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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a clip from Morals and Dogma. You can
access the entire episode now on our website and all
podcast platforms. I have been repeatedly coming across the involvement
of the Scottish Right in the Kennedy assassination. Numerous well
(00:25):
known people in the Kennedy assassination story are associated with
the Scottish Right, and the Scottish Rights is one of
a handful of sects of freemasonry. And it got me thinking,
I need to understand this stuff because it's rearing its
ugly head and it's not quite the place to put
it with my Kennedy work, and it's not quite the
(00:46):
place to put it with my World War two work.
So I said, screw it, let's just put it on
its own podcast. And that's what we're gonna do. Welcome
to the Morals and Dogma podcast, a podcast designed to examine, analyze,
and really come to understand what the hell this freemason
(01:07):
thing is all about, because if you ask me, it's
a bunch of adults playing children. It's cowboys and Indians
on an adult level. And I'm hoping that throughout this
journey I'll be proven wrong. I'll come to some sort
of understanding of what these people actually believe in, But
at the moment I don't, and I have put off
(01:29):
the secret Society conversation forever. I have ignored overtly the
Freemason influence on our history, and it's time to put
an end to that. So that's what we're going to
do today. We're going to begin with morals and dogma
of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, prepared
for the Supreme Council of the thirty third Degree for
(01:52):
the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and published by
its authority. All Right, skip the table of contents. This
is by Albert Pike, who is considered the father of Freemasonry.
But in my Freemason studies thus far, it appears that
the Freemasons have been around for a lot longer than that.
(02:17):
All right, So I'll go ahead. I'll read the preface.
The following work has been prepared by the Authority of
the Supreme Council of the thirty third Degree for the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States by the Grand Commander,
and is now published by its direction. It contains the
lectures of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite in that jurisdiction,
and is specially intended to be read and studied by
(02:40):
the brethren of that obedience in connection with the rituals
of the degrees. It is hoped and expected that each
will furnish himself with a copy and make himself familiar
with it, for which purpose. As the cost of the
work consists entirely in the printing and binding, it will
be furnished at a price as moderate as possible. No
individual will received pure uniary profit from it, except the
(03:01):
agents for its sale. It has been copyrighted to prevent
its republication elsewhere. In The copyright, like those of all
works prepared for the Supreme Council, has been assigned to
the trustees for that body. Whatever profits may accrue from
it will be devoted to purposes of charity. The brimen
of the write in the United States and Canada will
be afforded the opportunity to purchase it, or is it
(03:23):
forbidden that other Masons shall, but they shall not be
solicit to do so. In preparing this work, the Grand
Commander has been about equally author and compiler, since he
has extracted quite half its contents from the works of
the best writers and most philosophic or thinkers. Perhaps it
would have been better and more acceptable if he had
(03:43):
extracted more and written less still, perhaps half of its own,
And in incorporating here the thoughts and words of others,
he has continually changed and added to the language, often
intermingling in the same sentences his own words with theirs.
It not being intended for the world at large, he's
felt at liberty to make, from all accessible sources a
(04:05):
compendium of the morals and dogma of the right to
remold sentences, change and add to words and phrases, combine
them with his own, and use them as if they
were his own, to be dealt with at his pleasure,
and so availed of as to make the whole most
valuable for the purposes intended. He claims therefore little of
(04:26):
meritive authorship, and has not cared to distinguish his own
from that which he has taken from other sources, being
quite willing that every portion of the book in turn
may be regarded as borrowed from some old and better writer.
The teachings of these readings are not sacramental, so far
as they go beyond the realm of morality into those
of other domains of thought and truth. The ancient and
(04:47):
accepted stish write uses the word dogma in its true
sense of doctrine or teaching, and is not dogmatic in
the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entirely free
to reject into sense from whatsoever herein may seem to
him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required
of him that he shall weigh what is taught and
(05:08):
give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the
ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part
of the doctrines of the right, but because of it
its interest and profit to know what the ancient intellect
thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves
radical difference between our human and animal nature as the
(05:28):
capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in
regard to itself and the deity. But as to these
opinions themselves, we may say, in the words of the
learned canonist Ludovicus Gomez, opinionists secundum varitatum temporum sense cant
at intermooriantor alique diverse a vel priorbus, contrerey rennus, cantor
(05:57):
et d'ende pubescent. The titles of degrees as herein given
have some instances been changed. The correct titles are as follows.
First degree apprentice, second degree Fellow craft, third degree Master,
fourth degree secret Master, fifth degree perfect Master, sixth degree
(06:17):
Intimate Secretary, seventh degree provost, then judge, eighth degree Intendant
of the Building, ninth degree Ilu of the nine, tenth
degree Ilu of the fifteenth, eleventh degree Islu of the twelve,
twelfth degree Master Architect, thirteenth degree Royal arc of Solomon,
fourteenth degree perfect Elu, fifteenth degree Knight of the East,
(06:41):
sixteenth degree Prince of Jerusalem, seventeenth degree Knight of the
East and West, eighteenth degree Knight Rose Kraw, nineteenth Pontiff,
twentieth Master of the Symbolic Lodge, twenty first no Kite
or Prussian Knight, twenty second degree, nine Night of the
Royal Axe or Prince of Lebanis, twenty three Chief of
(07:04):
the Tabernacle, twenty fourth degree Prince of the Tabernacle, twenty
fifth Knight of the Brazen Serpent, twenty sixth Prince of Mercy,
twenty seventh Night Commander of the Temple, twenty eighth Night
of the Sun or Prince Adept. Twenty ninth Scottish Knight
of Saint Andrew, thirtieth degree Knight Kadosh, thirty first degree
Inspector Inquisitor, thirty second degree Master of the Royal Secret
(07:32):
Chapter one A Prentice The twelve inch rule in the
common gavel. Force unregulated or ill regulated is not only
wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in
the open air, and steam unconfined by science, but striking
in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air,
(07:52):
they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin.
It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone, not growth
in progress. It is polyphemus, blinded, striking at random, and
falling headlong among the sharp rocks of the impetus of
his own blows. The blind force of the people is
a force that must be economized, but also managed, as
(08:13):
the blind force of steam. Lifting the preponderance iron arms
and turning the large wheels is made to bore and
rifle the cannon, and to weave the most delicate lace.
It must be regulated by intellect. Intellect is to the people,
and the people's force what the slender needle of the
compasses to the ship its soul, always counseling the huge
(08:34):
mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the
north to attack the citadels built up on all sides
against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices. The
force must have a brain and a law. Then its
deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress.
Then there are sublime conquests. Thought as a force in philosophy,
should be in energy, finding its aim and its effects.
(08:57):
In the ameloration of mankind. The two great motors are
truth and love. When all these forces are combined and
guided by the intellect, and regulated by the rule of
right and justice, and combined of systematic and movement and effort,
the great revolution prepared for by the ages will begin
to march. The power of the deity himself is an
(09:18):
equilibrium with his wisdom. Hence the only results are harmony.
It is because force is ill regulated that revolutions provide
fail tires. Therefore, it is that so often insurrections coming
from those high mountains that domineer over the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right,
(09:39):
built of the purest snow of the ideal, after a
long fall from a rock to rock, having reflected the
sky in their transparency, and having been swollen by a
hundred affluents in the majestic path of triumph, suddenly lose
themselves in quagmires, like a California river in the sands,
This is a clip from Morals and Dogma. You can
access the entire episode now on our website and all
podcast platforms. I have been repeatedly coming across the involvement
of the Scottish Right in the Kennedy assassination. Numerous well
(00:25):
known people in the Kennedy assassination story are associated with
the Scottish Right, and the Scottish Rights is one of
a handful of sects of freemasonry. And it got me thinking,
I need to understand this stuff because it's rearing its
ugly head and it's not quite the place to put
it with my Kennedy work, and it's not quite the
(00:46):
place to put it with my World War two work.
So I said, screw it, let's just put it on
its own podcast. And that's what we're gonna do. Welcome
to the Morals and Dogma podcast, a podcast designed to examine, analyze,
and really come to understand what the hell this freemason
(01:07):
thing is all about, because if you ask me, it's
a bunch of adults playing children. It's cowboys and Indians
on an adult level. And I'm hoping that throughout this
journey I'll be proven wrong. I'll come to some sort
of understanding of what these people actually believe in, But
at the moment I don't, and I have put off
(01:29):
the secret Society conversation forever. I have ignored overtly the
Freemason influence on our history, and it's time to put
an end to that. So that's what we're going to
do today. We're going to begin with morals and dogma
of the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, prepared
for the Supreme Council of the thirty third Degree for
(01:52):
the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and published by
its authority. All Right, skip the table of contents. This
is by Albert Pike, who is considered the father of Freemasonry.
But in my Freemason studies thus far, it appears that
the Freemasons have been around for a lot longer than that.
(02:17):
All right, So I'll go ahead. I'll read the preface.
The following work has been prepared by the Authority of
the Supreme Council of the thirty third Degree for the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States by the Grand Commander,
and is now published by its direction. It contains the
lectures of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite in that jurisdiction,
and is specially intended to be read and studied by
(02:40):
the brethren of that obedience in connection with the rituals
of the degrees. It is hoped and expected that each
will furnish himself with a copy and make himself familiar
with it, for which purpose. As the cost of the
work consists entirely in the printing and binding, it will
be furnished at a price as moderate as possible. No
individual will received pure uniary profit from it, except the
(03:01):
agents for its sale. It has been copyrighted to prevent
its republication elsewhere. In The copyright, like those of all
works prepared for the Supreme Council, has been assigned to
the trustees for that body. Whatever profits may accrue from
it will be devoted to purposes of charity. The brimen
of the write in the United States and Canada will
be afforded the opportunity to purchase it, or is it
(03:23):
forbidden that other Masons shall, but they shall not be
solicit to do so. In preparing this work, the Grand
Commander has been about equally author and compiler, since he
has extracted quite half its contents from the works of
the best writers and most philosophic or thinkers. Perhaps it
would have been better and more acceptable if he had
(03:43):
extracted more and written less still, perhaps half of its own,
And in incorporating here the thoughts and words of others,
he has continually changed and added to the language, often
intermingling in the same sentences his own words with theirs.
It not being intended for the world at large, he's
felt at liberty to make, from all accessible sources a
(04:05):
compendium of the morals and dogma of the right to
remold sentences, change and add to words and phrases, combine
them with his own, and use them as if they
were his own, to be dealt with at his pleasure,
and so availed of as to make the whole most
valuable for the purposes intended. He claims therefore little of
(04:26):
meritive authorship, and has not cared to distinguish his own
from that which he has taken from other sources, being
quite willing that every portion of the book in turn
may be regarded as borrowed from some old and better writer.
The teachings of these readings are not sacramental, so far
as they go beyond the realm of morality into those
of other domains of thought and truth. The ancient and
(04:47):
accepted stish write uses the word dogma in its true
sense of doctrine or teaching, and is not dogmatic in
the odious sense of that term. Everyone is entirely free
to reject into sense from whatsoever herein may seem to
him to be untrue or unsound. It is only required
of him that he shall weigh what is taught and
(05:08):
give it fair hearing and unprejudiced judgment. Of course, the
ancient theosophic and philosophic speculations are not embodied as part
of the doctrines of the right, but because of it
its interest and profit to know what the ancient intellect
thought upon these subjects, and because nothing so conclusively proves
radical difference between our human and animal nature as the
(05:28):
capacity of the human mind to entertain such speculations in
regard to itself and the deity. But as to these
opinions themselves, we may say, in the words of the
learned canonist Ludovicus Gomez, opinionists secundum varitatum temporum sense cant
at intermooriantor alique diverse a vel priorbus, contrerey rennus, cantor
(05:57):
et d'ende pubescent. The titles of degrees as herein given
have some instances been changed. The correct titles are as follows.
First degree apprentice, second degree Fellow craft, third degree Master,
fourth degree secret Master, fifth degree perfect Master, sixth degree
(06:17):
Intimate Secretary, seventh degree provost, then judge, eighth degree Intendant
of the Building, ninth degree Ilu of the nine, tenth
degree Ilu of the fifteenth, eleventh degree Islu of the twelve,
twelfth degree Master Architect, thirteenth degree Royal arc of Solomon,
fourteenth degree perfect Elu, fifteenth degree Knight of the East,
(06:41):
sixteenth degree Prince of Jerusalem, seventeenth degree Knight of the
East and West, eighteenth degree Knight Rose Kraw, nineteenth Pontiff,
twentieth Master of the Symbolic Lodge, twenty first no Kite
or Prussian Knight, twenty second degree, nine Night of the
Royal Axe or Prince of Lebanis, twenty three Chief of
(07:04):
the Tabernacle, twenty fourth degree Prince of the Tabernacle, twenty
fifth Knight of the Brazen Serpent, twenty sixth Prince of Mercy,
twenty seventh Night Commander of the Temple, twenty eighth Night
of the Sun or Prince Adept. Twenty ninth Scottish Knight
of Saint Andrew, thirtieth degree Knight Kadosh, thirty first degree
Inspector Inquisitor, thirty second degree Master of the Royal Secret
(07:32):
Chapter one A Prentice The twelve inch rule in the
common gavel. Force unregulated or ill regulated is not only
wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in
the open air, and steam unconfined by science, but striking
in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air,
(07:52):
they recoil and bruise itself. It is destruction and ruin.
It is the volcano, the earthquake, the cyclone, not growth
in progress. It is polyphemus, blinded, striking at random, and
falling headlong among the sharp rocks of the impetus of
his own blows. The blind force of the people is
a force that must be economized, but also managed, as
(08:13):
the blind force of steam. Lifting the preponderance iron arms
and turning the large wheels is made to bore and
rifle the cannon, and to weave the most delicate lace.
It must be regulated by intellect. Intellect is to the people,
and the people's force what the slender needle of the
compasses to the ship its soul, always counseling the huge
(08:34):
mass of wood and iron, and always pointing to the
north to attack the citadels built up on all sides
against the human race by superstitions, despotisms, and prejudices. The
force must have a brain and a law. Then its
deeds of daring produce permanent results, and there is real progress.
Then there are sublime conquests. Thought as a force in philosophy,
should be in energy, finding its aim and its effects.
(08:57):
In the ameloration of mankind. The two great motors are
truth and love. When all these forces are combined and
guided by the intellect, and regulated by the rule of
right and justice, and combined of systematic and movement and effort,
the great revolution prepared for by the ages will begin
to march. The power of the deity himself is an
(09:18):
equilibrium with his wisdom. Hence the only results are harmony.
It is because force is ill regulated that revolutions provide
fail tires. Therefore, it is that so often insurrections coming
from those high mountains that domineer over the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, right,
(09:39):
built of the purest snow of the ideal, after a
long fall from a rock to rock, having reflected the
sky in their transparency, and having been swollen by a
hundred affluents in the majestic path of triumph, suddenly lose
themselves in quagmires, like a California river in the sands,
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