From its earliest days Speculative Freemasonry has used Emblems, many of them of great interest, to point a moral and to convey a useful and instructive lesson.
List of Old-Time Emblems:
The Beehive, the Trowel, the Key, the Scaffold with Gallows, the Mercury Jewel, the Master's Hat, the Perpend Ashlar, the Broached Thurnal, the Dinted Ashlar, the Common Judge, the Flaming Sword of the Tyler, the Book of Constitutions guarded by the Sword, the Sword and Naked Heart, the Scythe and Hour-glass, the High Hills and Low Vales of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, the Clasped Right Hands, the Gloves, the Hand, the Anchor and Ark, the Rainbow, the Pot of Incense, the Pot of Manna, the Sundial, the Heavy Beetle, Plotting Pins and Setting Level, the Vesica Piscis, the Figures of Women representing Faith, Hope and Charity, and the Figures of Women for the Four Cardinal Virtues.
