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Chapter 8 - Categorization of Rituals
grounds" or drawn circles when calling the devil who will not hurt the person
standing within the circle. The Masons equally seem to claim "their ground."
Thus, several people believe that Washington, D.C., was laid out according to
Masonic principles (see also Section 10.3 on anti-Masonic comics). Whether this
is true or not - it should not raise conspiracy theories among the population.
Geometrical figures have always been appointed some mythological sense or
another in the past, but the city planners and architects of today surely did not
mean to attribute any devilish symbolism to buildings like the Pentagon. It may
also be that squares, circles, and triangles occurring in the formation of streets on
a town map are merely incidentally. However, there exist some obvious
evidences of Masonic influence on urban development, for example with regard
to Sandusky in Ohio, whose town map shows the symbol of the square and the
compass 1674 .
Streets of Sandusky, Ohio, in the shape of square & compass
entrance to the Deutsches
Freimaurer-Museum at Bayreuth,
displaying the square & compass
1674 Cook (ed.), Did You Know?, p. 21.