What is this forum's opinion on Albert G Mackey?
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Topic: What is this forum's opinion on Albert G Mackey?
Posted By: Caution1010
Subject: What is this forum's opinion on Albert G Mackey?
Date Posted: September/20/2014 at 9:56am
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*open-ended question* ------------- I: 10/1/10 P: 12/3/10 R: 12/31/10 PHA-AL "You can't trust those fellow-crafts...buncha rogues and murderers!" |
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Posted By: canuck
Date Posted: September/21/2014 at 3:09pm
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In my opinion, he focuses too much on everything else, except the craft itself... ------------- http://www.victorialodge.ca" rel="nofollow - www.victorialodge.ca |
Posted By: NobleShabba
Date Posted: September/24/2014 at 3:35pm
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huh? ------------- ---------------------- DISCLAIMER: These are my comments, and mine alone - they do not necessarily apply to any group to which I belong! |
Posted By: canuck
Date Posted: September/24/2014 at 4:46pm
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Oh my - I just realized the error I made... for some reason, I thought the topic is on Manly P. Hall... I don't like his writings as they are too speculative. My apologies! ------------- http://www.victorialodge.ca" rel="nofollow - www.victorialodge.ca |
Posted By: NobleShabba
Date Posted: September/26/2014 at 11:22am
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no worries ------------- ---------------------- DISCLAIMER: These are my comments, and mine alone - they do not necessarily apply to any group to which I belong! |
Posted By: Mike Martin
Date Posted: September/27/2014 at 6:40am
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Being in England nearly 100% of Freemasons here have never heard of him. However, the arrival of the Internet and the loonies that inhabit has introduced some of us to him. Sadly most people on both sides of the Masonic equation do not appear to have actually properly read his books, especially Morals and Dogma which I bought from the US to find out what all the fuss was about. ------------- Mike Martin http://www.merseylodge5434.org" rel="nofollow - Click for Mersey Lodge UGLE http://www.masonic-forum.com" rel="nofollow - Click for My UK Freemasonry Forum |
Posted By: Adept?
Date Posted: September/27/2014 at 8:12am
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Uhhh... Morals and Dogma is an Albert Pike book. ------------- "It is humanity that creates god, and men think that god has made them in his image, because they make him in theirs." |
Posted By: Mike Martin
Date Posted: September/29/2014 at 7:03am
   Abert Mackey was a bit better than Albert Pike but again someone pretty much unknown this side of the Atlantic. I have bought and read some of his books also and like the fact that he tried to encourage the Brethren to read more about Freemasonry. I liked his work generally (particularly - the History of Freemasonry: its Legendary Origins and his Encyclopaedia) but lost sympathy when I realised that the list of 25 "landmarks" that I hear about sometimes from US brethren were actually compiled by him. Here every Freemason knows that no one Freemason can speak for Freemasonry and even a Grand Master may only speak for his own Grand Lodge while he is at its head but this man laid down his own version of the Landmarks of Freemasonry which I find a bit presumptuous of him. ------------- Mike Martin http://www.merseylodge5434.org" rel="nofollow - Click for Mersey Lodge UGLE http://www.masonic-forum.com" rel="nofollow - Click for My UK Freemasonry Forum |
Adept? wrote:Posted By: coach
Date Posted: September/30/2014 at 6:42pm
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Did he lay them down or merely compile and report them as they had been circulating? ------------- Building Builders - Masonic Education! http://www.coach.net/BuildingBuilders.htm" rel="nofollow - Books I Wrote | http://www.facebook.com/johns.nagy" rel="nofollow - My FB Wall |
Posted By: Ozzie
Date Posted: September/30/2014 at 7:15pm
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I rather like Albert Mackey. He solved a problem that had puzzled me for 20 years: Why is Masonry veiled in allegory? As a system of morality, surely it should be taught as plainly as possible so that all the brethren can practice that morality. Is there something about the peculiar system of morality that is so peculiar that Masonry dare not say it plainly? Mackey solved the problem. He knows the saying as: Masonry is a science of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. And the key benefit of a science is being able to produce large results from small efforts. Thus a practitioner of moral science ought to be able easily to change the moral structure of those around - for good or evil. No wonder the system/science is veiled in allegory. Now we have a quite different meaning to the proposition that the working tools can be used in a moral sense. |