There has been only one line in all of the pages of Albert Pike’s Morals and Dogma, used and cited numerously to accuse him of praising Lucifer or Evil in his book, and propagating “Luciferianism.” This is often used in Christian polemics against Esoteric philosophy and traditions. The purpose of this article is to dispose or eliminate the root of religious conspiracies that inspire hysteria, ignorance and superstition. The false claim about the line in Morals and Dogma, which are the beliefs of Albert Pike is simple to disrupt and untangle by providing the full paragraph and context of the passage misused and abused by Anti-Mason conspiracists: “LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning!”
Albert Pike (1809-1891). Episcopalian-Freemason of the Scottish Rite Order.
In Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Episcopalian-Freemason of the Scottish Rite, Albert Pike writes exaggeratedly and ponderously in question, “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 its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, for traditions are full of sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!” (Pike, Morals and Dogma, p. 321, see Ch. XIX: Grand Pontiff). In this same passage, Albert Pike disproves his slanderers when he writes, that the Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation is the apotheosis (i.e., the exaltation or glorification) of that sublime faith that aspires to “God alone,” and “despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer.” Pike’s belief in the sublimity of a Faith, which aspires Godward and despises sensual depravity, human selfishness and egotism identifies his Christian Platonism. Pike’s intellectual and spiritual identity combined classical philosophy with Christian affiliation.
That line has been the quote misused for decades to support a conspiracy against Pike and insinuate that the esotericism and purpose of Freemasonry is rooted in a supernatural evil. To this I say: When a supposed Christian is constantly peddling slander, conspiracy and falsehood, I have to call you by the names that you are. Lying to many people whose perspective and spiritual knowledge could have been otherwise enhanced by your time-wasting is devilish. Surely, the vice is ignorance, and so we must ask the accuser who inspires them to lie, or to pretend to lack basic reading comprehension.
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