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Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back to Morals and Dogma podcast, episode two.

Today we're going to continue with the Morals and Dogma book by Albert Pike.

Remember, we're attempting to get to the bottom of what these weirdos are about, right?

So, let me begin. 2. The fellow craft.

In the Orient, all religion was more or less a mystery, and there was no divorce from it of philosophy.

The popular theology, taking the multitude of allegories and symbols for realities, generated

into a worship of celestial luminaries, of imaginary deities,

with human feelings, passionate, passions, appetites, and lusts of idols, stones, animals, reptiles.

The onion was sacred to the Egyptians because its different layers were a symbol of the concentric

heavenly spheres. Of course, the popular religion could not satisfy the deeper longings and thoughts,

the loftier aspirations of the spirit or the logic of reason.

The first, therefore, was taught to the initiated in the mysteries.

There also, it was taught by symbols.

The vagueness of symbolism, capable of many interpretations,

reached what the palpable and conventional creed could not. It's indefiniteness,

acknowledged the obtruseness of the subject. It treated that mysterious subject mystically.

It endeavored to illustrate what it could not explain, to excite

an appropriate feeling, if it could not develop an adequate idea, and to make the image a mere

subordinate conveyance for the conception, which itself never became obvious or familiar.

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