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Section 2

MasonicPersonalities!!!

arranged in noparticular order

TWO FACES

84Fig. 1 — Hierarchy of Freemasonry.

(SJ) Albert Pike

(1809-1891).Masonic philosopher and ritualist. See

Scarlet and Beast

, Vols.1, 2, & 3.Pike, from 1859 until his death in 1891, occupied simultaneously thepositions of Grand Master of the Central Directory of Scottish RiteFreemasonry at Washington, D.C., Sovereign Grand Commander of theSupreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction(SJ) at Charleston, S.C., and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry.

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Quotes from Albert Pike

Pike describes the cabalistic view of Satan in his book

Morals and Dogma

:"The true name of Satan, the Kabalist say, is that of Yahveh reversed;for Satan is not a black god, but the negation of God. The Devil is thepersonification of Atheism or Idolatry."For the Initiates, this is not a Person, but a Force, created for good,but which may serve for evil. It is the instrument of Liberty or Free Will.They represent this Force, which presides over the Physical generation,under the mythologic and horned form of the God Pan; thence camethe he-goat of the Sabbat, brother of the Ancient Serpent, and the light-bearer or Phosphor, of which the poets have made the false Lucifer of the Legend." Pike, Albert,

Morals and Dogma

1871. Richmond VA: L.H. Jenkins, 1942. p.102.Pike's view of the Catholic Inquisitions: "The dunces who led primitiveChristianity astray, by substituting faith for science, reverie for experience, the fantastic for the reality; and the inquisitor who for somany ages waged against Magism a war of extermination, have succeededin shrouding in darkness the ancient discoveries of the human mind;so that we now grope in the dark to find again the key of the phenomena of nature." Pike, 732.Pike took fifty years to develop and gradually introduce his LuciferianRite to a select few within the 33rd Degree Supreme Council at Charles-ton. He also converted the Masonic hierarchy in London, Berlin, andRome. During the latter half of his work, however, French atheists beganto attack spiritism and symbolism within French Lodges. By 1877 FrenchFreemasonry overtly declared what it had covertly taught from 1840 on;that there is no god but humanity. English Freemasonry, which demandsa belief in deity, immediately broke fellowship with the French GrandOrient. Pike, as Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Freemasonry, wanted toheal the rift by presenting his Luciferian Doctrine at the July 15, 1889,Supreme Council convention in Paris, France. Unable to travel due topoor health, he instead explicated the doctrine in a letter to be read onthe convention floor. Immediately following the convention the letter was published in French by A.C. De La Rive in

La Femme et L'Enfant dans la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle

(p.588).

The Freemason

, a Masonicperiodical in England, noted the reading of the letter in its January 19,