What are the symbols found on the Third Degree Tracing Board?

The Master Mason's degree features several emblems associated with its tracing board, carpet, and lecture. The three steps delineated on the Master's Carpet symbolically represent the three stages of human life: youth, manhood, and old age 1. William S. Rockwell highlights a specific tracing board depiction featuring a cubic stone with an axe driven into it 1.

Lecture emblems closely tied to the degree include the sprig of acacia—symbolizing immortality, innocence, and faith 21—alongside the Anchor and Ark, the Scythe of time, the All-Seeing Eye, and the 47th Problem of Euclid 2.

In Cagliostro's Hermetic system of "Egyptian Masonry," which diverges from standard Craft practice, the third tracing board instead depicts Time deprived of his scythe, which lies broken at the feet of the Mason 3.