Find your Symbol of Freemasonry
Dąbrowski has an unidentified “American Masonic Symbols”, see below. The chart is titled: “Masonic Chart of the Scottish Rite”, so I suppose the symbols refer to degrees in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. There are quite a few symbols on it that are unfamiliar to me, such as this one. I don’t even know what it is supposed to be, some village, town or city?
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “American Masonic Symbols”, see below. There are quite a few symbols on it that are unfamiliar to me, such as this one. I don’t know in what rite or degree this combination is of significance.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
This chart has a Temple of Honor and a Temple of Temperance. Both are referred to with the five pillars.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
This chart has a Temple of Honor and a Temple of Temperance. Both are referred to with the five pillars.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
Five pillars can be seen every now and then. In the USA they are (sometimes) part of the 2nd “craft” degree. It also appears in the 12th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite sometimes. I suppose they refer to the orders of architecture.
In the image above, the pillars have the letters T, L, P and F. In this case it appears to be one of the temples portrayed on this chart (of a reference to the other two). In this case the Temple of Honor and Temperance.
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Dąbrowski has an unidentified “Masonic Symbols”, see below. The image itself says: “Templar Chart” so I suppose these are symbols from Templar degrees.
On two place there are quite specific and somewhat similar drawings. Three phases in the building of round (Templar) towers?
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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 Arch can be frequently found in Freemasonry in different forms and contexts. With a keystone you can find it in the Royal Arch, the Royal Arch degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, York and other rites and in the Mark degree. Without a capstone it appears in other degrees.
Several meanings can be given to the arch. A connection, a door, sometimes the significance lays in a detail (such as the capstone).
Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor (1866) by Malcolm C. Duncan
In a way the basis of Masonic symbolism. This image comes from a “Harodim” tracing board.
Usually, but not always, the two pillars refer to the two pillars standing in front of King Solomon’s Temple as mentioned in the Bible.
cut-out from unknown symbol chart
Tower of Babel as can be seen on the second degree “adoption” tracing board.
Interestingly, the image can also be found on an image (of a tracing board) of the oldest known ‘high degree’ ritual from 1747. See here.
I also have a contemporary French 21st degree AASR tracing board with the tower on it.
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Because often this isn’t actually a chamber, but the gate leading towards it, “gate” is a description for the same symbol. It is a third degree symbol, but it also appears on some Fellowcraft tracing boards and it features in some additional degrees.
According to Voss, it is a reference to the Divine presence, but more basically it is the part of King Solomon’s Temple where the Fellowcrafts receive their wages.
Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike, (1871)