Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
Does the direction that this hands point to say anything?
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Eye
Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
This eye doesn’t look like an all-seeing eye, so it has to have another meaning. Perhaps similar to the ear that you also see a bit to the right.
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Star with Face
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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Staf with Eye
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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Heart and Compasses
Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Symbols of American Freemasonry”, see below. My guess is that this combination of symbols refers to the fact that in some lodges the oath is taken with compasses held to the chest.
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Ear
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. Interesting in this regard is this, a suggestion that the ear to to be connected to the Level and thus to the Senior Warden.
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Flaming Heart
The Blazing, Burning or Flaming Heart can be found in the 11th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (“Sublime Elect of the Twelve”).
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Severed Head
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite has ‘revenge degrees’. Somebody lost his head in the 9th degree (“Elect of the Nine”).
The Book Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite (1884) Charles McClenachan
Hand with Knife
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite has ‘revenge degrees’. The hand with the knife appears in the 9th degree (“Elect of the Nine”).
The Book Of The Ancient And Accepted Scottish Rite (1884) Charles McClenachan
Heart in triangle
Emblem of the Almoner in the French Rectified Scottish Rite.
general officer jewel