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Compass & Square

Perhaps the best-known of all Masonic symbols are the compass and square, shown interlocked with the letter "G" between them, as the traditional emblems of Freemasonry. During the granting of the First, Second and Third Degrees, the compass and square are placed upon the altar of the Temple in an interlinked fashion, representing the divine Light as it unites with the candidate and fills him with increasing knowledge. At the same time, this leads to his "rebirth" as its resurrected "offspring".

That this symbolic rite was derived from a still older mystery, however, is suggested by an early Masonic catechism, which asks,

What did the 2 cherubim on the ark of the covenant represent?

The answer which it gives is: "The mystery of the Golden Altar" (Dumfries Ms., ca. 1799).

Thus, the union of "the two Cherubim" in the Jerusalem Temple would appear to be the ultimate source of the "mystery of the Golden Altar" in the Masonic Temple.



The letter "G" (signifying God's secret Name) appears between the intertwining compass and square and is paralleled by Philo's explanation that the union of the statues in the Jewish Temple represented God's "consorting" with the soul, and his "divinizing" of the recipient. Thus the compass and square are exact symbolic equivalents of the ancient Cherubim, i.e. the ancient "Male" and "Female," whose union was the central feature of the Wisdom mystery, and which brought about the candidate's deification. But we should also compare this unique symbolism with the Divine Image itself (Gen. 1:27), which teaches that God is male and female united; hence the sacred "G" appears only when the male compass and the female square are intertwined.

The association of these "male" and "female" symbols with solar and lunar iconography was also based on early Israelite and Semitic tradition, according to which the heavenly bodies represented various male and female deities. Their symbols were in fact still used by European alchemists to describe the union of "heaven" and "earth," taking the "Sun" as a figure of Christ, and the "Moon" as a figure of his Bride, the Church. These must again unite in order to "beget" the "Philosopher's Stone," i.e. eternal life.

Above, the celestial things, below, the terrestrial; by the male and the female the work is accomplished. Join the male and the female and you will find what you are seeking (Aphorisms of Zosimus)

But before they can complete this all-important work, both must die and pass through the "nigredo" state, i.e. the death and dissolution of the body. Zosimus appropriately characterized this stage of the mystery with the image of the "priest" who is torn to pieces and mutilated before he can be resurrected and discover the "Stone of the Nile."



Other alchemists described the marriage of the "sun-compass" and the "moon-square" as the bringing together of superius/inferius and externis/interius, which exactly mirrors the language of the ancient Gospel of Thomas ("You shall enter the Kingdom when the upper is as the lower and the outside is as the inside.") Both "Male" and "Female" will then be resurrected as the "gold" of eternal life, forever joined as a divine zakar wanekebah, or "Rebis" ("Two-in-One"). The "Sun" and the "Moon" are further referred to as the "King" and "Queen," just as the Jews referred to God and his exiled Shekhinah in the Kabbalistic mystery.

The ultimate origin of the compass and square as divine emblems is presently lost in the mists of antiquity, but their universal employment as builders' tools caused them to appear nearly everywhere as theological symbols for denoting creative power. In Greek iconography, for example, the nature of the gods Pluto, Bacchus and Mars was represented by the triangle (a three-sided, enclosed compass), and that of the goddesses Rhea, Venus, Ceres, Vesta and Juno by the square. In Egypt, the "amulets" of Osiris included two plumb lines, suspended from two compasses, as well as two squares. In pre-Christian China, one also found the Demiurge, Fu Hsih, and his female counterpart, Nü Kua, displaying the compass and square as symbols of their male and female creative powers. Even earlier, the I Ching (ca. 720-474 B.C.) had described the heavens as round (just as the compass delineates the horizon), and the earth as square (with its "four corners").

But these symbols were also employed by the Israelite Creator, who declares in the Old Testament, "I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people, Israel" (Amos 7:8). . . "Judgment will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet" (Isa. 28:17). . ."And thou shalt make an altar...(that) shall be foursquare" (Ex. 27:1). . . "When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth." (Prov. 8:27) . . . "He has described a circle upon the face of the waters" (Job 26:10)

These references show that the ubiquitous builder's tools were also traditionally associated with his divine power and work. There was a legend that the veil before God's Throne in the Heavenly Holy of Holies was covered with the archetypal forms from which Creation would proceed. These forms undoubtedly included the basic round and straight shapes of nature, which the compass and square were used to mark out. It is therefore no surprise to find that medieval cathedral builders frequently depicted Christ with the plumb line, compass and square in his hands, as, for example, in the Cathedral of Santa Croce in Florence, where Jesus stands above the main portal holding the worker's square as a sign of his divine creative power.

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Welcome..

This ^^^

This is exactly what I was wanting to convey on another thread when asked what my view of G-d was. He/it is FAR greater than any diety described by any religion or "sacred" text.

maybe not...

as seems to be your case, there's this tendency in believers to appeal to their incomprehension about the workings or the possibility of something happening as a justification of God, and that's just wayy to easy to do you know

I thought you'd be more to the point than that brief... :P

I have thought of this often...

Yes, but before microscopes and telescopes, it was religion and sacred texts that kept this knowledge intact.

Secret societies and many religions have taught this for thousands of years.

I see proof of the Creator all around me.....

Very Cool

God is the universe.

There is no good and evil

It's all one.

Our creators know this:

Skull and bones 322

Genesis 3:22

And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."

Or perhaps he and others have a much different concept of who and what G-d is than you do.

To me, G-d is pure consciousness (spirit) and therefor if you were to say to me that there is no G-d, in my definition, you are saying there is no consciousness.

Last Edited by Mrs. Smith on 02/16/2011 08:49 PM

Great idea! Someone get on it...now! lol

possible, in any case, I don't adhere to any particular belief, and by belief, I include atheism, because to me atheism is belief in the non-existence of God

I'm more into non-dualism and Zen buddhism to say the truth, and Zen, in respect to such beliefs, is mostly about not clinging to any system of belief

+23,547,965

But if we are all made out of consciousness then personality is nothing but an illusion hmm?

OR IS IT

But still, "Love" is the Highest and consistent vibration

Ordo Ab Chao

Order out of Chaos...

Baby born=big bang, creation of universe(in their brain) person dies=destruction of universe, supernova=thinking of great idea in brain!! blackhole=period of depression.....lol kidding of course

NO wait!! sperm meets egg=big bang

Yes it is,just like fear and hate are the lowest and most chaotic vibration.

I mean,if there was no chaos...there would be no order.

Am i right or what?

In a sense...we are solid only because of our low vibrations.

Just like the higher the frequency of the electrons that spin around an atom,the more hotter it becomes.

Eventually turning into liquid.

I wish i could have a chat with one of the elite...just out of curiosity...imagine all the knowledge they possess.

Sad that they don't share it though.

I mean...i would...

Or do they think we would do something stupid with it?

Well,if they have the technology to be immortal and have probably acquired vast amounts of knowledge through surviving all these major cataclysms by creating slaves for themselves who do all the job for them then aren't WE the ones who actually have the RIGHT to do something stupid with it at ALL?

I say fuck those fuckers.

We don't have a lot of time left...we need a plan.

You become immortal when its time.. You cannot go around this, short cut it or in any way manipulate it,

All the Secret societies do is retain the information on how one knows its time for one to become immortal. They also teach we are all part of creation.

Gawd, I love fractals. Squares suck.

I remember seeing first computer generated fractal programs in 1989 - have been mesmerized ever since. :)

Ok, here's a start:

OHhhhhhhh, ME TOO!!!

The Universe is made up of many little parts of something so big we cannot comprehend it
I'll always think that.

They flew a camera outside of the universe, and then took a picture?

Let the power go to your head, and end up being like the ones that have abused it.

Flower of life... the very first piece of sacred geometry I seriously "woke up" to. It's like a childhood memory, from my late teens. =) Good times.