Find your Symbol of Freemasonry
Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. On the left of the Bible there is a wand or sword or something. Another image “Masonic Symbols, 1776” there appears to be the same ‘sword with ribbon’, but somewhat clearer. There it seems to be a sword with a ribbon of sorts.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. On the left and right you see two pedestals with men on them holding some sort of tools. The two Saints John perhaps? The one on the left appears to hold a St. Andrew’s cross though.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. I don’t suppose this is to be a UFO, so perhaps a hat with ribbon like the symbol of a Bishop? I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol, but I did encounter it on Mark Master tracing boards, sometimes with nine dots. Perhaps it is just a (Mason’s) mark?
The # (hashtag) can often be found together with a X on Master Mason drawing boards. Thus combined (#X) it can either refer to the pigpen cipher or a way to construct cubic stones.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The best I can make of this symbol is “angel”. I would be surprised if it was a butterfly. Something else altogether maybe? I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. It looks somewhat alchemical. Perhaps it is from the Gold- und Rosenkreuzer or some similar group. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. Even though he doesn’t give his source, this is the “Chevalier du Soleil” (‘Knight of the Sun’) tracing board as depicted in the work Collection complète des tous les grades connus dans l’Art Royal de la Francmaçonerie (1773). It is similar to, but not entirely the same, as other tracing boards of this degree. The example below has many more symbols usually not included, the staff with an eye is one of them. The meaning of this staff I have not yet run into.
For similar tracing boards see here.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. It looks somewhat alchemical. Perhaps it is from the Gold- und Rosenkreuzer or some similar group. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol. Would this be a smith? Any connection to the hammer and anvil on the other side perhaps?
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. It looks somewhat alchemical. Perhaps it is from the Gold- und Rosenkreuzer or some similar group. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol. Perhaps it is a variety to the pointed stone.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. It looks somewhat alchemical. Perhaps it is from the Gold- und Rosenkreuzer or some similar group. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol, but it could be a variety to the hammer and chisel of the first “craft” degree.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. It looks somewhat alchemical. Perhaps it is from the Gold- und Rosenkreuzer or some similar group. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Symbols of American Freemasonry”, see below. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Symbols of American Freemasonry”, see below. I don’t know in which degree this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
It is perhaps interesting to note that here we see a combination of an ear, a heart and the bell. There is a suggestion that ear, heart, mouth refer to the three principle officers. Could we have a variation to that here?
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Symbols of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite”, see below. Judging the text in the triangle, it is from France. In some versions of the AASR there is a shepherd who leads the men of King Solomon to the murderers. Perhaps that is the connection here. This ‘shepherd’ has wings, though, so it is a shepherd? He appears to be accompanied by either a fox or a dog, a snake around what appears to be a broken pillar (or his staff), a dove and he has something in his hand.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Symbols of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite”, see below. Judging the text in the triangle, it is from France. I don’t know in which degree of the AASR this image is featured and if there are other systems or degrees with this symbol.
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The cornucopia is the emblem for the Steward in some lodges.
It also features in (some) Knight Templar rites (on the mitre) and in the “Past Masters Degree”.
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Often the emblem of the Secretary. Sometimes one feather is the emblem of the Secretary.
The feathers, or quils, are sometimes surrounded by crowns. I don’t know the significance there, but they are already on the Kirkwall Scroll.
Top: Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor (1866) by Malcolm C. Duncan
Bottom: Detail of Dąbrowski p. 178 “Masonic Symbols”, early 19th century symbol chart