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Albert Pike's Magnum Opus: A History and Facsimile Edition of Pike's First Revision of the Scottish Rite's Rituals, 4°-32°

Albert Pike's Magnum Opus: A History and Facsimile Edition of Pike's First Revision of the Scottish Rite's Rituals, 4°-32°

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $75.00

ISBN10: 1637235437
ISBN13: 9781637235430
Publisher: Westphalia Press
Published: Mar 7 2025
Pages: 696
Weight: 4.15
Height: 1.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

In 1855 the Scottish Rite's Mother Supreme Council of the World at Charleston, S.C., appointed a committee of five persons to review and standardize its initiation ceremonies and rituals. Only one person completed the task-46-year-old Albert Pike who would ultimately become the most influential Scottish Rite Mason in history. After two years he printed 100 copies of an untitled text which Albert G. Mackey called the Magnum Opus (great work). Although never officially adopted, Pike's revision was a monumental step forward, as it served as the basis for ritual revisions used worldwide. This valuable work allows us to trace the development of both Scottish Rite ritual and philosophy. The lectures which accompany the rituals were the foundation for his most famous work, Morals and Dogma. In his introduction de Hoyos, the Scottish Rite's Grand Historian, provides an overview of the rituals used from the Scottish Rite's beginning in 1801 up to Pike's time.

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