It is said that he found Freemasonry in a hut and left it in a
palace.
Without question as you look into this face you look at the spirit of
Freemasonry. Albert Pike is buried in the walls of the 33rd
degree headquarters - an honour no other man has ever
received.
His extensive
writings are treasured by and quoted from in Freemasonry
worldwide.
It is important to note the symbol hanging around his
neck. (enlarge Pike's
photo) This is the symbol of Baphomet or Mendes. It appears on much 33rd degree notepaper
and in very slightly modified form in their symbolry.
- Scarlet and the Beast, John
Daniels, vol 2, page 126 (http://www.scarletandthebeast.com)
This room is a memorial to Albert Pike, who was
Grand Commander of this Supreme Council from 1859 until his
death in 1891, at the age of 82. During these 32 years, he wrote
and compiled many books and became familiar with numerous
languages, among them Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. He is
recognized as a great Masonic scholar, philosopher, and
historian. He used his vast talents to research and rewrite the
Rituals of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. His renown as
a jurist, orator, philosopher, scholar, soldier, and poet
extends throughout the world
The Albert Pike Room contains, in
addition to his personal memorabilia, a model of the monument
erected in his memory, the original of which is located at Third
Street and Indiana Avenue, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., near
the U.S. Department of Labor building. This is the only statue
in the District of Columbia honoring a Confederate General. Also
included in the Pike Room’s displays are first editions and
holograph copies of many of Pike’s works; his original desk,
lamp, clock, and chair; many personal items including Masonic
regalia, a representative sampling of his large collection of
pipes, and a plaster-cast mask similar to a life mask of Abraham
Lincoln on display in the Americanism Museum of the House of the
Temple
'Thirty-third degree Freemason Albert Pike (1809-1891), the man
destined to develop the Luciferian Doctrine for the Masonic hierarchy,
could not accept the Lucifer and Satan were the same personality. While
teaching his beliefs to a select few in the Supreme Council, Pike became
the most powerful Mason in the world. Although an obscure general in the
Confederate Army during the American Civil War, he was hardly
inconspicuous in Freemasonry. From 1859 until his death in 1891,
Pike occupied simultaneously the positions of Grand Master of the
Central Directory at Washington, D.C., Grand Commander of the Supreme
Council at Charleston, S.C., and Sovereign Pontiff of Universal
Freemasonry. He was an honorary member of almost every Supreme Council
in the world, personally receiving 130 Masonic degrees.
Pike also was one of the most physically and morally repulsive
individuals in American history. Weighing well over three hundred
pounds, his sexual proclivity was to sit naked astride a phallic throne
in the woods, accompanied by a gang of prostitutes. To these orgies he
would bring one or more wagonloads of food and liquor, most of which he
would consume over a period of two days until he passed into a stupor.
In his adopted state of Arkansas, Pike was well known as a
practitioner of Satanism, Portraits of his later years show him wearing
a symbol of the Baphomet around his neck. Pike, however, did not believe
the Baphomet was Satan. In Morals and Dogma he explains that this symbol
was "misunderstood by those who were not adepts"; that it was
"invented ages before, to conceal what it was (too) dangerous to
avow."
Pike, a gifted polyglot who mastered sixteen ancient languages,
discovered that the Baphomet was originally a symbol of Lucifer,
the hermaphrodite god of pagans. He found in paganism no adversary known
as Satan. Satan was mentioned only in the Bible, and according to Pike,
was a fabrication of Christians. "Thus", writes Pike,
"the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy; and the true and pure
philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer...." '
- Scarlet and the Beast, John
Daniel, Vol 2, Page 37 (http://www.scarletandthebeast.com/)
Albert Pike wrote to Guiseppe Mazzini on August 15,
1871, calling for world war to force all governments to submit to a one
world Masonic Republic. Catalogued, and on display in the British Museum
Library at London, the letter reads in part:
We shall unleash the Nihilists and the Atheists and we
shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which, in all its horror,
will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, the
origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the
citizens, forced to defend themselves against the world minority of
revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilisation, and
the multitude disillusioned with Christianity...anxious for an ideal,
but without knowledge where to render its adoration, will receive the
pure light..of Lucifer, brought finally out into public view, a
manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement
which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both
conquered and exterminated at the same time
- Scarlet and the Beast, John
Daniel, vol 1 (http://www.scarletandthebeast.com)
In the nineteenth century both Albert Pike of Charleston and his successor Adriano
Lemmi have been identified upon abundant authority as being Grand Masters of Societies
practising Satanism and as performing hierarchal functions of “the Devil” at the
modern Sabbat.
- ‘The History of Witchcraft’ by Montague
Summers, Page 8 .
Masons are quick to deny Pike's influence on masonry when his explicit Luciferian doctrines are quoted - but the fact is that he is
still regarded by all masons as their figure head even in the year 2000.
- from a Masonic website
Hero or scoundrel?
The Smithsonian Associates Civil war studies, in their newsletter volume 5, number 1 write..
Carved at the base of Albert Pike's statue at Third and D Streets in Northwest Washington are the words, "philosopher, jurist, orator, author, poet, scholar, soldier." Some of his contemporaries could accurately add, "libertine, traitor, glutton, incompetent, murderer."
