THE LOST SYMBOL TOUR

       Masonic Trivia
Famous American Masons included the following people:

POLITICIANS

1789-1897

Presidents Washington, Madison, Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Garfield

1897-1953

Presidents, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Hoover, FD Roosevelt, and Truman

Post Word War ll:

Presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford

THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack L. Warner, John Phillips Sousa, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and Count Basie among others

MASONIC SYMBOLS INCLUDE:

The Lodge
Physical: the world is made up of four elements and the Mason's Square reminds us of this of these elememts when balanced.
Spiritual: Before the 19th century all individuals were believed to designed according to the same four-level plan of "humors'.

The Deity
The Creator Deity is respresented by several symbols including a star with a circle and a triangle in the center; an eye surrounded by a glory; a triangle containing an eye surrounded by a glory; a triangle containing the letter "G" or Hebrew letters for God.
(A glory is an aura of radiant light)

Columns of the Temple
The pillar to the North of King Solomon's temple door was called Boaz, the pllar to the south of the temple door was called "Jachin". In one legend these pillars contain all the forms of ancient knowledge from before the flood.

Skull and Crossbones