The Secret Power of Masonic Symbols: The Influence of Ancient Symbols on the Pivotal Moments in History and an Encyclopedia of All the Key Masonic Symbols Book

preface The Hidden influence of Ancient symbols 9

Part 1 The Secret Influence of Symbols 14

chapter 1 why symbols are More powerful Than words 16

symbols Hade us Human 16

symbols Began in Dark caves 20

The Heaven of perfect symbols 23

How Humans Learned to Live with symbols 25

The Ancient symbols still work 26

pictures can Transfer Thoughts 29

symbols Taught us How to Think 31|2 chapter 2 How symbols Turned Hunters into farmers 33

symbols Let us communicate with the Dead 33

symbols Helped Hunters 35

symbols Taught farming 38

Ancient symbols found in a Birthing chamber 41

chapter 3 How symbols created Kingdoms 47

The importance of counting 47

The first symbols 50

The symbol of Newgrange 52

The importance of writing symbols 52

Fortune favors the symbol writer 57

A New Alphabet Appears 59

chapter 4 The power of symbols on the Human Brain 61

Humans Have Two Minds 61

symbols Have sex Appeal 63

The influence of stone symbols 65

stone symbols Have sacred power 66

chapter 5 How symbols created Freemasonry 68

symbols and Myths work Together 68

Buildings are symbols 68

How the True cross inspired the first freemasons 71

How symbols Taught the first freemasons 74

The Emotional power of symbols 75

How symbolic Teaching spread 78

chapter 6 symbols can penetrate the Mind of god 80

A symbol That Analyzes Equality 80

Masonic slide Rules and early Arithmetic 81

why Equations are a Mystery 84

The Great Architect 87

symbols are the Key to the Mind of god 88

The Heaven of pure symbols 91

chapter 7 The secret symbol of political stability 95

The pillars That inspired Republicanism 95

The pillars That formed freemasonry 98

The symbols That Taught George Washington 98

The Masonic Meanings of the Two pillars 99

The pillars That Established Ancient Egypt 101

The pillars and the concubines 104

The pillars That influenced the English civil war 105

The pillars That support the U.S. presidents 107

The pillars That Reconciled England and the united states 108

A present-Day symbol to strengthen the Euro 109

chapter 8 Masonic symbols that changed the U.S. constitution 111

The symbolic solution to the corruption of power 111

How symbols can separate powers 113

How Masonic symbolists influenced James Madison 116

why Three pillars of state underpin the U.S. constitution 118

chapter 9 How symbols and Mankind Took a Great Leap Together 122

Masons and the Apollo space progra 122

why the Moon is a powerful symbol 123

How symbols Assisted project Apollo 126

How symbols Helped put Man on the Moon 129

Part 2 A Practical Introduction to Masonic Symbology 132

chapter 10 symbols of the first Degree 134

The square

The Level

The plumb Rule

The Altar

The volume of the sacred Law

The compasses

The sun

The Moon and the stars

The Northeast corner

The glory at the center

The Left-Hand pillar

The Master of the Lodge

The 24-Inch gauge

The common gavel

The chisel

The form of the Lodge

The pillar of wisdom

The pillar of strength

The pillar of Beauty

The celestial canopy

Jacob's Ladder

faith

Hope

charity

The Mosaic pavement

The Blazing star

The Indented or Tessellated

Border

The Tracing Board

The Rough Ashlar

The perfect Ashlar

The point within a circle chalk, charcoal, and clay

The Lewis

The square and compasses with Both points covered

chapter 11 symbols of The second Degree 196

The square and compasses with one point covered

The Right-Hand pillar

The Two pillars at the Entrance to King solomon's Temple

The chapiters

The Net-work

The Lily-work

The pomegranates

The globes

The Middle chamber

The spiral staircase

The wages

An Ear of corn Near a pool of water

The five Noble orders of Architecture

chapter 12 symbols of the Third Degree 220

The square and compasses with Both points Revealed

The open grave

The perfect cube

The porch

The Dormer

The square pavement

The skirret

The pencil

The compasses

The sprig of Acacia

The Emblems of Mortality

The Bright Morning star

chapter 13 General symbols of the wider craft 240

The Equilateral Triangle

The Double Triangle (The seal of solomon)

The Triple Tau

The Triangle within a circle

The Keystone

The vault

The uncompleted Temple

The pillars, circle, and center

Part 3 A Practical Introduction to the Tracing Boards 254

chapter 14 The Tracing Boards 256

The first-Degree Tracing Board

The second-Degree Tracing Board

The Mark Tracing Board

The Third-Degree Tracing Board

The Royal Arch Tracing Board

The Tracing Board of the center

The center

Endnotes 262

Acknowledgments 266

About the Author 266

Index 267