Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

dwell in unity? “Though there is an obvious rationale for the 13 stars (13 colonies) there is also a more subtle reason—13 is a key number of Satan.” [Emphasis in the original] One Masonic symbol that appears to be Christian is the cross and the crown emblem. However, this is not the case. Masonic author, Ray Denslow, reveals:

“The Cross and Crown may be said to be confined almost exclusively to the historical degrees in Masonry as exemplified in the various orders of knighthood of York and Scottish rites. In Gaul we find the cross to have been a solar symbol when it had equal arms and angles; to the Phoenicians it was an instrument of sacrifice to their God, Baal; and to the Egyptians, the crux ansata was his symbol of eternal life. ” [Emphasis in the original] In The Masonic Report we find more about this emblem: “Question: What does Masonry’s emblem of the ‘Cross and Crown’ actually symbolize? “Answer: The ‘Cross’ of Freemasonry is a philosophical cross, according to Albert Pike, ‘Morals and Dogma,’ p. 771. It is philosophical in the sense that it represents the generating fecundating principle by the perpendicular shaft, and