Third Eye In The Masonic Triangle

In modern times, famous authors, painters and poets have described the Third Eye and pineal gland as being nothing less than the "lost secret" of Freemasonry.

In his 1918 book, The Wonders of the Human Body, Dr. George Washington Carey tells us

"…the All-seeing eye… This is the eye of freemasonry, the third eye. While I am credibly formed that few Masons understand their own symbols, the fact remains that they use them…"
Dr. George Washington Carey, The Wonders of the Human Body

In her fascinating 1924 book,

Mystic Americanism, the obscure American author Grace Morey explained:

"The All-Seeing Eye… also emblematic of the pineal gland or third eye of the human being… has been found amid the ruins of every civilization upon the globe, thereby attesting the fact of a universal

religion over all the earth at some remote period.

As we now restore this universal religion, we set the All-Seeing eye upon the pyramid."
Grace Morey

Mystic Americanism

It comes as no surprise, then, that pine cones appear regularly throughout Masonic decoration.

They are depicted in Masonic art, they hang from the ceilings of Masonic Lodges, and they are etched in stone on Masonic-constructed buildings throughout the world.

A large Masonic design on the side of the Whitehall Building in the New York Financial District depicts

two enormous intertwining snakes spiraling up to a pinecone (which is striking similar to the Staff of Osiris).

Above: A caduceus depicting a pine cone appears on the Whitehall Building in New York City.

Pine cones also adorn ritual instruments used by Freemasons inside Masonic lodges:

"The tops or points of the [Masonic] rods of deacons are often surmounted by a pine-cone or pineapple.

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Albert Mackey

"Operative Masonry, in the fullest meaning of that term, signifies the process by which the Eye…is opened.

E.A. Wallis Budge has noted that in some of the papyri illustrating the entrance of the souls of the dead into the judgment hall of Osiris the

deceased person has a pine cone attached to the crown of his head.

The Greek mystics also carried a symbolic staff, the upper end being in the form of a pine cone, which was called the thyrsus of Bacchus. In the human brain there is a tiny gland called the pineal body,

which is the sacred eye of the ancients, and corresponds to the third eye of the Cyclops.

Little is known concerning the function of the pineal body, which Descartes suggested (more wisely than he knew) might be the abode of the spirit of man.

As its name signifies,

the pineal gland is the sacred pine cone in man - the eye single…"
Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

The Third Eye has been hidden in plain sight in the West, masked as the term "all seeing eye" and superficially said to be the eye of the Jewish deity.

For this

reason, Masons refer to it as the "all-seeing eye of God", when in reality it's the awakened Third Eye

Masonic Lodge, Prague 18th Century,

depicting a Third Eye inside a luminous triangle.

The term "all-seeing eye" in and of itself is indeed correct; but it's not the all-seeing-eye of the Hebrew 'God'; it is the all-seeing eye of you, the pineal gland that we all have.

Many highly trained and educated Masons who lived during the 20th century, including several noted authors and scholars, were convinced that the all-seeing Eye was not the Eye of the Bible's God, and that the modern system of Freemasonry we've inherited, based on the Hebrew

Bible, is in fact corrupted.

It is interesting to note that the famous American Author and Freemason Mark Twain, writing in 1899, referred to the All Seeing Eye not as the Eye of some distant heavenly deity or "old man upstairs," but as a tangible gift that any person can use:

"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the 'all seeing eye' pierces through, and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect."

Interestingly, there is evidence that Hitler was aware of and understood pine cone symbolism.

One of the front panels on his desk displays clear pine cone symbolism:

Picture of Hitler's desk. See the Left panel.
A deity is flanked by staffs at the end of which are a pine cone.

Adolf Hitler believed in the Third Eye. This fact is affirmed by Hermann Rauschning, the former National Socialist Senate President of Danzig.

In Hitler Speaks (London, 1939), Rauschning wrote:

"To have 'magic insight' was apparently Hitler's idea of the goal of human progress… There was the eye of the Cyclops, or median eye, the organ of magic perception of the Infinite, now reduced to a rudimentary pineal gland.

Speculations of this sort fascinated Hitler, and he would sometimes be entirely wrapped up in them."
Hermann Rauschning

It seems that, almost 100 years ago, Hitler knew things about the Third Eye that most Americans are only now starting to rediscover.

The Third Eye can be seen above the French Declaration of Human Rights in a 1789 painting, and is on the back of the one dollar bill; it floats above an Egyptian pyramid, itself a clear and obvious Masonic image:

Left: The Third Eye in the triangle is visible above the French Declaration of Human Rights.

Right: The Third Eye in the triangle above a truncated pyramid

on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States.

Is it possible, then, that the pineal gland has been overlooked in Western society intentionally, so as to rob the masses of its power?

Is it possible that the Third Eye is the lost secret of authentic Freemasonry, lost at some point in the mid 1800s?