Masonic Symbols 101: The Compass - Part 2

Even more on the compass.

Some of you who have read the first part probably were a little curious why I didn’t directly talk about the compass in the Freemason logo:

The short answer is because there are different interpretations of a compass and I wanted to focus on the idea more than the various objects which bear the name. You see, I’m going off the primary definition of a compass:

>Compass 1. Stretch; reach; extent; the limit or boundary of a space, and the space included; applied to time, space, sound, etc.

For that reason, your likely first visual form of a compass would either be like in the Freemason logo or the nautical bauble with a magnet that points north that sailors use. Both of these tools are named thusly because they tap into that original definition of a compass — which is closer to a measured expanse rather than cardinal directions or a means by which circles may be drawn.

The logo itself is a combination of three principles — Constants, Variables, and Generation.

The Square, the L shaped ruler, is used to find a right angle, which is the basis for all modular constructive works. In other words, you can’t have a grid without an origin which sets the angle of the lines which compose the grid. The square represents the rules by which the rest of the design is beholden to. In mathematics, these are called constants. Constants are unchanging variables, which means they are locked in and cannot change. You can alter the angle of a compass but you cannot change the angle of a square — it is always 90°. The two together form the basis of a rational, replicable design. The square serves as the foundation and the compass serves as the bridge by which new measurements may be found. For this reason, the compass earns its namesake because it can “reach” outwards from a point of origin and scribe new destinations. In nautical use the same two-legged hinge device is used by locking the angle, which locks the distance between the two points, and can be used by “walking” the legs around a map to find the exact distance between two points on a map. If you set the compass to 50 miles relative to the map, then each swivel of the legs adds 50 miles to your total distance to travel. You need then only count the steps and then multiply.

Furthermore, a compass may be used as a divider, which is a closer example of the compass in the logo as it has no scribing end. For more on the use of a compass/divider in nautical navigation you can watch this short video:

Like in programming, you can easily alter the distance between the points of a compass, which makes it a very versatile tool for comparisons.

If you recall, comparisons between concepts are exactly what operation we performed in Part 1.

Therefore, the Freemason compass is a tool to find these comparisons and is named after a loftier concept than just as being coincidental. The magnetic compass, too, receives its name because it also describes an expanse of measurement. It points towards the origin, the north pole, and allows one to precisely measure angles from north to find your relationship to north. North is a set direction away from you at all times, both directly in a straight line through the Earth as well as tracking the circumference of the Earth. While there are some places a magnetic compass fails to find north, for the majority of applications it is reliable.

Regardless, both tools who bear the same name reference the traditional definition of compass, which is a measured expanse and a boundary within which one may propagate. This same idea is applied to any industrious venture. You may be good at making baskets, for instance, but being able to calculate the number of baskets you can make a day and then calculating that number over a month allows you to plan for how many baskets you’ll need to reach a goal. In other words, it allows you to plan and chart a course by which one may “see” into the future granted all things go according to those calculations you’ve made. Any constructive work that scales up to a production level must consider these ideas, otherwise ruin awaits.

Looking back to the spectrum comparison maps I demonstrated in Part 1 when comparing concepts and classification, you can see how there is a strict boundary formed within which we must operate. You can’t be sharper than the sharpest coordinate that system allows. Otherwise, the new sharp you’d have discovered simply sets the RULE which is the furthest reach of sharpness. It becomes what is called a Pole, like the north pole is to nautical navigation.

Between these two poles we may then categorize, organize, and classify all that lies within. Anything that conceptually does not land between the poles is considered the Unknown or Void. What is outside the poles is left only to God to determine. What is within is for Man to determine.

These two poles are also prevalent in Masonic teaching, and are known as the Pillars of Hercules or, as Plato puts it in his description of Atlantis, the Columns of Heracles.

https://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/ataw102.htm

In his dialog, the pillars represent the realms which Atlantis was given authority by the gods to wage war on. Any land found between the two pillars which can be seen through them as they rest on either side of the strait out of Atlantis’ harbor were fair game to pillage and plunder as the Atlantians saw fit.

>”Let me begin by observing, first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between all those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and those who dwelt within them: this war I am now to describe.”

So, if the Cabal fancies themselves as ancestors of a privileged bloodline of “gods” then seeing this pillars anywhere means what, exactly?

Well… Where do the pillars show up most freqently?

Yup…

Every social security card bears YOUR NAME between those two pillars.

In other words, YOU are fair game for the ancestors of Atlantis to rape, pillage, plunder, and rule by the most vicious means of war, as given permission by the gods of Olympia. They are free to wage war upon you and everything you have, and they believe your acceptance and bearing of this card gives them a contractual means by which to do so. They believe anything they do to someone holding this card cannot be a sin used against them to keep them out of the paradise that is Atlantis, because they alone were given permission to wage war on all those who are between the Pillars of Heracles.

But what does this have to do with the compass?

Well, think back to Part 1 and what I’ve said about poles.

Everything between the poles is discernable, and therefore tamable by Man. Everything outside the poles belongs to God. Or, at least, that’s how they think…

This is both figurative and literal, mind you. They believe that anyone who can measure, by means of a compass, what lies within the poles of any spectrum is theirs to rule. That also explains why they are so crazy about putting people in boxes and categorizing everyone as a part of a tribe, group, worldview, belief system, religion, culture or ideology. Individualism breaks the boundaries of the poles, and so they realize that they must paint everyone an ism, ist, phobe or otherwise in order to control them. That’s why they are so determined to color people as racist, sexist, homophobe, white supremacist, conservative, liberal, woke, etc. The name-calling gives them power, in their minds, because it firmly puts the target on the spectrum by which their finely-tuned algorithms can then control.

The compass, then, represents the measure between all things within the boundaries of the poles. For those who know how to measure, a course between two concepts may be plotted, and therefore acted upon. Like programming, you can put together formula which when applied returns predictable results. However, you can’t call on a variable if it hasn’t been assigned a value, otherwise it would return an error. Therefore, assigning variables, applying constants, and writing an algorithm allows you to perform “magic”, which is getting more out of a system than was put in.

We see this in all the Systems of Man.

When a man “programs” a dog to herd sheep on his behalf, he did so using variables and constants in an algorithmic practice we in modern terms call Behavioral Conditioning. You, basically, condition a dog to expect treats when you whistle and he performs a task. Whistling then is the constant, the type of whistle is the variable that works upon that constant. Anything programed, anything we may call a System, utilizes a constant impulse and variations of that impulse to send a message or perform a function.

Morse code, for instance, uses the constants of dashes and dots. That system is formed using those strict constants that are recognizable by anyone familiar with the system of communication. Three dots, a dash, and two dots means the exact same thing to two people who are “initiated” into the system. In other words, they were successfully programmed into doing as they were instructed; they can hear what others who are not “privileged” can not.

Taking it back to the Square and Compass of the Freemason logo, we can now see their truest interpretation. They are the “tools of the trade” which are necessary for programming of Systems of Man. Their logo, as well as all their symbols, are used to clarify to the “initiated” that they alone hold the tools by which to carve stone and build civilizations, which is why they took up the name of Masons. They believe, and not without merit, that one who fully understands the intricacies of the mason artisan profession will have learned all the idiomatic and metaphorical lessons needed to destroy and build civilizations just as one may destroy and build stone structures, which are considered the foundation of any Government.

A Government, in their minds, must be built using the techniques of a mason, a stone carver, so that they may not easily be swept up by the wind or rot like wood; so that they may stand in opposition to Nature as the Rulers over Nature.

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I’ll leave it off there. Next I’ll probably tackle the Freemason Square more directly, but I wanted to clarify some more about the Compass and create a jumping platform into things like the Square, Pillars, Altar, Candles, and how they all relate to one another now that you’ve had time to stew about it all.

Hopefully the addition of other symbols has you thinking about how they are all connected to the principles I demonstrated in Part 1. They all come back to that greater understanding, categorization, and cataloguing of these mysterious “things” that make up our world. Only by knowing how they interact with one another might we devise ways to use them to better the human condition.

At the very least, they aren’t wrong in this way of thinking… Again, if it was all nonsense no one would grab the bait and join their little cults. The best and prettiest lies, after all, are built on truth.