Masonic Symbols 101: The Square and the Grid

The Square, the Compass, and a game of Chess

In Part 2 of the Compass I discussed the component of the Freemason logo which is referred to as the compass and how it is used to perform all sorts of operations, or programs, by which one could relate two concepts to one another to find new dynamics. These dynamics can then be given a name to forever distinguish them from all other ideals, concepts, or things that can be perceived or conceived by the mind of Man. This logic is the basis for the creation of new terms, and is necessary for language to form and adapt as Humanity treks onwards into the void and brings back great wonders from the unknown.

In other words, a compass is a tool which can be use to compare the distances between two points. It is a tool designed to both find relationships by means of variability and propagate/replicate those relationships outwards from the origin. Think of it more like an octopus tentacle stretching out from the body to test the waters and put a feeler out into the dark unknown to scout for information. Once it finds purchase, the octopus then drags itself to where the tentacle’s tip had scouted.

As I said before, the Compass represents the concept of a variable — something whose value changes, or rather, can be modularly interchanged and assigned new values depending on the purpose at hand, or tentacle in this case.

The Square, then, represents the Constant, the unchanging origin, or the body, of that octopus which puts out its feelers. The Square defines the starting point and the rules by which all other measurements can relate to. Until we have a unit of measurement, everything is relative to one another as a completely ethereal idea. For example, how many strawberries can you fit in a bucket? Well, your instinctual answer is a bucket’s worth of strawberries will fit in a bucket. Until you put a distinct number on that observation, called a unit, it is a nebulous thing which means little to nothing. If, however, we determine a bucket holds 100 strawberries we then have a basis for measuring other things relative to both buckets and strawberries. A bucket that holds 100 strawberries may hold 200 blueberries. Therefore, 100 strawberries is equivalent to 200 blueberries in volume. Then, by putting things in the bucket we may then find their value in both strawberries, blueberries, or whatever object as it compares to the bucket. In that sense, the bucket is the rule by which all other objects compare. It is the ruler and measuring device, acting as our Square.

This is the same distinction we use when we determine there are 100 centimeters in a meter or 12 inches in a foot. By knowing how many you can divide one unit into a sum of other units, you may then perform conversion operations.

All these measurements therefore require this “ruler” to keep track of and maintain consistency, which is a reliable form by which all other measurements must “measure up” to in order to determine accuracy and precision. In other words, for a project to work everyone has to be on the same page, and therefore have to have a constant unit of measurement that is not variable between each worker. Everyone’s foot and hand are a different length, so you must procure a tool which has definite divisions that are unchanging and reliable for use by all involved. They must all be identical copies of the original, called instances. Every foot is equal to every other foot, and every inch is equal to every other inch. It can then be said, that for any system to work the rules must be applied fairly and evenly. Allegories to the justice system abound…

As you can see in the Freemason logo, there are nocks on the square portion whose divisions represent the nature of rules and the constancy therein. The 90° of the square provides the namesake of the tool whose primary function is in the finding of perfect corners. These two units together represent a blending of two dimensions — measurements of angle and measurements of distance. Distance, therefore, relates to angle by means of the Square. In other words, it acts as a gateway or portal by which one can convert from one state to another and maintain the origin in both systems.

The Square also allows one to produce a grid, which is made up of infinite corners joining and meshing into one another. Imagine if you were to intermingle all sorts of properties that we used to form comparison squares in Part 1 of the Compass. A grid is the combination of all these ideals. Their organization denotes a greater concept of a unified world of esoteric symbolism. Temperature, sharpness, durability, color; all these are tiles which can mesh together to form a grid which is the vast world in which we operate.

Furthermore, the function of a grid is for the plotting, planning, and organization of the figures within by means of segregation while maintaining a constant relationship to the origin and the rules set by the system. In other words, you can put two objects on a grid in order to see how they “size up” to one another based on the constancy the lines of the grid provide. The grid provides a “platform” by which even comparisons may take place, as an extension of the will of the Square Ruler.

They pave the floor of the lodge in a Grid form to express their role as arbiters in carving up the world, its resources, and to demonstrate authority over all the figures therein like playing an intricate game of chess.

Now, you might have caught on by now how all this relates to monarchies, leadership, and all other sorts of hierarchical pecking orders…

Rulers of Nations

You have a system with a Ruler, who defines Rules by which all Variables are assigned roles. The Ruler has his Court (the Grid) which he calls his subjects so that he may judge, compare, and contrast all that which is placed before him. All these terms are directly comparable and analogues for the system of plotting and graphing necessary for any system, but in particular a system of measurement.

These symbols don’t mean something in a vacuum. They all interact with one another just as the tools of a mason which carves stone must put hammer to chisel in order that the stone be rent in two. Processes, systems, operations are all based upon and within the functions of these tools. The hammer and chisel are both tools on their own, but together form an even greater operation which has its own set of novelties. Names are given to them, as well as the functions they perform together, and those names then can be applied where their dynamic relationships are analogous to other operations in separate, seemingly unrelated, human endeavors. That’s the idea behind the Masonic teachings — that the lessons learned in one craft are relevant in all other crafts so long as the units can undergo a conversion operation.

We call these idiomatic expressions (or more familiarly, metaphors) and they find themselves entering languages because of their frequent relevancy. While we could ascribe names to these concepts, the colorful language used is enough to get the point across, like the saying “try living a day in my shoes”, which has a both literal and figurative interpretation.

Nation building, therefore, is most comparable to the masonic craft, and it can be seen in their tools that they have taken this to heart in the most zealous of ways. Make no mistake, Freemasonry is the art of destroying and building nations. A lodge member is a part of a large network of workers all pecking away at stones that they may then be used to pile up bricks, forming a Tower of Babel for the express purpose of “reaching the heavens” and setting themselves as “gods among chattel.” Whenever they posit questions on how to proceed in any endeavor they necessarily reference the “old ways” that had been taught to them from their masters, in a long lineage of apprenticeship, precisely in the same dynamic fashion a real stone-builder learns “tricks of the trade” from his predecessors.

This lineage system is also the basis for kingmaking and monarchies — rulers of a nation who hand off power to one another in grand ceremonies of succession.

Squaring Up

In summary, the Square is a constant set of rules to which the Freemasons subscribe. Each Mason has in his tool kit a Square which is an instance, a copy, of the original Square. Every member can trace their path of succession on a grid back to the origin point, and the Squares they hold are seen as an equal share of authority, comparable to any other of their peers. So long as they follow the rules etched upon the Square, they will never deviate from the grid, and therefore all their works can be measured and weighed accurately within the system they operate. This is necessary for outcomes to be predictable.

Every square of the grid was propagated using a Compass. Each individual square on a grid, itself, is home to a smaller system in an endlessly fractal pattern of worlds within worlds. Scaling up the grid by representing it in different units allows one, like with the use of a magnifying glass, to peer into the small and the large — the microcosm and the macrocosm.

The Square, then, represents a starting point one can always reference to determine the likelihood of your endeavor’s success. If it doesn’t fit on the grid, if it isn’t square with 90° corners all around, like a brick made all wonky it will not serve in the construction of a wall or any other part of society. Using it to build will result in a weak point that can be exploited.

Using that logic, it is possible to place within walls and structures intentionally wonky and ill-shaped bricks to destabilize the wall. Freemasons understand this, and it is why we see a frequent application of nonsensical ideologies littered among the people and being supported by those in power. They are intentionally flawed bricks which allows the Masons to come in and remove at any point for the subversion and sabotage of nations.

They know Woke ideologies can’t work — they’re counting on that fact. The goal is to destabilize a nation to bring it to ruin. They already control the levers of power, so why would they bother rotting out the support structure if they intended to live in it? The ultimate plan, therefore, is to destabilize the nation, bring it crashing down, and then rebuild it in their own image, using the failed ideologies as a smokescreen to disguise their “new” replacement ideology of authoritarian rule (slavery) as a more approachable alternative to the insanity that came before.

It is for that reason they must control both sides of the aisle. Left, right, liberal, conservative — they’re all following the same orders from the same small group of people. The left is building itself up to be burned in effigy, as a sacrifice, in order to trick people into gleefully accepting anything, no matter what it is, so long as they can escape from literal insanity. It’s only a matter of time before they pull the switch and swing the pendulum towards the other direction.

It can be thought of like this: Communism is when the government controls business while Fascism is when businesses control the government.

Does it matter who controls what if the result is the same — if the same small group of people dictate how everyone else is supposed to live?

The grid, therefore, is found to have white and black squares. White goes first in chess, and represents the Prime Mover. Black is the opposition, the Adversary, which stands as an obstacle. Think of it like holding a large ball in your hands. One hand presses upon the ball in one direction while the other hand presses in the opposite. The ball, then, is held firm between two opposing forces. The Masons, therefore, create the Left and the Right hands to hold the ball, the World, firmly within their grasp.