Foundation Symbol

The symbol of the Foundation

-its origins and meanings.

As with all things from which this Order has been developed, our symbols were provided by what persons of the world would call spiritual revelation. The fact is that the name was given through meditation and revealed to many persons doing the meditation, as the only name upon which this order could be established. Every one who entered into meditation came up with the same information, and in fact could not be persuaded to change it when questioned. God would not change her mind in the least once she had spoken. I say this in humor, but there is a mystical reality to the feminine aspect of God which the churches have failed to understand. The fact is that I told the members to do the meditation, and when the name came up, and they wanted to me to hold the title of Spiritual Director of the Order of Melchizedek, I did my best to convince them to use another name because I felt that it was a title beyond human expression and could not be filled by a mortal human being. I asked them to meditate seeking another name, because I did not want that title. They did, and came back more convinced than ever to use the name they were given, and I had to relent to their wishes, because I was the one who asked them to meditate on it in the first place.
Moving forward to when the Order was becoming an official Not for Profit organization in Niles Illinois, and classes and Sunday Communion services were being attended. It was during the communion services when and where the symbols first began to appear. The women and men attending not only began to see visitations of Mary and Jesus, feeling their presence, but told me of the symbols that they were shown, in discussions after the services had been held. The man attending (a brother Master Mason) told me of the cross of the Knights of Malta that appeared in purple, and drew a picture of it for me. The women had repeated experiences of seeing either a Gold or Blue star of David, and also told me they were seeing a Blue unfolding rose. These symbols were later envisioned as interlacing one another, as a composite of the three, and were accepted as the symbol of the Order in its begining stages.
The history of the Cross of the Knights of Malta had been described in detail while being initiated into the degrees of the York Rite of Freemasonry while working my way to the 32nd degree, and prior to becoming a 32nd degree Master Mason in the Scottish Site. Having been sworn under oath not to reveal the secrets of the lodge, I am not a liberty to discuss that information presently, but it may easily be found in libraries or one other web sites. The history of the use of that particular cross as a symbol came after a great display of courage while the temple of the Knights of Malta was under siege, and if memory serves me correctly it was not only the Knights themselves but the members of the stone mason craft who fought beside the knights, using the tools of their trade in hand to hand combat with the enemies who were attacking. They were able to rally and fend off the attackers and preserve their lives and freedom, and the fortress they had built driving the attackers off the Island. The color purple is one of the royal colors depicting high spiritual contact, and the color of the 9th sphere in the symbol of the tree of life from the Qabalah. The Song of Solomon refers to a chariot he made himself, '"He covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughter's of Jerusalem." When Jesus was being mocked and scourged, the centurions they clothed him in purple robe and placed a crown of thorns upon his head to hail him as king of the Jews.
The Star of David or Seal of Solomon is also relative to the tribe of Judah from whom David, Solomon, and Jesus shared the blood line as the masculine aspect of the Priesthood of Melchizedek and lion hearted men of the tribe of Judah." The scepter shall not depart the nor a law giver from between thy paws till ShiLoh come, and unto thee Judah shall the gathering of the people be. (In the last days, which are now.) The star forms two triangles, as above so below, and has been used as a symbol for the law of prayer. What is conceived in mind and heart in the ascending triangle, descends into matter as the answered prayer, taking the form set in the unseen and reproducing it as the seen manifested in the physical world.
The blue unfolding Rose is something that has never been able to become manifest in nature. It is found in the ancient Hebrew traditions as a the highest aspect of the mother, or feminine principal. Having been trained the Rosicrucian (rose Cross) traditions where the red unfolding rose is set at the center of the cross we have a slightly different aspect of what the unfolding rose signifies because red is a color of activity, passion and blood, but the blue is of the aspect of the divine mother of the heavens. Mary is often pictured as cloaked in blue with a white garment beneath. The Light blue color is the feminine aspect of God, whereas the deep blue is the masculine aspect. Some things just come to us out of the blue, and we don't know why, but they are always inspirational and inventive. We have herein depicted at the very center of our symbols the unfoldment of the inner feminine aspect of the heavens.
We cannot possibly provide all of the meanings of the symbols, but meditation upon them places one in the frame of mind from whence the meanings came, as written into existence by the grand designer and architect of the universe.

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