What are the key symbols associated with Adoniram in Freemasonry?

Adoniram possesses no symbols or symbolic role in the three degrees of the lodge. The central architect of Craft tradition is Hiram Abiff, while Adoniram's symbolic appearances belong entirely to additional degrees and higher rites 1.

Where Adoniram does feature as a symbolic figure—such as in Cryptic Masonry, the Mark Master degree, or French Adonhiramite Masonry—his role is defined by legends specific to those rites 121. In continental Adonhiramite Masonry, an attempt was made to substitute Adoniram in place of Hiram Abiff as Master Architect, but Arthur Edward Waite notes that this was an arbitrary modification that introduced confusion and did not form part of authentic Craft Masonry 1. Similarly, his associations with the inspection of timber on Mount Lebanon or the erection of monuments belong to side degrees such as Secret Master and Perfect Master rather than the three Craft degrees 1.

Within the Craft degrees, Adoniram remains strictly an historical Biblical figure placed over the tribute rather than a carrier of lodge symbolism 1.