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What is the meaning of the chequered pavement?
The chequered or mosaic pavement, met with in the earliest eighteenth-century rituals, represents the ground floor of King Solomon's Temple and is classed among the ornaments of the lodge alongside the indented tassel and the blazing star. Its origin is also traced to Gabbatha, the paved room of ornamental square stones where the Sanhedrim met.
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What is tassel
The indented or tesselated border surrounding the chequered pavement is read by Wilmshurst as representing Divine Presence and Providence, which surrounds and embraces temporal human existence and its inherent dualities. In this interpretation, while the black and white floorwork symbolizes the dualistic world of opposing forces—such as light and dark, good and evil—the surrounding border represents the divine enclosure encompassing those opposites.
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