Hank Kraychir

Update: Since writing this review on Amazon, the author (who still hides his ostensible Masonic membership) has started 'plugging' the book with phony reviews by 'sock puppets'. Readers should beware of such underhanded tactics and might consider them when deciding to buy this book or not. Original review follows:

Thumbing through this book on its arrival, I was pleased to see a VERY exhaustive compilation of footnotes comprising 76 pages of this 176 page book. Upon looking closer, 95% of them appeared to be taken from an online copy of Pike's Morals & Dogma. Then it was on to the Foreward by the well-known "Anon" who, curiously, used particularly bad punctuation - identical to that found throughout this work.

Proceeding ahead, sentence structure became dense (if not completely obtuse) due to the author's lack of proper usage of the comma and the semi-colon. But it went progressively downhill. When 3/4ths of each page consisted of quotations from Pike and the few author-written sentences were practically impossible to understand, I'd thought that structure might be the worst of the book's problems. I was wrong.

On page XVI of the Preface, the author boldly asserts that Jefferson and John Adams were Masons. They weren't. Period! It seems as if the ONLY website the author consulted was the one he used for Pike's quotes. The rest he was making up as he went along. Later he cites Walt Disney as a Mason and uses as his citation which says that he was a member of DeMolay! (Walt Disney was not a Mason either!)

The author also claims that Pike "...is one of this country's most prominent Freemasons...." Perhaps on the internet but not amongst Masons, particularly those north of the Mason-Dixon line!

This self-claimed Mason from an undisclosed lodge in an undisclosed jurisdiction has written a work which is an embarrassment of errors, misstatements of fact, punctuation gaffes and is, in the final analysis, simply a regurgitation of Pike's philosophy. He claims to have three Masters Degrees, one in education. How anyone could write like this in not one but three theses and have them approved for receiving an advanced degree is truly amazing to me.… (més)