General
Albert Pike returns to Washington D.C.
by Not Sure
August 10, 2025
Fiction may not be fact, but it is often
true.
On Tuesday, August 5 of this year, President Donald Trump
announced that he plans to return a bronze statue of Albert Pike to its home in
Judiciary Square. Originally erected in
1901, it was toppled and set afire in 2020 by Black Lives Matter protestors. Pike’s legacy was put in the line of fire in
part because he joined with slave owning Native Americans to defend slavery
during the American Civil War. Albert
Pike was an important figure in Freemasonry, and his Morals and Dogma
was the Freemasonic bible, given to new members of the Southern Jurisdiction of
the Scottish Rite until the mid-1970s.
One of Pike’s biggest influences was Éliphas
Lévi, who was considered a scholar of pagan mysteries and Gnosticism. Occult scholar A.E. Waite (The Doctrine
and Literature of the Kabalah) wrote of Lévi, “I
do not think that he ever made an independent statement upon any historical
fact to which the least confidence could be given with prudence.” French philosopher René Guénon went so far as
to write that considerable chunks of Morals and Dogma were plagiarized
from Lévi’s writing. Pike’s influence upon
Freemasonry has been eclipsed by the work of his contemporary, Albert
Mackey. There must be something about
the given name Albert.
Regarding the infamous letter from Albert Pike to Giuseppe
Mazzini dated August 15, 1871, within which Pike outlines “The Illuminati Plan
for 3 World Wars”, which has been referenced by Alan Watt (‘we shall unleash
the Nihilists and atheists’) and many others: it is said to be a hoax. In the last century, the existence of this
letter was popularized by Canadian naval officer and ‘conspiracy theorist’
William Guy Carr in his book, Pawns in the Game (1958). There is now convincing proof that this
letter was part of a hoax concocted by Léo Taxil and
repeated as fact by Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile, in his 1920 book
The Cause of World Unrest. Carr’s
main arguments about Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and conspiracies for a New
World Order were repeated by Dan Brown in his best-selling novel Angels
& Demons from 2000, which was turned into a box-office hit film in
2009. Our appetite for mysteries and
thrillers is bottomless.
One version of the story claims that for a short time the
letter was on display in the British Museum Library in London, and it was
copied by William Guy Carr. Another
version states that Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez of Santiago, Chile saw the
letter at the British Museum Library, and Carr took Rodriguez at his word. In Carr's book, Satan, Prince of this
World, he includes the following footnote:
“The
Keeper of Manuscripts recently informed the author that this letter is NOT
catalogued in the British Museum Library. It seems strange that a man of
Cardinal Rodriguez's knowledge should have said that it WAS in 1925.”
What
is interesting to me is how much of “Albert Pike’s Letter to Mazzini” remains
true. I will include a link, and you can
determine for yourself what is fiction and not fact,
and what is true.
I thank
a reader of the CTTM Substack for the following comment: In that letter to Mazzini, Pike mentions
that by the end of the 3rd World War (the current one between Zion and Islam)
the masses were to be made absolutely EXHAUSTED,
before they fully surrendered to the “pure doctrine” (Total Control). The commenter also included some thoughts
about “troofers” as the blind leading the blind.
Here
is the referenced paragraph in Pike’s [now debunked?] letter:
“The
Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused
by the “Agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the
leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam
(the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually
destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this
issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral,
spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and
the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in
all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism,
origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the
citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of
revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the
multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from
that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but
without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light
through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought
finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the
general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity
and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”
The
letter itself may be a hoax within a hoax, neither authentic, nor consistent
with the facts, yet is it not true?
Albert
Pike wrote, “The blue degrees (the first three) are no more than the outer door
of the Temple portal. (The work of Masonry is the construction of a spiritual
Temple.) In Alan Watt’s Cutting Through,
volume 1, he wrote, “The rebuilding of Sol-Om-On’s temple esoterically
(at the high level) means the PHYSICAL REBUILDING of MAN. Lower initiates believe it means spiritual
and societal perfection.”
For
more thoughts on information overload, purveyors of disinformation and spin, Artificial
Intelligence, and brain chips, please refer to Alan Watt - Redux 223 "Simians,
Servitude to Slavery" - Aug. 10, 2025.
© Not Sure
Additional reading:
Albert
Pike's 1871 Plan for the Three World Wars
http://www.itsuandi.org/itsui/downloads/Itsui_Materials/Albert_Pike's_Plan_for_Three_World_Wars.pdf