Manly P. Hall establishes a background about Albert Pike in this seminar. I strongly argue, that despite shortcomings, as possessed by many of his time, the history of Pike’s life is very important here to our history and is a lesson for us. It establishes Pike and his legacy as an exemplar of cross-cultural wisdom and genuine intrigue desperately needed in this phase of American Civilizations, which may be coming to an end. The same interests in knowledge Pike exhibited were as equally taken up and shared by Helena P. Blavatsky, which some Freemasons recognized through her efforts and philosophy. This is a continuation from The Complex Legacy of Albert Pike: Public Opinions, Racism and his ideal of Republicanism.
It was with his early contact with the Indians, that he came to have certain understanding and appreciation for their values, and these were to form an important part of his later career.
Manly P. Hall on Albert Pike
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General Pike was deeply versed in the philosophy of Vedanta. …With all his studies in the mysticism of the Orient, he ever-maintained his equal mental poise, his fine analytic and discriminating power. All that he wrote was tempered with philosophic insights. He fully appreciated the spiritual profundities of the Vedas and Zend Avesta; and sought to link the Oriental with the Occident. He was indeed the Emperor of the East and West, whose true symbol was the double-headed eagle.
Freemason Henry Ridgeley Evans, author of Egyptian Mysteries and Modern Freemasonry (1903).
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