Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

It is interesting to discover that, according to a Masonic book, that the “caduceus is a variant of the earliest form of the Cross, the Crux Ansata of the ancient Egyptians.” [Italics in the original; Boldface added] (The caduceus is covered in more detail in “Winged Symbols.”)

A related item to the ankh, the hammer of Thor, the tau cross, and the gavel, is the swastika. Occultist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky remarks: “Few world symbols are more pregnant with real OCCULT meaning than the Svastika.” In The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia of History, Rites, Symbolism, and Biography we find that the swastika: