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Reading Morals and Dogma

Warrior1256

Warrior1256

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I am slogging my way, slowly but surely, through Morals and Dogma. It is very slow going because I want to actually understand what I am reading. When I come to something that I don't really understand, which is frequently, I go to Google for research. I am now on page 100, only 761 more pages to go.
 
cemab4y

cemab4y

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Do you have a copy of the paraphrase edition, "Morals and Dogma for the 21st Century" ? I am getting a copy, after I leave the hospital. I have always been interested in M&D, but the text is difficult to understand.

see http://morals-and-dogma.com
 
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Ressam

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Warrior1256 said:
I am slogging my way, slowly but surely, through Morals and Dogma. It is very slow going because I want to actually understand what I am reading. When I come to something that I don't really understand, which is frequently, I go to Google for research. I am now on page 100, only 761 more pages to go.
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Good luck!
Please, share some extracts from the book here, which, may be you found interestin'.
 
Pscyclepath

Pscyclepath

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I have the de la Hoya copy given me when I joined the Scottish Rite several years ago. Much easier with the annotations, but it's still really thick reading. Pike's big deal was comparative theologies, so the book is heavily weighted in that direction. I've gotten the most illumination from "A Bridge to Light" and a companion volume "The Bridge Builder's Guide."
 
Zaden

Zaden

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I would also second the DeHoyos Annotated Edition. I am currently reading it for the Master Craftsman Program and the notes are quite helpful. It also explicitly points out the places where Pike is quoting someone else and states from where (a huge bulk, if not most of the book, is quotations not original to Pike).
 
Warrior1256

Warrior1256

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Zaden said:
I would also second the DeHoyos Annotated Edition. I am currently reading it for the Master Craftsman Program and the notes are quite helpful. It also explicitly points out the places where Pike is quoting someone else and states from where (a huge bulk, if not most of the book, is quotations not original to Pike).
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Sounds great, will check around for it.
 
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GKA

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It was one of the first books I read after being raised, there is not a lot in there that's useful, not because of any fault of Pike's, but rather because to get the gist of his analogies you need to be intimately familiar with the other systems he is comparing Masonry to, that requires a Ph.D., well almost.
 
Warrior1256

Warrior1256

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GKA said:
It was one of the first books I read after being raised, there is not a lot in there that's useful, not because of any fault of Pike's, but rather because to get the gist of his analogies you need to be intimately familiar with the other systems he is comparing Masonry to, that requires a Ph.D., well almost.
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I know what you mean. I am spending as much time Googling as reading.
 
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GKA

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In many ways it is a shame that the colloquial language is so alien to most of us today, there must be a lot of good info in pikes work, I just can't get at it. :)
 
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