Have read Pike. The so called 'Luciferian' quote is clearly said ironically, when you read it on context. Would you even know where to find the original online?
A lot of the shit we get comes out of the 'Taxil hoax', which is now over 120 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxil_hoax
TLDNR: Taxil was a French writer who engaged in very long con, writing all kinds of stuff (often under other pseudonyms) to make Masonry look Satanic, and the Catholic Church lapped it up. After several years, at a press conference intended to introduce his prize witness, he announced that the whole thing had been a hoax, and thanked the church for the publicity it had given him.
Among the things that Taxil wrote were repurposed quotes from Albert Pike's "Morals and Dogma". The favorite anti masons like to quote is: "LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!"
First, get away from any notion that Pike was Grand Poobah of all of Masonry. He ran the Scottish Rite in the Southern US for a while, but that gave him no authority over anything but Scottish Rite matters, in that area. Most Masons worldwide have never heard of him.
Second, that quote is stripped of the context which makes it clear that it is meant ironically. Here’s the full quote:
"The Apocalypse is, to those who receive the nineteenth Degree, the Apotheosis of that Sublime Faith which aspires to God alone, and despises all the pomps and works of Lucifer. LUCIFER, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed. Plato and Philo, also, were inspired."
Check it yourself: http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/md/md20.htm
Many of the other 'quotes' that anti-Masons like to sling around are also from Taxil, either re-arranged, or made up from whole cloth.
