Master's Carpet

Jeremy L. Cross, 1826 “Masters Carpet.” The True Masonic Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor, engraved beneath the plate.

Symbolica, 2026 Plate the frontispiece to the degrees of the chart, in the Master Mason 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.

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

1. 1The Eyecentral motif as it reads here: Master's Carpet
2. 2The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif
3. 3The Heavenssecondary motif
4. 4The Divinesecondary motif

The two pillars with globes on a chequered pavement, the all-seeing eye above in a cloud, the sun at the left and the moon and seven stars at the right, a ladder to the cloud, the letter G, a beehive, an anchor, the tools and the coffin among the emblems. By eye

Not yet decoded: the motifs are tagged by eye and the readings above are quoted from their sources. The marks on the picture and the sourced notes come with the entry.