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Notorious
emblem of the Freemasonry, the square and the compass are inserted
in the legend that makes to derive the Masons Companions from
the bricklayers that worked for Hiram Abif, legendary Phoenician
architect of the Solomon Temple, initiated to the arcane and
antedeluvian knowledge of the Sacred Geometry. Hiram was murdered
after having finished his work and his workers, uniforms in
the various groups of carpenters, masons and sculptors made
a secret pact so that the knowledge of they own Teacher didn't
go lost but it was brought ahead in the centuries, although
in hidden way. Square and compass, symbol obviously of the job
of mason but also of the order of the elements and the natural
laws that govern the universe, they began to be used in the
reunions of the foreman-freemasonry beginning from the 17th
Century, but only in the '700 were begun a concrete codification
that represented together them to other symbols types of this
secret society. |
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is also another interpretation to the symbol of the Square
and the Compass, which also explains the meaning of the letter
G placed inside of the two tool. Currently considering the
square put a V as a symbol of the regularity of the walls,
their perpendicularity, and compass instead indicate the possibility
of draw arc and take the measures. The G in the middle of
the common opinion is the Great Architect, Hiram Abif and
by extension the divine aspect related to construction, such
as personified in Egypt by the Architect-God Ptah. But according
to another opinion square and compass would not be two masons
tool, but they are related to navigation and the sea. The
square would be a sextant and a compass would be the piece
of heavenly quadrant of reference. A map of the northern hemisphere
with stellar indicated at the point of G, the constellation
of Gemini, and by extension the seventh star in order of brightness
of the constellation, i.e. Gamma Geminorum. Square and compass
not show a geometric knowledge, but a geometry applied to
the sky and sea navigation. A treasure map to reach the path
of initiation. Today the two emblems are object of furious
attacks from the promoters of the cospiracionist theories,
also following the many scandals in which members of the Freemasonry
have been involved beginning from the '70. |
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Curious it is for instance the use of square and
compass as identification of a political person joint to the Mafia,
as it appears in the videoclip of the Italian rockstar Vasco Rossi,
"Basta poco". |
