The Vault and the Delta in Glory

The Vault and the Delta in Glory

The Triangle and the Pyramid as the central motif, with the Divine and Fire in a secondary part. From The True Masonic Chart, 1819.

Symbolica, 2026 Plate 46 of the chart, in the Select 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.

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

  1. 1The Triangle and the Pyramidcentral motif as it reads here: The Vault and the Delta in Glory
  2. 2The Divinesecondary motif
  3. 3Firesecondary motif

A triangle bearing the sacred name blazing in a glory above, and below it a vault of nine arches descending to a small altar at the bottom. By eye

Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.

Where the detail is the subject

the Divine · Fire

Each of these is in the picture without being what it is about. Below, one work that is about each.

Record

Source
Rights
No known copyright restrictions, 1826 printing
Restoration
None. A 700 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
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 Vault and the Delta in Glory. Internet Archive catalogues it as: The Vault and the Delta in Glory, 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 Vault and the Delta in Glory”, Jeremy L. Cross, compiler; engraved by Amos Doolittle, 1826 printing, first published 1819. thesymbolica.com/work/the-vault-and-the-delta-in-glory/