So perhaps we can consider that Freemasonry or Masonry of the 1700s isn't necessarily the same thing as it is today. Anderson's Constitution and Morals & Dogma are perhaps two different books with totally different slants. However, what is missive is that, though the article which is from an evidently Roman Catholic publication tends to evidence distaste for Albert Pike, a symbol or drawing of a double-headed eagle reminiscent of the "Holy Roman Empire" of that for the "Byzantine Empire" and also of the "Seljuk Turks" appears on the cover of Morals and Dogma.
it is most interesting to note that slavery was always 'kosher' in the Roman Empire and that Jefferson Davis appealed to the Roman Pope for help and addressed Rome's Pope Pius IX as "Very Venerable Sovereign Pontiff".
A Roman Catholic publication in 1915 runs an article whose author may have sincerely put the Albert Pike flavor of Freemasonry down as anti-Catholic and anti-religion but yet Albert Pike (an attorney) was an officer in the Confederate Army was involved in compiling Morals & Dogma (published ~ 1872?) --a book which has a cover featuring a symbol reminiscent of the Holy Roman Empire? He is known to have at least some contact with Jefferson Davis. Not to mention...
Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as "the chief judicial officer" of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.[6] He was cited as the leader of the Arkansas Ku Klux Klan.[7] However this has been a controversial subject with Masonic authors saying that it "is impossible to either substantiate or disprove" involvement in the Klan.[8]Perplexing, no? Read the attachments? Head spinning yet?Albert Pike Albert Pike was hired by Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, to be the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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