Hello Brothers, my Lodge had just performed a 1st degree tonight (I was SD and it went very well! Not to toot my own horn lol) Ironically, I had recently ordered Albert Pikes “Esoteric Work of the 1st through 3rd degree, According to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite” and it arrived today as well. I read through the 1st, thinking it would elaborate on the degree we preformed tonight, however I I am glad I didn’t read it beforehand as I think it just confused me. This got me thinking, what is all of your takes on Albert Pike?
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I had no idea this was a thing? Does anyone know more about it?
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From The Birmingham Age Herald, September 5, 1913.
Where the rocks are gray and the shore is steep,
And the waters below look dark and deep,
Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride
Leans gloomily over the murky tide,
Where the reeds and rushes are long and rank
And the weeds grow thick on the winding bank,
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day through,
There lies at its moorings the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped,
Like a sea bird’s wings that the storms had lopped,
And crossed o’er the railings one o’er one,
Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busily back and forth between
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn owl, with his dull “too-hoo,”
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
The stern, half sunk in the slimy wave
Rots slowly away in its living grave,
And the green moss creeps o’er its dull decay
Hiding its moldering dust away
Like the hand that plants o’er the tomb a flower
Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower,
While many a blossom of loveliest hue
Springs up o’er the stern of the old canoe.
The currentless waters are dead and still,
But the light wind plays with the boat at will,
And lazily in and out again
It floats the length of the rusty chain
Like the weary march of the hands of time
That meet and part at the noontide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turning anew
By the dripping bow of the old canoe.
Oh, many a time, with a careless hand
I have pushed it away from the pebbly strand,
And paddled it down where the stream runs quick
Where the whirls are wide and the eddies thick,
And laughed as I leaned o’er the rocking side
And looked below in the broken tide
The see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrored back from the old canoe.
But now, as I lean o’er the crumbling side,
And look below in the broken tide,
The face that I see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that I hear has a sobered tone,
And the hanks that lent to the light skiff wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things.
But I love to think of the hours that sped
As I rocked where the whirls their white spray shed,
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew
O’er the moldering stern of the old canoe.
Hello, this is my first time posting here but have been lurking for a while. I wanted to run something by the group to see if its valid or exaggerated/embellished by Rosicrucians. The claim I first found is here (that Pike accepted a role in a Rosicrucian society) and also the letter offering him this Rosicrucian authority role here. Since I have been unable to find Pike's response to this letter or any evidence from any biography of his that he became part of a Rosicrucian society of course I'm skeptical but maybe it's true? It also seems to be referenced by other Freemasons Rosicrucians from the S.R.I.C.F. like in this document, which says:
"Pike was made Supreme Magus of the Rosicrucian Society in the United States on May 17, 1880, and took an enthusiastic interest in the Society."
edit: and also states that Pike "completed the task" of working with an unknown Rosicrucian body to re-write "numeric grades I° through IX° of Masonic Rosicrucianism"
If anybody has anymore leads on this information i would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
edit2: Since making this post I came across a pretty great book The History of Organized Masonic Rosicrucianism, it provides some of the answers to my questions but not all
The only statue of a Confederate officer in DC is of Albert Pike, a senior officer in the Confederate Army. I don't care that the statue "memorializes him as a Mason." If he's a racist, he doesn't belong in my city.
Thoughts anyone?
Seeing on social media feeds that they're closing right now and staying closed all day Saturday for cleaning.
I read his wikipedia page and a short article on the Smithsonian, but that just left me more curious. Was he a slave owner? Did he support the cause of slavery? Was he more motivated by his work with Native Americans?
What's up with this guy?
