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I V I L

The Grand Treasurer representing Guibelum, who was the first depositer of the precious Treasure of Masons, decorated with a small key to a narrow white ribbon, to wear to the 5th Button hole of his Jacket, with the letters I. V. I. L. which are the Initials of Inveni verbum in ore Lionis.

Francken Manuscript 13th degree.

Image self created

Sun on Double Square and Triangle

For his “45th Degree: Chevalier du Soleil – Knight of the Sun”, Ravignat presents the same image as above. He says it is a “Jewel of the Knights of the Sun from the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite”. I found the same image on the website of Brick Masons and they say that it is a 28th degree Memphis-Misraim jewel. “Chevalier du Soleil” is indeed the 28th degree of Memphis-Misraim (Ravignat uses a different counting in his reconstructed Traditional Egyptian Freemasonry).

In Ravignat’s translation of the ritual we find the following passage:

Newly made Knight and Sage, it is my pleasure to invest you with the collar of this degree. It shows a Sun, the Glory of God, within a triangle and forming a double square.

Here is not not as much an officier jewel, but a badge of the degree.

Brick Masons

Baton

In the Order of the Eastern Star, the Associate Conductress has one baton in her emblem, the Marshal has crossed batons.

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Crown and Scepter

Emblem of Esther in the Order of the Eastern Star. More about OES here.

Voss, The Universal Language of Freemasonry (2004). The emblems of the Order of the Eastern Star were most likely designed around the inception of the order in the 1870’ies, maybe by the inceptor of the organisation Rob Morris (1818-1888)