Symbolica
The Two Pillars

The Two Pillars

The Heavens as the central motif. From The True Masonic Chart, 1819.

Jeremy L. Cross, compiler; engraved by Amos Doolittle, 1826 printing, first published 1819. Engraving.

No known copyright restrictions, 1826 printing · Web copy 798 by 1400 px · Internet Archive, Library of Congress copy, leaf 32

What is happening

Jeremy L. Cross, 1826 “Section Second.” The True Masonic Chart, or Hieroglyphic Monitor, engraved above the plate.

Symbolica, 2026 Plate 12 of the chart, in the Fellow Craft 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 · 1 motif

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

  1. 1The Heavenscentral motif as it reads here: The Two Pillars

The picture

Two Corinthian columns on pedestals, a globe on each capital, the celestial on one and the terrestrial on the other. 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 Heavens

36 works carry it. The 6 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.

In the same series

The True Masonic Chart, 1819

Record

Source
Internet Archive, Library of Congress copy, leaf 32
Rights
No known copyright restrictions, 1826 printing
Restoration
None. A 798 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
The True Masonic Chart, 1819
Artist
Jeremy L. Cross, masonic lecturer of New Hampshire and Connecticut, 1783 to 1860, who compiled the chart and its monitor; the plates were engraved by Amos Doolittle of New Haven
Titled here
The Two Pillars. Internet Archive catalogues it as: The Two Pillars, from The True Masonic Chart, New Haven 1826
Checked
the Internet Archive item metadata, 4 September 2026: Cross as author, New Haven, 1826, contributed by the Library of Congress, which states it is unaware of any copyright restrictions. Doolittle's signature is engraved on some plates and the attribution of the rest to him follows the book's own title. What is quoted was read off the plate; the monitor's lectures are not yet quoted. Not seen in the hand.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The Two Pillars”, Jeremy L. Cross, compiler; engraved by Amos Doolittle, 1826 printing, first published 1819. thesymbolica.com/work/the-two-pillars/