Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

three immovable jewels, three grand principles, three assassins, three searching lodges, three who rule a lodge, three Grand Masters, and three orders of architecture. In fact, the respect paid by Freemasons to this number goes far to suggest that our mysteries have affinities not only with the Egyptian rites and ceremonies, but with those of a good many other nations. In the mythologies of Greece and Rome the thunderbolt of Jupiter was three forked; the sceptre of Neptune was a trident. There were three Fates and three Furies. Both the sun and moon had three names—Apollo, Sol, and Liber, and Diana, Luna, and Hecate respectively. Cerberus was three-headed. In Hindu mythology the worshipper of Vishnu has his forehead decorated with a trident.” A Dictionary of Symbols explains that the trident “is an attribute of the god of the unconscious and of sin—Neptune, whose realm is the haunt of monsters and base forms of life. The triple character of the trident is an ‘INFERNAL replica of the Trinity....’” Neptune, the god of the sea, is also known as Poseidon, Hades (hell), and Shiva.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell reminds us that the “trefoil or trident, [is] the symbol of Shiva, Poseidon, Satan.” The Lord of the Abyss is pictured with a hammer which “is symbolic, also, of the lightning bolt of illumination...." The trident “is also a fire symbol....” Remember, that Lucifer (Satan) is called the