Albert Pike – Etos and Doctrine: Student (1°)

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The first volume of work Etos and Doctrine of the Masonry of the Scots Rituary of the erstwhile and Recognized

Albert Pike, 33°

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Only 333 numbered copies!

This is not a book about “masonry”.

It's a book. for those who want to realize what initiation, reason and work is.

‘Student’ is first and fundamental chapter a monumental work by Albert Pike, 1 of the most crucial authors in the past of free-multure. There are no legends, no anecdotes, no simplifications in this volume. It is. First Degree Philosophy: force that must be mastered; reason that must regulate it; law that gives it form.

If the foundation is weak, the full building falls.
Pike begins from the foundation.

What is the Student about?

This volume concerns:

first degree masonry as a phase of human forming,
relationships strength and reason, freedom and rights,
meanings of symbols: Measurements, Hammer, Stone of the Uncircumcised and Perfect,
the work of the individual towards the community,
error, tyranny, revolution and moral courage,
The function of doctrine in public and individual life.

It's a text. difficult, dense and uncompromising.
It's not comforting. It does.

Who was Albert Pike?

Albert Pike (1809–1891) was an American poet, journalist, lawyer and 1 of The most crucial figures in the past of the 19th century free-multure. A man with extended classical erudition, profoundly rooted in ancient philosophy, hermetic thought, and initiation traditions.

With the masonry associated since 1850, in a short time he passed all the symbolic steps and side engravings to yet associate with Former and Accredited Scottish Rit. In 1859 he was elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the South Jurisdiction of RSDiU in the United States, holding this office until death. He played a key function in reform of Scottish rituals, whose fresh versions, published in 1868, shaped the modern practice of this strategy around the world.

His most crucial work remains Morals and Dogma (1871) — monumental treaty on philosophy, symbolism and Masonic doctrine, which to this day is considered to be 1 of the most demanding and influential works of free-sea literature. Pike was neither a moralist nor a theologian; he was philosopher of initiationfor which the masonry was a tool for forming reason, character and civic responsibility.

A controversial character, frequently burdened with later myths and conspiracy theories, remains, however, above all architect of modern Masonic thought and an author whose lyrics inactive provoke to intellectual confrontation alternatively than passive reading.

Why a separate edition?

Original Morals and Dogma It's a immense and airtight work.
We print them. Chapter by chapterthat each volume would be:

independent initiation threshold,
possible for careful, deeper reading,
also available to readers outside the Masonry.

‘Student’ is the most crucial volume of the full series.
Those who do not realize him will not realize the next.

New Polish translation

translation without simplifying sense,
preserved Pike's archaic, rhetorical style,
consistent Masonic and philosophical terminology,
extensive historical and symbolic footnotes,
prepared edition to read, not to “view”.
The author of the translation is Klaus Dąbrowski, 33° – Honorary Sovereign Commander of the Council of the advanced Poland of the Scots Ritual of the Ancient and the Recognized, who himself is the author of respective well-readed books on free-multure.

It's not a paraphrase.
This. literary-philosophy translation.

Who's this book for?

for freebuilders
for those curious in the doctrine of initiation
for readers of political and ethical thought
for those who are not afraid of demanding texts
not for those seeking ‘secrets’, sensations and abbreviations