Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

The triangle is a very important symbol to the Masons and Eastern Star members. When a new Eastern Star Chapter is established, the Officers-elect are to form an equilateral triangle around the Altar. The Altar itself “is shaped in the form of a triangle. Traditionally, one angle is directed so that it points toward the East.” The pentagram itself is made up of triangles. Of course, like the pentagram, the triangle can be used in two different positions and each position has a special significance. A triangle, with one point down, represents the deity and is called the “Deity’s Triangle” or the “Water Triangle.” With one point up it is called the “Earthly Triangle,” “Pyramid Triangle,” or the “Fire Triangle,” and this emblem symbolizes “the PERFECT or DIVINE MAN.” [Emphasis in the original]

Manly P. Hall, a 33° Mason, boasts: “MAN IS A GOD IN THE MAKING....” George H. Steinmetz, another Masonic writer, brags: ‘“Be still—and know—that I am God.’’’...‘THAT I AM GOD’—the final recognition of the All in All, the unity of the Self with the Cosmos—the cognition of the DIVINITY OF THE SELF!” [Emphasis in the original] Joseph Fort Newton, a well-known Mason, claims that the Third Degree of Masonry testifies “to the profoundest insight of the human soul—that God becomes man that man may become God.” This theme of godhood or the divinity of man can be found in book after book written by Masons, New Agers, witches, and Satanists. Masonic author, J. D. Buck, states: “It is far more important that MEN SHOULD STRIVE TO BECOME CHRISTS than that they should believe that Jesus was Christ”. Arthur Edward Waite writes that “the Master-Builder of the THIRD DEGREE does actually rise as Christ....” [Emphasis in the original] In a book written by a 32° Mason, Charles H. Vail, entitled The Ancient