The Arms of Royal Arch Masonry
The Lion as the central motif, with the Bird, the Angel and the Wing and the Divine in a secondary part. From The True Masonic Chart, 1819.
What is happening
Jeremy L. Cross, 1826 “Royal Arch Masonry.”
Symbolica, 2026 Plate 42 of the chart, in the Royal Arch 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 · 4 motifs
The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.
- 1The Lioncentral motif as it reads here: The Arms of Royal Arch Masonry
- 2The Birdsecondary motif
- 3The Angel and the Wingsecondary motif
- 4The Divinesecondary motif
The picture
A shield quartered with the lion, the ox, the man and the eagle, held by two winged figures, three medallions beneath and the words Royal Arch Masonry arched above. 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 the Lion
8 works carry it. The 4 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.
Where the detail is the subject
the Bird · the Angel and the Wing · the Divine
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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