Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

on the jewel worn by the Steward. We’re told that the cornucopia “was introduced by the early American WITCHES that came over from Scotland.” Many Masonic authorities give us the meaning of this particular emblem. The Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada admits: “The emblem has allusion to the ancient Greek legend of Amalthea, a she-goat who nursed the god Zeus when he was a baby. Her horns were miraculous; from one of them flowed nectar, and from the other ambrosia. On one occasion she broke her horn off on a tree. Some one picked it up, filled it with fruit, and brought it to the baby god. According to some versions of the story it continued to replenish itself miraculously. The cornucopia is appropriated to the Steward as his emblem because of his function in ministering to the brethren at the hours of refreshment.”

Another Masonic writer, Carl Claudy, comments: “A curious derivation of a Masonic symbol from the heavens is that universally associated with the Stewards, the cornucopia.