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Chapter 4 - Signs & Symbols 235
On the extract before we see the Grand Master sitting on the terrestrial orb
with the square in his right hand and the compass in his left, designing a circle on
his tracing board, which is a symbol of universality, spanning the whole world
with brotherly love. Among other signs, he has drawn the 47 th problem of Euclid
and a triangle inside a circle. Under his left foot lies a finished plan of a temple.
Divine rays are emanating from this figure, as well as from the letter G which is
under his feet. G represents both "Geometry" and "God." The Grand Master does
not represent Hiram Abiff, but the grand Master Builder himself, the Great
Architect of the Universe, designing his eternal plan. On this Masonic record, the
banner under the letter G reads "Raised to the Sublime Degree of Master
Mason," left of column Jachin is written the date when Mr. Charles Mitchell was
made an Entered Apprentice, and right of the column Boaz appears the date
when he was passed a Fellow Craft. The Master Builder is the central figure of
the certificate, the biggest and the most lighted one. The degree of Master Mason
likewise is the Sublime Degree of Blue Masonry.
Another symbol of God is the All-Seeing Eye, also emanating golden rays,
located at the upper center of the record.