Of so distinguished a character and Time standing behind her unfolding the Left, that his ashes were there safely deposited to perpetuate the remembrance Open before her, that his virtues there lie on perpetual record the sprig ofĪcacia in her right hand, the timely discovery of his body the urn in her
The broken column denotes the untimely death of our Grand Master HiramĪbiff the beautiful Virgin, weeping, denotes the Temple, unfinished the book It is under an acacia tree that the companions of Muhammad took a pledge of fidelity (known as Ba'ait al-Ridwan - "Pledge of Good Pleasure") to him the day before the signing of the Treaty of Hudaibiya, a treaty which brought about the political victory of Islam throughout Arabia. The acacia, as we have just pointed out, is her sacred tree. Al-Uzza received blood offerings, sacrifices of humans and animals. Meteorites, such as, for instance, the black stone in the Ka'aba ('cube'), are her sacred stones. Green, her sacred color, was adopted by Islam as its own favourite colour. What is less well-known is that an acacia tree, or a cluster of acacia trees, is the symbol of Al-Uzza, an Arabic goddess who rules birth, death, marriage, warfare, raids, the Zodiac, the change of the seasons, the course of heavenly bodies, and Venus as the morning star. Some Freemasons also claim that the crown which Jesus-Christ wore on his crucifixion was made of acacia thorns and his cross made of acacia wood, as part of their bizarre attempt to 'prove' that Jesus Christ was himself a 'Famous Freemason'!
In the Old Testament, from which Masonry also twists much to add to the decoration of its Temples, the Acacia is said to have been used in the building of the Tabernacle and of the Ark of the Covenant. As a matter of fact, in ancient Egypt, from which Masonry claims to have borrowed a large part of its imagery, the thorn of acacia was conceived of as a symbol of the birth-and-death mother-goddess Neith. The sprig of Acacia plays a central part in the third degree ritual a sprig of Acacia is sometimes laid in graves or on caskets at Masonic funerals, and it is also seen on the 14th Degree cordon. Michael the Archangel is the oldest element in the shrine.Acacia is one of the main symbols of Freemasonry, as acknowledged in 'Morals and Dogma' by none other than Albert Pike (who plagerized many of his material from the books of the French magician, Eliphas Levi) : "Masonry still retains among its emblems one of a woman weeping over a broken column, holding in her hand a branch of acacia, myrtle, or tamarisk (.)". The statues of Sts.Peter and Paul reflect the ecclesial and apostolic spirit of the Schoenstatt family. The symbol of the Holy Spirit conveys that the Holy Spirit endowed with fullness of grace and now He adorns the Church with His sevenfold gifts.
The Father Eye symbol points to God’s provident care and love for His children. The Unity Cross shows Christ in his relationships: Christ who, in the strength of the Holy Spirit, is united as the Son with the Father Christ who is deeply united with Mary, his Mother as his permanent helper and associate in his work of redemption. The Latin sentence around the picture “Servus Mariae nunquam peribit“ means “a servant of Mary will never perish.” This promise assures us that we can always find a place in her heart. It is a symbol that she blesses us with her Son. The picture of The Mother Thrice Admirable (MTA) with her Son inside the shrine portrays the close union between Jesus and Mary.
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