Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

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• Founding of the Knights Templar pp. 1051-1056

  In 1118, nine Knights Crusaders in the East, among whom were Geoffroi de Saint-Omer and Hugues de Payens, consecrated themselves to religion…

• Knights Templar at peak of wealth pp. 1057-1062

  They became so, and in 1312 they possessed in Europe alone more than nine thousand seignories.

• Arrest of the Knights Templar pp. 1057-1062

  Pope Clement V. and King Philip le Bel gave the signal to Europe, and the Templars, taken as it were in an immense net, were arrested, disar…

• Execution of Jacques de Molay and Templar leaders pp. 1057-1062

  The end of the drama is well known, and how Jacques de Molai and his fellows perished in the flames. But before his execution, the Chief of…

• Death of Guillaume de Lorris pp. 1063-1069

  Guillaume de Lorris, who died in 1260, five years before the birth of Alighieri, had not completed his Roman de la Rose

• Execution of King Louis XVI pp. 1063-1069

  When Louis XVI. was executed, half the work was done; and thenceforward the Army of the Temple was to direct all its efforts against the Pop…

• Birth of Dante Alighieri pp. 1201-1210

  Dante Alighieri, the Ghibellin, born in 1265

• Mysteries of Eleusis established pp. 529-534

  The Greeks fix the date of the establishment of the Mysteries of Eleusis at the year 1423 B.C., during the reign of Erechtheus at Athens.

• Astronomical epoch - Sun in Taurus pp. 565-572

  At the Vernal Equinox, 2455 years before our Era, the Sun was entering the sign and constellation Taurus, or the Bull

• Astronomical epoch - Sun in Aries pp. 565-572

  At the two periods, 2455 and 300 years before Christ, and now, the entrances of the sun at the Equinoxes and Solstices into the signs, were…

• Sothiac astronomical period pp. 593-598

  This period of 1461 years, each of 365 days, bringing back the commencement of the Solar year to the Solstitial point, at the rising of Siri…

• States of Holland proscribe Masonic Lodges pp. 68-73

  Because true Masonry, unemasculated, bore the banners of Freedom and Equal Rights, and was in rebellion against temporal and spiritual tyran…

• Louis XV forbids Masonic Lodges in France pp. 68-73

  In 1737, Louis XV. forbade them in France.

• Pope Clement XII condemns Freemasonry pp. 68-73

  In 1738, Pope Clement XII. issued against them his famous Bull of Excommunication, which was renewed by Benedict XIV.; and in 1743 the Counc…

• Council of Berne proscribes Freemasonry pp. 68-73

  and in 1743 the Council of Berne also proscribed them.

• Reference to Osiris pp. 477-482

  He was Sirius or the Dog-Star, the friend and counsellor of Osiris, and the inventor of language, grammar, astronomy, surveying, arithmetic,…

• Reference to Herodotus pp. 477-482

  Herodotus says, speaking of the reasons why animals were deified in Egypt: “If I were to explain these reasons, I should be led to the discl…

• Reference to Plutarch pp. 477-482

  Plutarch assures us that it was to represent these events and details that Isis established the Mysteries, in which they were reproduced by…

• Reference to Orpheus pp. 506-511

  Orpheus, author of the Grecian Mysteries, which he carried from Egypt to Greece, consecrated this symbol: and taught that matter, uncreated…

• Reference to Cicero pp. 506-511

  And Cicero says, that the ancient soothsayers, and the interpreters of the will of the Gods, in their religious ceremonies and initiations,…

• Historical event - 1423 BC pp. 529-534

  s future fate. The Greeks fix the date of the establishment of the Mysteries of Eleusis at the year 1423 B.C., during the reign of Erechtheu…

• Reference to Hermes pp. 639-645

  The Caduceus, borne by Hermes or Mercury, and also by Cybele, Minerva, Anubis, Hercules Ogmius the God of the Celts, and the personified Con…

• Reference to Mithras pp. 667-673

  None has the right to object, if the Christian Mason sees foreshadowed in Chrishna and Sosiosch, in Mithras and Osiris, the Divine WORD that…

• Reference to Moses pp. 792-797

  The Jews feared that the Heathen would get possession of the Name: and therefore, in their copies of the Scriptures, they wrote it in the Sa…

• Reference to Pythagoras pp. 792-797

  Pythagoras gave to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls that meaning which the wise Egyptians gave to it in their Mysteries: He never…

• Reference to Plato pp. 859-863

  It was taught by Timæsus, Plato, Speusippus, Iamblichus, Macrobius, Marcus Aurelius, and Pythagoras

• Reference to Aristotle pp. 859-863

  And this opinion of Achilles Tatius, Diodorus, Chrysippus, Aristotle, Plato, Heraclides of Pontus, Theophrastus, Simplicius, Macrobius, and…

• Reference to Zoroaster pp. 559-564

  This doctrine is taught in the oracles of Zoroaster: and these Genii were the Intelligences that resided in the planets

• Reference to Confucius pp. 785-791

  Confucius forbade making images or representations of the Deity

• Reference to Socrates pp. 785-791

  Among the Greeks, the scholars of the Egyptians, all the higher ideas and severer doctrines on the Divinity, his Sovereign Nature and Infini…

• Reference to Archelaus pp. 693-698

  ” Archelaus, Bishop of Cascara in Mesopotamia, who, in the year 278, conducted a controversy with the Manichæans, said: “These Mysteries the…