Q. What is the meaning of the man in the gate with a lamb on his shoulders?
A. It means that we must watch over our needs like a shepherd over his sheep.
Thus says the Baylot collection of degrees in the degree of “Knight of the Eagle and the Sun or the Disentangled Chaos”. Not the most notable element of the image and not equally clear in every variety of the tracing board for the degree of “Chevalier du Soleil” (‘Knight of the Sun’), but mentioned early in the catechism.
Item image is from: Musée de la Franc-maçonnerie, Num. Inv. D2. SN01
Top row: Collection complète des tous les grades connus dans l’Art Royal de la Francmaçonerie (1773) – Fonds Maçonnique FM4 (76) – Collection de 84 tableaux (1784) Kloss collection Kl.MS:XXV.1
Bottom row: Fonds Gaborria Ms.-401 – Musée de la Franc-maçonnerie, Num. Inv. D2. SN01 – Hessisches Staatsarchiv, HStAD, D 4, 585/7