Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

mystical in his book on Freemasonry Morals and Dogma. ”

The peace symbol (also called the “broken cross,” “crow’s foot,” “witch’s foot,” “Nero Cross,” “sign of the ‘broken Jew,”’ and the “symbol of the ‘anti-Christ’”) is actually a cross with the arms broken. It also signifies the “gesture of despair,” and the “death of man.” “The Germanic tribes who used it attributed strange and mystical properties to the sign. Such a ‘rune’ is said to have been used by ‘black magicians’ in pagan incantations and condemnations.... To this very day the inverted broken cross—identical to the socialists’ ‘peace’ symbol—is known in Germany as a ‘todersrune,’ or death rune. Not only was it ordered by Hitler’s National Socialists that it must appear on German death notices, but it was part of the official inscription prescribed for the gravestones of Nazi officers of the dread SS. The symbol suited Nazi emphasis on pagan mysticism.” [Italics in the original; Boldface added] With the arms of the cross raised in an upright position, it is “a Pythagorean emblem of the course of life, in the form of a rising path with fork roads to Good and Evil.” It also signifies fertility, but with the arms pointing downward, it denotes evil and death.