ALBERT PIKE, AS AN ODD FELLOW AND FREEMASON
By Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento Author; Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; Juris Doctor Brother Albert Pike (December 29, 1809 – April 2, 1891) was a prominent American lawyer, philanthropist, soldier, poet, philosopher and writer. He is one of the many notable and controversial men in fraternal history who held high-ranking positions in both Odd Fellowship and Anglo-American or Regular Freemasonry. Brother Albert Pike was a Past Grand Master in Odd Fellowship and a Past Sovereign Grand Commander in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. He is more popularly and controversially known as a Freemason who single-handedly revised the Rituals of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (A.A.S.R.) from 1855 to 1884 and for publishing the book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 1871. He is asserted within the A.A.S.R. Southern Jurisdiction as the person most responsible for the growth and success of the Scottish Rite from ...