In Masonry the sun has many symbols

In Masonry the sun has many symbols. One expression of the solar energy is Solomon, whose name SOL-OM-ON is the name for the sun symbol masonrySupreme Light in three different languages.

Hiram Abiff, the CHiram (Hiram) of the Chaldees, is also a solar deity, and the story of his attack and murder by the Ruffians, with its solar interpretation, will be found in the chapter The Hiramic Legend. A striking example of the important part which the sun plays in the symbols and rituals of Freemasonry is given by George Oliver, D.D., in his Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry, as follows: (more…)

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression

Many P. Hall had written in the Secret Teachings of All Ages – “The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms sun symbolof religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief. The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the Supreme Deity.

Concerning the origin of sun worship, Albert Pike makes the following concise statement in his Morals and Dogma: “To them [aboriginal peoples] he [the sun] was the innate fire of bodies, the fire of Nature. Author of Life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no existence, no form. He was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and everywhere present. (more…)

The summer solstice

“The summer solstice is regarded as occurring in Cancer (the Crab), which the Egyptians called the scarab–a beetle of the family summer solsticeLamellicornes, the head of the insect kingdom, and sacred to the Egyptians as the symbol of Eternal Life.

It is evident that the constellation of the Crab is represented by this peculiar creature because the sun, after passing through this house, proceeds to walk backwards, or descend the zodiacal arc.

Cancer is the symbol of generation, for it is the house of the Moon, the great Mother of all things and the patroness of the life forces of Nature. Diana, the moon goddess of the Greeks, is called the Mother of the World.”

By Manly P. Hall – The Secret Teachings of All Ages (The Zodiac and Its Signs)

Angel Wings

“The Rosicrucians and the Illuminati, describing the angels, archangels, and other celestial creatures, declared that they resembled Quote on human alchemysmall suns, being centers of radiant energy surrounded by streamers of Vrilic force.
 
From these outpouring streamers of force is derived the popular belief that angels have wings.
These wings are corona-like fans of light, by means of which the celestial creatures propel themselves through the subtle essences of the superphysical worlds.” – Manly P. Hall

The dream is the small hidden door

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” —Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man, 1934

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