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from the perspective of Earth – thus itself alluding
to the pentagram. The pentagram, perhaps due to Bigfork Lodge No. 150
its association with either Pythagoreanism or as an Kindles for Kids
elemental symbol in alchemy, is relatively common as
a Masonic symbol and appears in the appendant body,
the Order of the Eastern Star, as well as the Blazing
Star.

The Star which guided them is that same Blazing
Star, the image whereof we fi nd in all initiations. To
the Alchemists it is the sign of the Quintessence; to the
Magists, the Grand Arcanum; to the Kabbalists, the
Sacred Pentagram. The study of this Pentagram could
not but lead the Magi to the knowledge of the New
Name which was about to raise itself above all names
and cause all creatures capable of adoration to bend
the knee. [Pike, Morals and Dogma, L. H. Jenkins Inc.,
1947, p. 842] Bigfork Lodge # 150 completed the Kindles For
Kids program with the Lakeside Elementary School.
The ‘New Name’ to which Pike refers is almost Shown LeRoy Lau, PM in his 12th year working
certainly that of Jesus (Yahoshuah, Yeshua, Iesous, with the school. Bigfork continues to be an active at
IESV). This was Athanasius Kircher’s Pentagrammaton, the lodge.
which is formed by adding the Hebrew letter Shin to
the Tetragrammaton (YHVH + Sh = YHShVH). From
this perspective, the Blazing Star may be associated
with Jesus. In Revelation 22:16, Jesus states, “I, Jesus,
have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things
in the churches. I am the root and the off spring of
David, and the bright and morning star.” From the
Earth’s vantage point, Venus may appear as much as
47 degrees away from the Sun. At these times, the
planet may be seen just before sunrise as the Morning
Star – Jesus – and just after sunset as the Evening Star.
The pentagram which lead the magi and to which Pike
refers in this passage is almost certainly Venus.

Reprinted from the: Connecticut Freemasons • July/August 2018

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