masons, and I'd like to hear from you why. It probably meant Active and Vivifying Energy and Force; and Boas, Stability, Permanence, in the passive sense. Approximately 4,000 notes reveal the original sources used by Pike, clarify passages, suggest further reading, and include cross-references.

When the nation feels its feet sliding backward, as if it walked on the ice, the time has come for a supreme effort. Bubbles that, bursting, impoverish multitudes, will be blown up by cunning knavery, with stupid credulity as its assistants and instrument.Despotisms, seen in the past, become respectable, as the mountain, bristling with volcanic rock, rugged and horrid, seen through the haze of distance is blue and smooth and beautiful.

It was probably pronounced Ya-kayan, and meant, as a verbal noun, He that strengthens; and thence, firm, stable, upright.Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry is clearly plagiarized from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie by the French occultist Éliphas Lévi". Pike employs this mythic content to describe the fundamental ethical challenges of human living and to point out what he considered to be the path toward a moral high ground. Published in 1871, Pike's work is a dense and comprehensive exploration of the rituals, symbolism, and teachings within the Scottish Rite, one of the appendant bodies of Freemasonry.

Modern Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians alike produced original teachings on law and politics, constructing them on distinct theological foundations, particularly their theology of human nature. The former, therefore, is an emblem of what concerns the earth and the body; the latter of what concerns the heavens and the soul. An emphasis on religious and cultural tolerance is shown throughout the work, emphasizing that the root of all religions is the same (according with the Prisca Theologia doctrine). Then it became the image of HORUS, the son of OSIRIS, himself symbolized also by the Sun, the author of the Seasons, and the God of Time; Son of Isis, who was the universal nature, himself the primitive matter, inexhaustible source of Life, spark of uncreated fire, universal seed of all beings.

If any man desecrate the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. The Blazing Star in the centre is said to be an emblem of Divine Providence, and commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the East to the place of our Saviour’s nativity. Given Pike’s presence in Arkansas in the mid-1860s, it is possible that portions of Morals and Dogma were penned either at his residence and library in Little Rock (Pulaski County), or at a primitive Ouachita Mountain cabin, where Pike spent the final two years of the Civil War. For simpleness and accessibility it is almost as hard as "Finnegan's wake" if you are a Mason you should definitely own a copy. The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male.

For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer. The most sagacious, the most calm, the most profound, decipher the hieroglyphs slowly; and when they arrive with their text, perhaps the need has long gone by; there are already twenty translations in the public square—the most incorrect being, as of course, the most accepted and popular. The tyrant's plea, necessity, is always available; and the tyrant once in power, the necessity of providing for his safety makes him savage.

In recent years, Albert Pike and his Masonic writings have engendered controversy on the basis of his affiliation with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, during which he served as brigadier general for the Confederacy. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. One of Pike's influences was the French author Éliphas Lévi, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant. Its thirty-two chapters discuss the philosophical symbolism of a degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in extensive detail. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained.