n this week’s episode, we discuss the 5th Degree - "Perfect Master" from "Morals & Dogma: The Annotated Edition". Transcripts, Chapter Markers and Show Notes for all episodes are available from our website - WayOfTheHermit.com.

It is highly recommended that you read the chapter in order to fully follow our discussion. "Morals and Dogma" is available from these sites:

  • Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma: Annotated Edition (to purchase)
  • Morals and Dogma (free but unannotated online PDF)
  • Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma (Audible audiobook for purchase)

For the remaining degrees, we are supplementing the "Morals and Dogma" material with selections from the Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor & Guide and A Bridge to Light.

Diagrams:

  • Lodge of the Perfect Master (Book of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - 1867)

Overview

  • Introduction (01:14)
  • Morals & Dogma (04:25)
  • Stay Busy (05:09)
  • Where is your mind? (06:55)
  • Level, Plumb and Square (09:16)
  • Contemplating Death (11:24)
  • You Are Going to Die (14:22)
  • A Few Good Men (17:46)
  • Becoming Immortal (18:49)
  • Fear Not a Good Death (21:49)
  • Better Than Yesterday (22:24)

Links:

  • Scottish Rite Ritual Monitor & Guide (Amazon)
  • A Bridge to Light (Amazon)
  • Steve Jobs Speech (YouTube)
  • John Dies at the End (Wikipedia)
  • Revenant (Wikipedia)
  • How to conduct a Masonic Funeral (PhoenixMasonry)
  • Aghori (Wikipedia)