The Ark within the Temple, under a cloud of fire
Fire as the central motif, with the Divine and the Vessel in a secondary part. From The True Masonic Chart, 1819.
What is happening
Jeremy L. Cross, 1826 “Most Excellent Masters Degree.”
Symbolica, 2026 Plate 29 of the chart, in the Most Excellent Master 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.
- 1Firecentral motif as it reads here: The Ark within the Temple, under a cloud of fire
- 2The Divinesecondary motif
- 3The Vesselsecondary motif
The picture
An arched temple interior in perspective, the ark on its altar at the centre, a cloud of fire rising from it to the vault. 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.
Also carrying Fire
30 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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