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Now you’re probably going to tell me that you’ve read all of Pike’s “Morals and Dogma”… I admit that I haven’t.
Please tell me where the above referred to disagreement is (ie page number, paragraph, etc)…
I normally do not make long posts because I usually do not read them myself. The link is not the best of websites. A lot of anti Catholic stuff. But the oath was close to what I remember in my own lodge. Remember, each state in the US does it juuuust a little differently. The quote from Pike is easily traceable. And remember, Not all is taught in the blue lodge. And even in the scottish rite one has more & more opened. Pike himself taught that the worship of Lucifer was not to be sprung on the new initiate. I guess that was so as to not scare him off.
trosch.org/bks/blue_lodge.html
Albert Pike 33°
"That which we must say to a crowd is - We worship a God, but it is the God that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the Brethren of the 32nd, 31st, and 30th degrees - The Masonic Religion should be, by alll of us initates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian Doctrine.
If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay whose deeds prove his cruelty, perdify and hatred of man, barbarism and repulsion for science, would Adonay and his priests, calumniate him?
Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god. For the eternal law is that there is no light without shade, no beauty without ugliness, no white without black, for the absolute can only exist as two gods: darkness being necessary to the statue, and the brake to the locomotive.
Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay; but Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay, the God of Darkness and Evil."
Instructions to the 23 Supreme Councils of the World, July 14, 1889. Recorded by A.C. De La Rive in La Femme et l’Enfant dans la FrancMaconnerie Universelle on page 588
"Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with it’s splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! Morals and Dogma page 321
Now, please get the whole book & read it. Please read it all.