laurel

The laurel does not carry a defined symbolic meaning within the three degrees of the lodge. Where the symbol appears in Masonic literature, it belongs to appendant bodies and additional degree systems rather than the Craft itself.

A laurel crown forms part of the insignia of the Order of the Amaranth 1, an adoptive organization, while ceremonial crowning with laurel is recorded in historical research on additional degree systems such as the Rite of Seven Degrees, as presented in a paper read before Quatuor Coronati Lodge. The available sources offer no account of the laurel as a symbol, tool, or emblem in Craft Masonry.