Albert Pike

Albert Pike The Grand Old Man Of Masonry 

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Author, Poet, Scholar, Soldier, Philanthropist, Philosopher, Jurist, Orator and Vixit Laborum Ejus Super Stites Sunt Fructus; He has lived. The fruits of his labors live after him.

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"He received the 29 degrees of the Scottish Rite in March 1853 from Albert Gallatin Mackey in Charleston, S.C. Mackey invited Pike to join the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction in 1858 in Charleston.

Mackey invited Pike to join the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction in 1858 in Charleston, and he became the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council the following year. Pike held that office until his death (a total of thirty-two years),..." Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike

Albert Pike was recognized as a 33º Mason. Pike is still regarded in America as an eminent and influential Freemason. He devoting a large amount of his time to developing the rituals of the order.  The Southern Jurisdiction is based in Washington, D.C., the Southern Jurisdiction often referred to as the "Mother Supreme Council of the World" and was founded in Charleston, South Carolina in 1801. It oversees the Scottish Rite in 35 states, which are referred to as Orients, and local bodies, which are called Valleys.

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In Arkansas in 1833, he taught school and wrote a series of articles for the Little Rock Arkansas Advocate under the pen name of "Casca."

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The House of the Temple contains the remains of Albert Pike.

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He was owner-publisher of the Memphis, Tennessee, Daily Appeal.

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Christopher means Christ-like. To the adept, Albert Pike achieved a mystical apotheosis in the Lodge of Perfection and brought forth the Christ within. He thus became Christed taking on the name Christopher.

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Morals and Dogma 

"Morals and Dogma was traditionally given to the candidate upon his receipt of the 14th degree of the Scottish Rite. This practice was stopped in 1974. Morals and Dogma has not been given to candidates since 1974. A Bridge to Light, by Rex R. Hutchens, is provided to candidates today. Hutchens laments that Morals and Dogma is read by so few Masons. A Bridge to Light was written to be "a bridge between the ceremonies of the degrees and their lectures in Morals and Dogma." - Morals And Dogma By Albert Pike Under Biography

Consider to be a great and vault book to Freemasonry write by Pike. Often given as you progress thru the degrees. “Even the casual observer must realize that the true wealth of Freemasonry lies in its mysticism. The average Masonic scholar, however, is fundamentally opposed to a mystical interpretation of his symbols, for he shares the attitude of the modern mind in its general antipathy towards transcendentalism. A most significant fact, however, is that those Masons who have won signal honors for their contributions to the Craft have been transcendentalists almost without exception. It is quite incredible, moreover, that any initiated Brother, when presented with a copy of Morals and Dogma upon the conferment of his fourteenth degree, can read that volume and yet maintain that his order is not identical with the Mystery Schools of the first ages….. for whichever way the Mason turns he is confronted by these inescapable issues of philosophy and the Mysteries. Yet withal he dismisses the entire subject as being more or less a survival of primitive superstitions. (Lectures on Ancient Philosophy—An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure: The Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles, First Edition 1929, Manly P. Hall pp 413-414)

"Much of the writings of Albert Pike are extracted from the books of the French magician, Eliphas Levi, one of the greatest transcendentalists of modern times. Levi was an occultist, a metaphysician, a Platonic philosopher, who by the rituals of magic invoked even the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana, and yet Pike has inserted in his Morals and Dogma whole pages, and even chapters, practically verbatim." - From Lectures on Ancient Philosophy Manly P. Hall, First Edition 1929, Chapter 19