", most authors write long, eloquent, flowing paragraphs, enumerating Freemasonry's many benefits and virtues; its mystic symbolism, its history, its philosophy, its religious spirituality, its universality, and its feelings of brotherhood among men across the world. Much like the reflected mirror i...
The second Masonic degree exposes a Brother to more of the symbolism and philosophy of the Fraternity. For skilled Craftsmen, this degree would have marked a person’s progress from an apprentice to a journeyman. Read about the privileges of the Fellow Craft degree. LEARN MORE 3rd Degree: Ma...
“In Freemasonry, the hand as a symbol holds a high place...The same symbol is found in the most ancient religions and some of their analogies to Masonic symbolism are peculiar."- Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Albert Mackey, Vol. I Mackey revealingly says that the hand is deemed important "...
Preston's focus is on Knowledge; Krause's is on Morals; Oliver focuses on Tradition; Pike focuses on Symbolism. Fichte's focus is on Social Harmony. Pound tells us that the philosophies of each Masonic Writers grew out of the philosophical situation at the time when each of them thought an...
The Golden Arch itself is Masonic.” It also represents the arch of Baal TWO PRESIDENTS – SAME SLOGAN President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985 also took place in the Capitol Rotunda (Belly of Isis) on January 21, 1985, due to cold weather. ...
or menstruum of the earth. The blood or salt corresponds by opposition with the Father, the azotic or mercurial water with the Word or Logos, and the breath or spirit with the Holy Ghost—but the things of transcendental symbolism cannot be properly understood except by the true children of...
There are in our ritual many elements other than symbolism—emblems, types, dramas and allegories, but in so far as it is composed of symbols the same things may be said of each and every one of them that has been said in the above paragraphs about symbols in general. Their one ...
Do you think that which he told you about yourself is true? He went and got the Master Architects! To my Masonic family: He got The Architect not that built Solomon’s Temple, but that built what you see, all of it; and brought us on a westerly course, and hit us in the head ...
Heraldry, the fine art of armorial bearings, such as coats of arms or heraldic badges, dates back at least to the early-mid 12th century. The varieties of coats of arms have greatly expanded, but the symbolism behind their basic elements is rooted in his
to being an exclusively Masonic symbol for God. Franklin D. Roosevelt, president at the time the image was introduced onto the dollar bill, was a Mason – a coincidence leading to a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the currency and the eye on the pyramid. These relate not only to ...