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Albert Pike perhaps said it best when he wrote, "Everywhere the sacred body of Nature was covered with the veil of allegory, which concealed it from the profane, and allowed it to be seen only by the sage who thought it worthy to be the object of his study and investigation. She showed herself to those only who loved her in spirit and in truth, and she abandoned the indifferent and careless to error and to ignorance." Masonic allegorical lessonry can best be defined as symbolic Masonic themes incorporated into our daily lives, our surroundings and even our culture. You see, a great many Masons founded the United States of America. With that said, Masonic inspirations and influences abound. Each time a man is schooled in the lessons of the Craft, he often uses these lessons and even incorporates them throughout his life's work. Whether the man is an ordinary one or a well-known one, the lessons learned by each man can never be truly taken from him. This brings up the point of this book, as Albert Pike wrote, "They are to us but parables and allegories, involving and enveloping Masonic instruction." These Masonic allegorical themes are in art, literature, books, architecture, movies, on television, on our money, in law and even in our different levels of government. Literally, they are almost everywhere. This, of course, has led to a great many conspiracies, many of which are unworkable and are thus impossible. As the informed Mason quickly learns, the Craft is nothing more than an ancient form of education. It literally teaches a man how to think and act. The benefit a man receives is in his Masonic education, not from what he will get from another Mason. The truth is we do as Masons communicate with each other and have attempted, although individually, to influence our culture from the moral and intellectual lessons learned within the Craft. We communicate and leave our mark culturally; just as other people communicate and leave their mark culturally. Therefore, Tales from a Masonic Storyteller is a book that includes allegorical stories, in speech form, about the Three Little Pigs, Jesus the Craftsman, Pledge of Allegiance, Star Spangled Banner, Mahatma Gandhi on God, Benjamin Franklin on Masonic Secrecy and more.… (més)
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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. ( )
Albert Pike perhaps said it best when he wrote, "Everywhere the sacred body of Nature was covered with the veil of allegory, which concealed it from the profane, and allowed it to be seen only by the sage who thought it worthy to be the object of his study and investigation. She showed herself to those only who loved her in spirit and in truth, and she abandoned the indifferent and careless to error and to ignorance." Masonic allegorical lessonry can best be defined as symbolic Masonic themes incorporated into our daily lives, our surroundings and even our culture. You see, a great many Masons founded the United States of America. With that said, Masonic inspirations and influences abound. Each time a man is schooled in the lessons of the Craft, he often uses these lessons and even incorporates them throughout his life's work. Whether the man is an ordinary one or a well-known one, the lessons learned by each man can never be truly taken from him. This brings up the point of this book, as Albert Pike wrote, "They are to us but parables and allegories, involving and enveloping Masonic instruction." These Masonic allegorical themes are in art, literature, books, architecture, movies, on television, on our money, in law and even in our different levels of government. Literally, they are almost everywhere. This, of course, has led to a great many conspiracies, many of which are unworkable and are thus impossible. As the informed Mason quickly learns, the Craft is nothing more than an ancient form of education. It literally teaches a man how to think and act. The benefit a man receives is in his Masonic education, not from what he will get from another Mason. The truth is we do as Masons communicate with each other and have attempted, although individually, to influence our culture from the moral and intellectual lessons learned within the Craft. We communicate and leave our mark culturally; just as other people communicate and leave their mark culturally. Therefore, Tales from a Masonic Storyteller is a book that includes allegorical stories, in speech form, about the Three Little Pigs, Jesus the Craftsman, Pledge of Allegiance, Star Spangled Banner, Mahatma Gandhi on God, Benjamin Franklin on Masonic Secrecy and more.
minfo | Jul 9, 2014 | 
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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. (