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Earth, Cross, Adonai

Q. What is the meaning of the globe?
A. The world that we inhabit and of which Freemasons are the adornment.
Q. What is the meaning of Adonai?
A. It is the name God gave Adam to pronounce during his prayers and which our father pronounced in a trembling voice.
Q. What is the meaning of the words lux ex tenebris?
A. That the Freemason enlightened by reason easily penetrates the darkness of ignorance and superstition.
Q. What is the meaning of the river on the globe?
A. Which reflects the utility of the passions that man needs in the course of his life, just as water is of use to the earth to make it fertile.
Q. What is the meaning of the by two snakes encircled cross on the globe?
A. It shows that we should not always respect the flat prejudices and be careful not to let the bottom of our hearts know on the subject of religion and not always agree with the foolish and idiotic pundits of religious mysteries.

Baylot collection of degrees in the degree: “Knight of the Eagle and the Sun or the disentangled Chaos”.

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Crossed Arrow

Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a Scottish poet and a ‘legendary’ Freemason. He was initiated at the age of 23 in 1781. A story in itself.

Nowadays, when somebody in Scotland gets the Mark degree, he often gets a pin with the symbol above. It is said to be “Burn’s Mark”. The mark that Burns got when he supposedly got his Mark degree.

Two Serpents and a Cross

There is something odd here. In the Gaborria collection are two Misraim texts. One is said to be a 51th degree ritual, the other one has a bit of a vague description: “Le Chevalier du soleil. Prince Adepte. Grade philosophique composé par le bénédictin Don Pernetti. 28e de l’Ecossisme. 51e de Misraïm. 72e grade de la 8e série du Chap… Métr… de Fr…”. In short, a 28th Scottish degree, a 51th Misraim degree and also a 72nd degree in the Metropolitan Chapter. It is -indeed- the 72nd ‘degree’ in the collection of 81 that was compressed to the seven degrees of the French Rite.

When you look at both tracing boards, it seems that we are not looking at two serpents on a cross (or Caduceus), as the snakes appear to ‘stand up (somewhat) straight’.

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Cross on Circle

The tracing board below comes from the “Fonds Gaborria” which can be found online on the website of the Bibliotheque Numirique Patrimoniale, Ms.-353, a Memphis Misraim ritual for the 51th degree “Chevalier du Alch. Myst.” It contains a cross on a circle and a cross on a circle on a crescent moon, along with some Alchemical symbols.

Also see earth, cross, Adonai

Bibliothèque Numérique Patrimoniale, Fonds Gaborria Ms.-353

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