The higher Masons (Princes and Mystics) deliberately deceive the Masons below them. For example, Albert Pike was one of the highest authorities in American Freemasonry. He was Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry from 1859 to 1891. He was also Grand Commander of the Thirty-Third Degree, as well as a Mystic Prince. His book "Ethics and Doctrine" is given to men when they reach the 32nd degree. The following passages from Pike's "Morals and Dogma" show that Masons of the highest order deliberately deceive Masons below them.
Part of the symbols appear there to the initiate, but he is deliberately misled by false interpretations. He has no intention of understanding them. But he is meant to imagine that he understands them.
There must always be a banal interpretation for the mass of initiates, the symbols that are eloquent in the Mystics.
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Part of the symbols appear there to the initiate, but he is deliberately misled by false interpretations. He has no intention of understanding them. But he is meant to imagine that he understands them.
There must always be a banal interpretation for the mass of initiates, the symbols that are eloquent in the Mystics.
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