Jacob's Ladder
The Divine as the central motif, with the Heavens and the Tree in a secondary part. From The True Masonic Chart, 1819.
What is happening
Symbolica, 2026 Plate 7 of the chart, in the Entered Apprentice degree. Cross's monitor, printed in the same volume, gives the lecture that explains each emblem on the plate in turn; it is the written key to this picture and is not yet quoted here.
Key · 3 motifs
The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.
- 1The Divinecentral motif as it reads here: Jacob's Ladder
- 2The Heavenssecondary motif
- 3The Treesecondary motif
The picture
A ladder rising from a hillside into a cloud full of stars, its three rungs lettered F, H and C. By eye
Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.
Also carrying the Divine
22 works carry it. The 6 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.
Where the detail is the subject
Each of these is in the picture without being what it is about. Below, one work that is about each.
In the same series
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