labehotierre@wanadoo.fr writes:
> The various symbols were adopted by modern Freemasons by copying the past.
> How many other places can the symbols of Freemasonry be found? Many contend
> that Washington DC is Masonic in design. Americans live their daily lives
> surrounded by Masonic symbols. Many have no idea what they mean.
With this much I agree.
>
> In 'Star Trek's Telly series Mr Spock uses the two sets of fingers of the
> Masonic hand shake as the Vulcan salute (The Pass grip?).
Umm, not one w/ which I'm familiar.
The pilot episode > first ship's Captain was Christopher Pike. Albert Pike; a
> Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan was a 33rd degree
> Mason.
Actually, there is no more proof of Pike's purported Klan membership than the
secrets of the Essenes being buried at Rosslyn. See
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/discredited.html
Glen Cook