Find your Symbol of Freemasonry
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.
I suppose these symbols together have a significance. The dots remind a bit of the ‘round towers’. The star is one of three.
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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.
At the bottom there are three different three dimensional stars, probably some geometrical reference such as the Platonic solids.
A similar star displayed on a 26th degree Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite tracing board (see here) is simply described as “blazing star“.
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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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Can be found in the lodge (often in the second and third degree), on tracing boards (often between the sun and the moon), but comes in a variety of forms and contexts / meanings. It does not have to be five pointed. The general meaning is ‘something higher’, whatever that is for the Freemason. In specific degrees there can be specific meanings, such as five faculties of man or the star of the Magi.
Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor (1866) by Malcolm C. Duncan
Appear in Masonic symbolism every now and then. It is prominent in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (7, 8, 17, 18th degrees). It is also the emblem of the Chanceler in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
A pair of scales, held by a hand and accompanied by a sword and five stars, is an emblem of the “Council Prince of Jerusalem”.
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Common throughout the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, but also an element on Third Degree aprons in the French “Modern Restored Rite”.
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Rectified Scottish Rite.
general officer jewel