Are different styles of hourglasses - like ones with wings - Masonic symbols?
The winged hourglass features as a Masonic symbol on nineteenth-century Master's charts and carpets used as teaching aids for lodge instruction, as an article on The Square Magazine's website points out. In Masonic emblems and representations of mortality, the hourglass is depicted alongside Father Time or winged Time, while an upturned hourglass together with winged Time appears as a symbolic representation within specific rites, as an article on The Square Magazine's website records.
The library's printed sources contain no direct commentary on the specific variations or historical evolution of the hourglass symbol in Craft Masonry.
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