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Description: Description: Robbie starts episode 4 of his ongoing United States Masonic History series with the Mexican-American war and delves into Albert Pike's role in the invasion of Mexico. Freemasonry was still popular but not as public during this time period except for one major architectural undertaking in Washington, DC, the Washington monument, designed by architect Robert Mills in the style of an Egyptian obelisk. Instead of being carved out of a single stone like ancient obelisks were, this obelisk was to be 5x larger, standing at 555 feet tall, the tallest structure in the world made from giant stone blocks, an obelisk of classic masonry. After an infamous duel between Albert Pike and Colonel Roane, Pike then decides to devote the rest of his studies and energy towards Freemasonry. Being deeply attracted to and intrigued by it's secrets, Albert Pike ascends to the 32nd degree of the Scottish Rite in only 3 years and then got the idea that it was his mission to not just re-write the entire 4th-32nd degree rituals but to re-invent Freemasonry itself.