正面
正面的文字 ALBERT PIKE SOV :. COMM :. GR COMM S.M.U. / 1809 - 1891.
正面的说明书 Portrait face droite.
背面
背面的文字 3° GRADO MAESTRO / LIBERO MURATORE / MORALS AND DOGMA 1870.
背面的说明书 Plein champ, sur fond de peau de cuir, écusson représente sur partie gauche accès au Temple par les sept marches, soleil rayonnant ; sur la droite crâne et tibias croisés, gouttes de sang, équerre maillet et ciseau croisés. Rameaux de chaque coté. Au dessus Delta radiant, au bas tel un bijou suspendu, compas et équerre entrecroisés. Signé O. P..
历史细节
FREEMASONRY
The compass and the square are very often associated in an ambivalent symbol of balance: fixity and mobility, passive and active, matter and spirit.. The compass is the tool of the Creator and of the great Architect of the Universe. The spacing of the branches of the compass obeys precise rules and varies according to the three degrees: apprentice, companion, master. The Napoleonic era, in the activity of lodges as in that of many groups, saw a flowering after the terrible years of the revolutionary period. Masonic activity, rid of its republican theories and firmly controlled by a Grand-Master appointed by the Emperor, experienced a vigor in unity never found since.. It is considered that each regiment, each garrison, each city had its Lodge. The testimonies that the sumptuous tokens of the period leave us show that these lodges were rich and influential.. The symbolism is sought after, without comparison with the later eras, which were much more conventional, even bland or destitute at the beginning of the 20th century.. Freemasonry had more than a thousand lodges spread over one hundred and thirty departments and more than sixty thousand Brothers.