Pillars or Columns hold and always have held, a very definite and important place in our Masonic system, and not only in the Masonic Symbolism, but in the symbolism of all the mysteries of the past.
The origin of the pillar is lost in the mists of time and the pillar is common to peoples in every part of the world. The Aztecs in South America.
The peoples of India. The Phoenecians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans.
The people of Israel and even our Christian civilization have these pillars embodied in their architecture.
