Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels
Julian Rees
Julian Rees decodes the symbolic and allegorical meaning of the Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels of the Lodge.
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Description
One of the Emulation lectures tells us that the interior of a Freemason’s Lodge is composed of Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels. But what exactly are Ornaments, Furniture and Jewels in a Masonic context? Julian Rees shows that we are dealing with objects of symbolic and allegorical significance: the Blazing Star, the Square Pavement and the Tessellated Border; the Volume of the Sacred Law; and jewels that are sometimes not concrete objects at all, but the summit of allegorical meaning in a speculative sense.
An entire chapter is devoted to the power of allegory, and the reader is led on a journey through many Masonic jewels and their relationship to architecture and art in the wider world. Illustrated throughout.
