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Fighting Sitting

A somewhat odd French 9th degree “tableau” for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. It appears that we are looking at nine masters who are sent out to look for the body of Hiram. One of them rushes forward (and thus stands up straight) and the other eight remain behind (and are thus sitting). Therefor, this image belongs to an “Elu”/”Elect”/vengeance degree.

18th century painting from Mons, Belgium. They are reproduced online and in print on several places. Facsimiles of the entire collection appear in Dix-Sept Tableaux Symboliques du XVIIIe Siecle (1992) by Maurice-Aurélien Arnould (1914-2001)

Wolf head Dagger

In the fascinating, French publication, supposedly originally from 1765, called Mutus Liber Latomorum we find about 30 beautiful colour plates with often uncommon Masonic symbols. There is a suggestion that they refer to historical (proto Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite?) degrees. The image above comes from a page with what seem to be (officers) jewels, see below.

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Bleeding Dagger

In the fascinating, French publication, supposedly originally from 1765, called Mutus Liber Latomorum we find about 30 beautiful colour plates with often uncommon Masonic symbols. There is a suggestion that they refer to historical (proto Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite?) degrees. The image above is early in the book, so it refers to a low/early degree? Simply the 3rd “craft” degree?

More about the book here.

Mutus Liber Latomorum (1765)

Head with Sword

In the fascinating, French publication, supposedly originally from 1765, called Mutus Liber Latomorum we find about 30 beautiful colour plates with often uncommon Masonic symbols. There is a suggestion that they refer to historical (proto Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite?) degrees. The image above is early in the book, so it refers to a low/early degree?

More about the book here.

Mutus Liber Latomorum (1765)

Armed Ring

Jeremy Croffs in his Templars Chart and Hieroglyphic Monitor (1821) has a “Order of Knights Templar Plan of Encampment”. It it are three banners. The one on the left, has a Templar Cross and a Lamb of God; the one in the middle a Blazing Cross; and then there is the one above. You see a cock sitting on what appears to be a metal ring, with weapons (and a trumpet?) sticking out of it. The odd design has a weird likeness to a symbol that can be found on the Kirkwall Scroll.

Templars Chart and Hieroglyphic Monitor (1821) by Jeremy Croff

Triangular Chains

A triangle made of arrows and depicted on the tracing board for the degree “Chevalier de l’Orient” in the Kloss/von Löwen collection.

In the second volume of the Bonseigneur collection, Prinsen speaks of “the triangular chains”, which appears to refer to the images below the river. Later in the degree of “Chevalier d’Orient et de l’Epée” (‘Knight of the East and of the Sword’) the chains are explained:

Nabuchodonozor entered in triumph into Babylon. All of the captures were fettered, without exception the king, who had golden chains. The form of the chains was triangular with three links of which one fitted the head, the others the wrists. These chains were the more sad in the eyes of the Israelites as their form represented the emblem of the Eternal Whose Holy Name is represented by a delta

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Scimitar

The Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, also known as Shriners, is not Freemasonry, but an aligned order.

emblem of the Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine

Triangle and Crossed Swords

The “Missouri Masonic Family” tree below shows the bewildering number of rites and degrees in America. As a branch to the York Rite (left) there are three degrees that appear to have crossed swords in a triangle without a star as emblem: Super Excellent Master, Secret Master, Royal Master. To the right you see the same image, but within a star which says “Knight Masons” below.

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Fasces

A not too common symbol in a Masonic context, but this 1817 Dutch seal has one. Just as outside a Masonic context, the meaning is might or power.

1817 Netherlands