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Albert Pike

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, 29 December 1809, Albert Pike is asserted within the Southern Jurisdiction as the man most responsible for the growth and success of the Scottish Rite from an obscure Masonic Rite in the mid-1800's, to the international fraternity that it became. Pike received the 4th through the 32nd Degrees from the American Masonic historian, Dr. Albert G. Mackey, in Charleston, S.C., in March 1853, and, in that same year, Pike was appointed Deputy Inspector for Arkansas.

At this point, the degrees were in only a rudimentary form, and often only included a brief history and legend of each degree as well as other brief details which usually lacked a workable ritual for their conferral. In 1855, the Supreme Council appointed a committee to prepare and compile rituals for the 4th through the 32nd Degrees. That committee was composed of Albert G. Mackey, John H. Honour, W. S. Rockwell, C. Samory, and Albert Pike. Of these five committee members, Pike did all the work of the committee.

In March 1858, Pike was elected a member of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, and in January 1859 he became its Grand Commander. The War between the states interrupted his work on the Scottish Rite rituals. After the War, he moved to Washington, DC, and in 1868 his revision, and de-christianisation, of the rituals was complete. Pike also wrote lectures for all the degrees which were published in 1871 under the title "Morals & Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite".

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Albert Pikes written works include:

  1. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

  2. Beyond the Law : The Religious and Ethical Meaning of the Lawyer's Vocation - Albert Pike

  3. Book of the Words - Albert Pike

  4. Digest Index of Morals & Dogma - Albert Pike, 1909

  5. Esoteric Work of the 1 Degree - 3 Degree, According to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite - Albert Pike

  6. Evil Consequences of Schisms and Disputes for Power in Masonry and of Jealousies and Dissensions Between Masonic Rites - Albert Pike, 1858

  7. Ex Corde Locutiones: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren - Albert Pike

  8. General Albert Pike's Poems, 1900

  9. Historical Inquiry in Regard to the Grand Constitutions of 1786 - 1883 - Albert Pike

  10. Hymns to the Gods and Other Poems - Albert Pike

  11. Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship As Contained in the Rig-Veda - Albert Pike

  12. Irano-Aryan Faith and Doctrine As Contained in the Zend-Avesta - Albert Pike

  13. Lectures of the Arya - Albert Pike

  14. Lectures on Masonic Symbolism and a Second Lecture on Symbolism or the Omkara and Other Ineffable Words - Albert Pike

  15. Legenda and Readings of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - Albert Pike

  16. Liturgies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry 4 Degree - 30 Degree - Albert Pike

  17. Liturgy of the Blue Degrees - Albert Pike

  18. Lyrics and Love Songs - Albert Pike, 1899

  19. Magnum Opus or the Great Work: The Complete Ritual Work of Scottish Rite Freemasonry - Albert Pike

  20. Masonic Baptism: Reception of a Louveteau and Adoption - Albert Pike

  21. Masonry of Adoption: Masonic Rituals for Women Complete With the Verbatim Degree Lectures and the "Secret Work" - Albert Pike

  22. Meaning of Masonry - Albert Pike

  23. Narrative of a Journey in the Prairie - Albert Pike, 1835

  24. Old Cashier of the 33d Degree - Albert Pike

  25. The Point Within the Circle: Freemasonry Veiled in Allegory and Illustrated by Symbols - Albert Pike

  26. The Porch and the Middle Chamber: Book of the Lodge - Albert Pike

  27. Prose Sketches & Poems Written in the Western Country - Albert Pike, 1834

  28. Pythagoras and Hermes - Albert Pike

  29. Rituals of Old Degrees - Albert Pike

  30. What Masonry Is & Its Objects; Ancient Ideals in Modern Masonry - Albert Pike, 1919

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