The mandorla and tau: the secrets and mysteries of freemasonry revealed
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adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
........................................................................................11
Chapter
1 -
Something different
..................................................................13
Is anybody out there
?..........................................................................14
Chapter
2 -
The gift of life
.............................................................................17
SECTION
1_________________________________________________22
Chapter
3 -
Here is the Key
!!.......................................................................21
Author s Introduction-
........................................................................21
Chapter
4 -
The Opening
...............................................................................26
What? Why? When? Where? How?
................................................26
An introduction to the Masonic World
..............................................27
Just how old is Freemasonry
...............................................................28
The Golden Fleece
.................................................................................30
The Roman Eagle
..................................................................................33
Chapter
5 -
Unreliable Guidance
.................................................................35
Modern Freemasonry and ancient wisdom
......................................40
Organised Freemasonry
.......................................................................42
The disclosures and exposures
...........................................................43
William Preston
-
Illustrations of Masonry
......................................45
Chapter
6-
Guild and Religion
..................................................................58
Religion in Europe, and
Arianism
......................................................65
The Religious and Social Gild
.............................................................67
Guild of St George in Norwich
-
and the myth of the Snap Dragon
...................................................73
The Holy Trinity Guild at Sleaford
.....................................................75
Merchant and Craft Guilds
..................................................................76
The end of the guilds
............................................................................86
The Mandorla
and
Tau
Chapter
7 -
Legends, Euclid s rediscovery
................................................91
Dates in freemasonry
...........................................................................91
Regius, Cooke and Dowland Manuscripts
.......................................93
The Legend of Maymus Grecus and Charles
Martel
.....................100
Charles
Martel
.....................................................................................100
Rediscovering Euclid
.........................................................................102
Table of main cultures, events and people in history
....................105
The Ancient of Days
-
William Blake
..............................................108
St Bernard and Abbot
Suger
..............................................................108
Chapter
8 -
The builders in stone
..............................................................114
St Benedict Biscop
...............................................................................114
More stone masonry developments
.................................................116
The Knights Templar
-
the builder warriors
..................................118
The builder masons
............................................................................120
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome returns
.......................122
The Renaissance
..................................................................................124
Wonderful buildings
..........................................................................128
Chapter
9
Lodges prior to
1717..................................................................130
The early Free Masons
- Elias
Ashmole
..........................................130
More early Free Masons
- Rändle
Holmes
&
Dr
Plot
...................134
Scottish Freemasonry
.........................................................................135
Thesis
-
the evolution of Speculative Freemasonry.
.......................137
Chapter
10 -
Section review
.........................................................................148
SECTION!
152
Chapter
11 -
Origins of Offices
..................................................................152
The Master:
..........................................................................................153
The Wardens
........................................................................................155
The Deacons
.........................................................................................160
The Tyler and the Inner Guard
.........................................................161
The Entered Apprentice, Fellow, Free-man and Mysteries
...........163
The Mandorla
and
Tau
Chapter
12 -
What is there to be learnt in the degrees?
.........................172
The term degrees
.................................................................................173
The Entered Apprentice knowledge
................................................176
The fellow/journeymen degree as an extension of
the apprentice
......................................................................................186
The degree of a Master Mason
..........................................................193
Chapter
13-А
new Solomon; A new Temple; a New Hiram:
.............196
The old and new temple
....................................................................197
John Donne
..........................................................................................200
The Masons
.........................................................................................201
Hypothesis: New Solomon; New Temple;
New Hiram Abif; New legend
..........................................................203
Chapter
14 -
The Royal Arch
......................................................................207
The
Tau.................................................................................................209
The Catenarian Arch
..........................................................................211
Solomon s Seal
.....................................................................................212
The legend and the Double Cube
.....................................................216
Platonic Solids
.....................................................................................221
The Master and Past Master degree
.................................................222
Chapter
15 -
The Antients
v
Moderns
.......................................................223
SECTIONS
__________________________________________230
Chapter
16 -
The foundation stone, plus the
Mystery of the lighted taper
.......................................................................230
Foundation Stones
..............................................................................230
The Mystery of the Lighted Taper
....................................................235
Chapter
17 -
The Old Initiation
..................................................................238
Chapter
18 -
The Closing
.............................................................................248
Endnotes.........................................................................................................250
Index
................................................................................................................252
The Mandorla
and
Tau
List of Illustrations
1.
Earthrise (NASA)
.................................................................................................14
2.
The
Mandorla
is a symbol with a secret
............................................................16
3.
Image of the Order of the Golden Fleece
-
City Library, Bruges
......................33
4.
Image of the Order of the Golden Fleece
-
Knights stalls, Bruges
...................33
5.
Two headed Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire
................................................34
6.
Remains of the
Antonine
Way near Falkirk
......................................................54
7.
The Ancient of Days
-
William Blake
...............................................................108
8.
St Bernard in praise of the Virgin Mary,
a sculpture on the Charles Bridge
-
Prague
...................................................113
9.
The interior of Rochester Cathedral
-
architectural style
changed from Romanesque to French style/gothic
.......................................117
10.
Sompting Church with its eighth century Rhenish tower
............................117
11.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci
...............................................................123
12.
An original
1723
edition of Andersons Constitutions
...................................126
13.
Opening pages for the Constitutions of Freemasonry
...................................126
14.
Pages showing the start of the section dealing with the charges
.................127
15.
Part of a list of
36
buildings undertaken in the Renaissance
classical style, starting with the Queen s House, Greenwich
.......................127
16.
An enlarged view of the part of the page that starts
the list of Renaissance buildings
.......................................................................128
17.
The Royal Exchange London
-
in the classical style
......................................129
18.
Tilt of the Earth on it s axis
................................................................................156
19.
The path of the sun
-
Summer
..........................................................................157
20.
The path of the sun
-
winter
..............................................................................157
21.
The path of the sun
-
spring/ autumn
.............................................................157
22.
Passing of the seasons
-
the way our ancestors saw it
..................................158
23.
Marking the sun at its meridian
........................................................................158
24.
The remains of the midday marker in the Old Town Square
-
Prague
......159
25.
A typical page from a record book of Entered Apprentices
..........................166
26.
A further entry
-
City of Rochester
..................................................................166
27.
A declaration of individuals admitted to the freedom of the
City of Rochester on 28th February
1712..........................................................169
28.
Register of those granted Freedom of the City of Rochester
during a period of nearly one year in
1767/8.................................................170
29.
Diagrams of the six-spoke wheel
......................................................................174
30.
The
labarum
........................................................................................................174
31.
The sun rises in the East
-
an illusion
..............................................................175
32.
By midday the sun is directly overhead
..........................................................175
33.
At sunset, we are in the east relative to the sun
.............................................175
34.
The
3,4,5
triangle, features in Masonic jewels
.................................................178
35.
Marking the sun at its meridian
-
St George s Day
.......................................180
36.
Euclid
-
dividing a line
......................................................................................182
37.
The fourth part of a circle
...................................................................................183
The Mandorla
and
Tau
38.
The Master Masons Secret Square
....................................................................184
39.
The Master Masons Secret Square
....................................................................184
40.
The Master Masons Secret Square
....................................................................184
41.
The Master Masons Secret Square in a church window
................................184
42.
The Golden Ratio
-
geometry
............................................................................185
43.
The Golden Ratio
-
result
...................................................................................185
44.
The Queen s House, Greenwich
-
Golden Ratio
............................................185
45.
The Queen s House, Greenwich
-
Golden Ratio
............................................185
46.
Level
-
an old example
......................................................................................187
47.
Plumb rule
-
a simple plumb bob
....................................................................187
48.
James Ferguson
-
the pattern of Venus orbit
.................................................189
49.
The pentagram
...................................................................................................190
50.
The pentagram and the golden ratio
-2...........................................................190
51.
The pentagram and the golden ratio
-3...........................................................190
52.
Pentagrams in church window tracery
-
Cambridge University
................191
53.
Solomon s Temple and solar alignment
...........................................................191
54.
The entrance to Temple of AbuSimbel
...........................................................191
55.
Spirals and the golden ratio
...............................................................................192
56.
Spiral Staircase
-
Queen s House, Greenwich
................................................192
57.
Point within a circle
............................................................................................194
58.
Porchway or entrance on the south side
-
St Paul s Cathedral, London
.....199
59.
Winding staircase of St. Paul s Cathedral
........................................................199
60.
St Paul s Cathedral, London, looking along the south facing side
..............199
61.
The statue of John Donne, wrapped in a shroud
...........................................200
62.
Triple
Tau..............................................................................................................209
63.
Solomon s Seal
.....................................................................................................209
64.
Catenarian Arch
..................................................................................................209
65.
Image of an ancient Temple
-
classical architecture
......................................210
66.
The T
tau -
golden ratio
.................................................................................210
67.
Catenarian arch
...................................................................................................211
68.
Catenarian Arch
-
modified
..............................................................................211
69.
Keystone
...............................................................................................................212
70.
Solomon s Seal, complete with circle, in Chichester Cathedral, Sussex,
directly above another window formed in the pointed arch gothic style
..213
71.
Simple geometric forms
.....................................................................................213
72.
Euclid and
Vesica
Piseis.....................................................................................
213
73.
Vesica
Piseis
to the gothic arch
..........................................................................214
74.
Gothic arches created from
Vesica
Piseis........................................................
214
75.
The
Vesica
Piseis
pattern can be found in the gallery of the Knights
................
Templar Round Church, London, beautifully carved by
the expert hands of stonemasons
......................................................................214
76.
Vesica
Piseis
useful geometry
............................................................................215
77.
Vesica
Piseis
useful geometry creates key angles
...........................................215
78.
Vesica
Piseis
useful geometry creates Solomon s Seal
...................................215
79.
Vesica
Piseis
and the Triple
Tau........................................................................215
The Mandorla
and
Tau
80.
Hippocrates
-
double cube
................................................................................217
81.
Classic column using the double cube solution for the base
........................218
82.
Doubling the Cube based on
Vesica
Piseis......................................................
219
83.
Doubling the Cube based on an equilateral triangle in
Vesica
Piseis..........
219
84.
Doubling the Cube volume, based on
Vesica
Piseis.......................................
219
85.
Ephesus possible connection with
Vesica
Piseis.............................................
220
86.
Ephesus possible connection with
Vesica
Piseis
position of columns
.........220
87.
Ephesus possible connection squares to form structural positions
.............220
88.
Platonic Solids
-
sphere
......................................................................................221
89.
Platonic Solids
-
Triangle into tetrahedron
.....................................................221
90.
Platonic Solids
-
Cube into Octagon
................................................................221
91.
Platonic Solids
-
Triangle into Icosahedron
....................................................221
92.
Platonic Solids
-
Triangle into Octahedron
.....................................................221
93.
Platonic Solids
-
Pentagon into Dodecahedron
..............................................221
94.
The Octagram reflecting Platonic Theory
........................................................222
95.
Foundation stone laying, a Masonic parade
...................................................234
96.
Foundation stone laying, the ceremony
..........................................................234
97.
Examples of foundation stones laid with full Masonic Ceremony
-
Residence of the Governor of Western Australia
........................................234
98.
Examples of foundation stones laid with full Masonic Ceremony
-
an eye hospital in Sussex
................................................................................234
Charts and Diagrams:
A. Outline chart of major events
325
CE
- 1135
CE...............................................
87
B.
Diagram of probable Gild/Guild relationships
...............................................90
C. Table of main cultures, events and people in history
....................................105
D. Diagram of major events affecting development of Gothic architecture.
...
Ill
E. Diagram of key events circa
1100
CE
-1813...................................................224
F.
Tables attempting to identify types of stonemason work
and influences circa
1050 - 1650........................................................................224
G. Diagram suggesting the development of the
knowledge of the Antients
.................................................................................225
H. Diagram suggesting the development of the
knowledge of the Moderns
................................................................................228
I. Diagram suggesting the Antient/Modern route to the U.G.L.E
..................229
J. Diagram suggesting Roots of Knowledge in Freemasonry.
..........................229
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