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Albert Pike: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of History, Arts and Religious Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9136-4277
2023 (English)In: Satanism: A Reader / [ed] Per Faxneld, Johan Nilsson, New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 1, p. 62-68Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter evaluates Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), which has become one of the most famous and notorious books about Masonry ever published, not least because of its references to Lucifer and Baphomet. While Pike was not by any definition a Satanist or a Luciferian, the ambivalent description of Lucifer in Morals and Dogma has contributed to the image of him as the primary proponent of Luciferian Masonry. Morals and Dogma is divided into thirty-two parts, each dealing with one of the degrees of the Scottish Rite, excluding the 33th. It claims to be the collected wisdom of several philosophical and mystical schools and is based upon the idea that there is a universal form of religion that transcends confessional boundaries. What distinguished Pike’s work from similar books is its very eclectic nature and the author’s frequent references to “pagan” sources.

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New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 1. p. 62-68
Keywords [en]
satanism, 19th century, conspiracy theories, lucifer, freemasonry, luciferianism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197718DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199913534.001.0001Libris ID: fx28kj6gc6b0zxs3ISBN: 9780199913534 (print)ISBN: 9780197650394 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197718DiVA, id: diva2:1795943
Available from: 2023-09-11 Created: 2023-09-11 Last updated: 2023-11-14

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