Albert Pike
From Kook Science
| Albert Pike | |
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 Photo portrait of Pike, seated, in Masonic regalia (Brady-Handy Collection, c. 1865-1880) | |
| Born | Albert Pike 29 December 1809 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | 2 April 1891 (81) Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina |
Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 - April 2, 1891) was an American author and jurist prominently linked with Freemasonry in the United States, having served over thirty years as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite in the Southern Jurisdiction (1859-1891), the chief administrative body in the majority of U.S. states of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. During the American Civil War, Pike had been a Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army and Confederate Commissioner to the Indian Nations, most notable in that role for having negotiated a treaty with the Cherokee to support the South.
Selected Bibliography
- Pike, Albert (1871), Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry: Prepared for the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree, for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, and Published by Its Authority, Charleston: The Author, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008975128
- Pike, Albert (1872), Hymns to the Gods: and Other Poems, Privately printed, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100219505
- Pike, Albert (1872), Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship as Contained in the Rig-Veda, https://archive.org/details/Indo-aryanDeitiesAndWorship-AsContainedInTheRigVeda
- Pike, Albert (1874), Book of the Words, https://archive.org/details/AlbertPikeTheBookOfTheWordsRaw
- Pike, Albert (1887), The Symbolism of the Blue Degrees of Freemasonry