tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376156105181398040.post8890959492215128886..comments2023-05-30T05:29:28.145-04:00Comments on Corn, Wine and Oil: Great William Preston Quote from 1772Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376156105181398040.post-51665337248063812972012-04-26T12:08:07.362-04:002012-04-26T12:08:07.362-04:00Perhaps it was because Albert Pike was in support ...Perhaps it was because Albert Pike was in support of the multiple degree system that had evolved that he penned these words. Note that the issue remains alive and unresolved. The recent publication "Observing the Craft" by Andrew Hammer argues for the re-focus of Freemasonry onto the first three degrees and the Craft Lodge.Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564257591025073269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8376156105181398040.post-7367687832643752822011-10-18T16:45:16.736-04:002011-10-18T16:45:16.736-04:00Compare Preston's words to those of Albert Pik...Compare Preston's words to those of Albert Pike. In the lecture of the 4th Degree (Secret Master) in Magnum Opus (1857):<br /><br />"If you have been disappointed in the first three degrees; if it has seemed to you that the performance has not come up to the promise, and that the common-places which are uttered in them with such an air, the lessons in science and the arts, merely 47th Problem of Euclidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13764497527575454299noreply@blogger.com