What are the symbols found in the Chamber of Reflection?
The Chamber of Reflection does not belong to standard English Craft Masonry, existing instead in the French and Scottish Rites and certain higher-degree bodies 1.
Where the chamber is employed prior to initiation in those Rites, its furnishings are described generally as gloomy emblems in a somber setting, designed to foster solitude, serious reflection upon future undertakings, and contemplation of mortality 1. The library sources for Craft Masonry do not provide an itemized list of symbols for the chamber, as the room is not part of regular Craft practice 1.
In Cagliostro's Rite of Egyptian Masonry, the candidate placed in the Chamber of Reflection was set to contemplate a picture depicting a great pyramid with a cave at its base, guarded by an old man representing Time 2. Beyond these high-degree and Continental practices, the supplied sources contain no inventory of symbols for the Craft degrees.
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