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The Mysteries that are here Shown are only to a Mason Known
1755
William Thompson
England: London
Engraving on paper
Overall: 14"h x 10"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.0037

Engraving showing King Solomon drawing plans of the Temple looking up to Heaven with Father Time, Mother Nature (holding scroll: "Hic Labor Hoc Opus"), an Angel with trumpet (scroll reads: Masonry Universal 5755) and two cherubim with banner: "Silence and Secrecy". Landscape scenery with Masonic symbols: five beehives, archway (reads above: "Pulsanti Aperietur", river, pyramid, Masons meeting on hillside. Below image reads: "The Mysteries that here are Shown / are only to a Mason known. / To the most Ancient and Honorable Soceity of Free and Accepted Masons this Plate / is humbly Inscribed by thier Affectionate Brother / Willim Thompson Hieroglyphus. / Printed for Robt Sayer & Co. Fleet Street London."