Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento, author

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 ...

By Louie Blake Saile Sarmiento Master of Arts in Industrial/Organizational Psychology; J uris Doctor Whenever I travel, I always try to visit historic cemeteries. This is because cemeteries are actually living history books when it comes to fraternity affiliations and symbols. Cemeteries are a place where you can observe and witness a number of deceased people still proudly representing their fraternity or fraternities even after their last breath. The “Three Links Chain” combined with the “Square and Compass” are two fraternal symbols that you can find in a number of historic tombstones. This means that the deceased was a member of both the Odd Fellows and the Freemasons. A Freemason-Odd Fellow tombstone at Lone Fir Cemetery in South Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Holding dual membership in these ancient and historic fraternities is quite prevalent and still is common even until today. The first documented person to be a member of both regular Freemasonry and Odd Fellowship w...