Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

40 GRAND MASTER OF ALL SYMBOLIC LODGES. GRAND MASTER OP AI.L SYMBOLIC i.oi~ir.s. 41
Bible, square and compass, sword, mallet, etc., ete., as in
a Symbolic lodge. The lodge is lighted by nine’
8 lights
of three triangles one within the other, in a candlestick
with nine branches between the altar and the west on
the tracing board. Over the Venerable Master in the
East is a glory suitrounding a triangle, in the eentre of
which are the words Fiat Lux.’” In the middie of the
room surrounding the altar, in the form of a triangle are
three columns on which are these words: On that in the
East, Truth, on that in the West, Justice, on that in the
South, Toleration. The lodge cannot be opened unless
nine members be present. Besides the nine lights mentioned
above, there may be others used in different partt
of the lodge; but should be arranged in squares and
triangles. The nine great lights should be of yellow20’
wax.
OFFICERS :—The officers are as in a Symbolic lodge;
the Orator sits in the North and the Pursuivant guards
the door within. All wear their hats.
SASH :—The sash is yellow and sky blue, or two, one
of each color, crossing each other.
APRON :—The apron is yellow, lined and bordered
with sky blue. Upon it in the centre are three equilateral
triangles one within the other, with the initial
letters of the nine great lights in ihe corners; thus in
the corners of the outer one at the apex, C.’.; at the
Note 21B,—”Yine. This is one the sacred Numbers it poaseases
remarkable powers of reproduction, and in the Pythagorean philosn~hy
was made the subject of much mysterious disoertation “—Morris’s
Masento Diotlonary, Arttnia Nina.
Note 216.—”Lux Fiat at Lux Fit. Latin. ‘Let there be light. anO
there was light. • A motto sometimes prefixed to Masonic documents.’
—Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Arttole Lux Fiat at Lux Fit.
Note 211.—The natural sun was the symbol of the apiritosi sun,
~ Id represented the natural sun. and yellow warn the emblem of gold.
It is evldqnt that yellow derives all it, significance as a symbolic
color from its connection with the hue of the rays of the sun and the
metal gold.
Among the ancients, the divine light or wisdom was represented by
y
ellow, as the divine heat or cl~’nt wer
aymi,olism
was by red. And this appears to
he about the whole of the an of this color. ‘—Mackey’s
Enqoio’~ias4in of Freemasonry. Artlola Yellow.
right hand corner G.~.; at the left V...; middle triangle,
at the apex, H.~.; at the right P.~.; at the left
H.~.;i nner one, at the apex T.’.; at the right T.~.; at
the left Z. ~.. In the centre of the inner one in the
tetragramma.ton21’ and across it from below upwai’ds,
the words Fiat Lur.
TRACING BOARD :—The tracing board is an octagon
with a square raised on each of five sides, and an equilateral
triangle on each of the three others, with the
initials of the twenty-nine virtues of a mason in the
c~nrners of the squares and triangles. In the centre or
the octagon are the nine great lights.
JEW EL:—The jewel is gold. like the triangle on the
apron, with the same words and letters, or like the
tracing board.
BATTERY :—Is one and two; 0 00.
Note 218. “Tetragrammaton. to Greek It signifies a word of four
letters it is the title given by the Talmudiala to the name of God
Jehovi,,. ,vhici, in the original Hebrew ronsists of four letters. —
Mackey’s Enoyclopsedia of Freemasonry, Article Tatragrammaton.