-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 1/12/02 2:39:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>a man named Albert >Pike from the south, not just any man, but founder of the 33rd >degree, The Supreme Council of the 33rd degree for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, S. J., USA(Mother Council of the World) was opened 5/31/1801 in Charleston SC. Albert Pike was made a 33rd 4/25/1857. Pike did later on become the Sovereign Grand Inspector General, S. J. and revised and published the rituals, but he was in no way the founder of the 33rd degree. Om K Also, he was born in Boston and raised in Newbury, MA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature, (New York: C. Scribner, 1856): ALBERT PIKE. Albert Pike was born at Boston on the 29th of December, 1809. When he was four years old his family removed to Newburyport, where his boyhood was passed, until his matriculation at Harvard in his sixteenth year. Not having the requisite means of support he soon left college, and became an assistant teacher and afterwards principal of the Newburyport Academy. After a few years passed in teaching in this and other towns, during which he continued his classical studies in private, he started in the spring of 1831 for the West. Arriving at St. Louis, having travelled over much of the intervening distance on foot, he joined a band of forty in an expedition to Santa Fe. He arrived at that place on the 25th of the following November, and passed about a year as a clerk in a store, and in travelling about with merchandise in the country. In September, 1832, he left Taos with a company of trappers, visited the head-waters of the Red river and the Brazos, and with four others, separating from the main party, directed his course to Arkansas, and arrived at Fort Smith in November, well nigh naked and penniless. He passed the winter in teaching near the fort, and after attempting to establish a school at a place in the settlements, which was broken up in consequence of his falling ill of a fever, accepting the invitation of the editor of the Arkansas Advocate, at Little Rock, who had been greatly pleased by some poet cal communications he had furnished to the paper, became his partner. In 1834 he succeeded to the entire proprietorship of the journal. In 1836 he sold out his newspaper property and commenced the practice of the law, having studied and been admitted to the profession during his editorial career. He also published at Boston a volume containing an account in prose of his adventurous journeyings, and a number of poems suggested by the noble scenery through which he had passed. He has since published Hymns to the Gods, written in his earlier days of school-keeping. A number of other poems by him have also appeared in several periodicals. Mr. Pike served with distinction as a volunteer in the Mexican war. He occupies a prominent position as a public man in the Southwest. He published in 1854, Nugœ, by Albert Pike, printed for private distribution, a collection of his poems, including the Hymns to the Gods. Om K <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
