The Burning Bush

Jeremy L. Cross, 1826 “Exodus III. 1-6.” The True Masonic Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor, engraved beneath the plate, the scripture it draws.

Amos Doolittle, 1826 “Doolittle Sc.” The True Masonic Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor, the engraver's signature at the foot of the plate.

Symbolica, 2026 Plate 33 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.

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

1. 1Firecentral motif as it reads here: The Burning Bush
2. 2The Divinesecondary motif
3. 3The Treesecondary motif

Moses kneeling with his staff before a bush that burns on a mountainside, a shepherd and his flock beside him, a winged figure in the flame. 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.