Question:
Masonic street map of D.C.?
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2010-10-07 15:33:14 UTC
Ok I've read into the street layout of Washington D.C. and how it's suppose to be shaped into Masonic symbols. Regarding the pentagram with the White House being the southern point of Baphomet. What I don't get is Mt.Vernon Square being one of the points making a pentagram. It isn't a circle but a square unlike the rest. How are all significant?
Three answers:
J. R.
2010-10-07 23:19:14 UTC
While the street view of DC relating to significant points can appear to resemble a pentagram star, it in fact really is not. Look closer, lines (streets) are actually missing to complete the supposed pentagram. The total actual street design however is a series of central points- most with 5 radiating streets. So you actually can draw several 5 pointed stars correctly within the street plan, but since these do not tend to have any significant buildings at their points as does the incorrect star of conspiracy fame, they don't get any attention. Simple fact is it was a common design plan and still is based on nothing more than efficiency of movement within a grid.

Aside from that;

1- the pentagram is not a Masonic symbol, it has no meaning or symbolic value within Masonry.



2- Historically, the pentagram has a long history of cultural and religious use (even in the Christian faiths) that debunk its supposed sinister nature many think of today.



3- "Baphomet", the made up creature/deity which Phillip of France invented as part of the persecution of the Templar Knights has no relationship to Masonry, and was never associated as being related to the pentagram until the late 1800's when the artist Levi was commissioned to create an illustration relating the two as part of the Taxil hoax.



4- the man who laid out the street design of DC, Pierre L’Enfant, was not a Mason, Prince Hall or otherwise, and would have no reason to insert symbolic values into a street plan. He simply laid out a grid similar to that which had been widely used in Europe since Roman times.



No relations, no significance, end of story.
kilroymaster
2010-10-07 22:44:27 UTC
If you are a Mason then that information can be found in masonic lore.... For the man that designed Washington was a Prince Hall mason................................
Blundt Cake
2010-10-07 22:36:39 UTC
There's too much to try to explain here but look at this website-- it goes into detail

http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/washington.html


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