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