Morals and Dogma

Albert Pike's 1871 work on the philosophy of the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction. Drawing on a wide range of religious, philosophical and esoteric sources, including Kabbalah, Hermeticism and the writings of Eliphas Lévi, Pike interprets the symbolism of each degree. Long and discursive, it is an important document for understanding the intellectual world of nineteenth-century Freemasonry and its esoteric interests.