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Double Square with Circle, Dot and Moon

As you can see, Ravignat calls this “The Jewel of a Sovereign Prince of the 90th Degree” of Memphis Misraim. Unfortunately he gives no source for the image. In the ritual the image is described as:

a gold four pointed star or double square in the middle of which is a point with a circle. This star is flanked by a crescent Moon.

Also see Moon and Square, Double Square and Dot, Double Square, Circle and Dot.

Ravignat, p. 363

Double Square with Circle and Dot

As you can see, Ravignat calls this “The Jewel of a Sovereign Prince of the 89th” degree of Memphis Misraim. Unfortunately he gives no source for the image. In the ritual the image is described as:

a gold four pointed star or square on which is superimposed another square in the midle of which is a point within a circle

Also see Double Square with Dot and Double Square with Circle, Dot and Moon.

Ravignat, p. 344

Double Square with Dot

As you can see, Ravignat calls this “The Jewel of a Sovereign Prince of the 88th Degree” of Memphis Misraim. Unfortunately he gives no source for the image. In the ritual the image is described as:

a gold four pointed star or square on which is superimposed another square in the middle of which is a point

Also see Double Square with Circle and Dot and Double Square with Circle, Dot and Moon.

Ravignat p. 327

Burning Star of David

This is the backside of the jewel for the degree: “Le Grand Commandeur de l’Aigle noir R C 2e grade”. Ravignat calls this the “65th Degree: Knight of the Black Eagle Rose-Croix – Third Grade – Tschoudy and Bédarride”.

Bibliothèque Numérique Patrimoniale, Fonds Gaborria Ms.-417

Seven Stars

Tracing board of the 47th degree (“Knight of the Seven Stars”) of (some of the variations of) Memphis Misraim.

Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraim in Freemasonry Aprons and Tracing Boards – Murat Ozgen Ayfer (2019)

Inverted Pentagram

The inverted pentagram is often food for conspiracy nuts, but what you see above is simply the logo of the Order of the Eastern Star (and the plan of their “chapter room”, see below), an appendent body for Freemasons and their female relatives. They have a different ritual and symbolism from Freemasonry. There exist a whole range of variations to this pentagram in the OES. In this basic form, the symbols refer to the positions and symbols of the officers. The jewels of the officers have their own specific emblem in the middle.

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Hebrew

There is a lot of crudely written Hebrew in Freemasonry. Not only words are garbled, but the copies from copies, often from handwritten copies, by people who don’t know Hebrew, makes that on many places you see letters that hardly resemble Hebrew. What also doesn’t help is that there are variations in ritual texts. The image above is from the “ineffable” degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Some Hebrew are recognisable, others less so. From some texts that use this image, you can know what Hebrew letters are meant. The same emblem in another AASR system has Latin characters that do not correspond to the Hebrew above.

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Star of David

Just as with the pentagram the star of David (or Solomon’s seal) appears in Masonic symbolism in a variety of contexts and the meaning is dependent on that context. This particular example is a blazing star it appears on a German tracing board between the sun and the moon.

detail from Feddersen (Die Arbeitstafel in der Freimaurerei Band I (1982) D/45, P. 379) ca 1900

Pentagram

The pentagram is a very common symbol in Freemasonry and appears in different degrees and rites. It is mostly common in the 2nd “craft” degree where is has the rough meaning of “man” with his five faculties. It can also be a blazing star, but in this example, it obviously is the sun. Sometime stars are drawn as five pointed stars. You also see them inverted. The meaning depends on the context.

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