Masonic Golden Globe & Cross Fob

The Golden Globe and Cross Fob represents the pinnacle in geometric design and craftsmanship for Masonic jewellery. In its closed position it looks very much like a "Ballot Ball" that one would use during Masonic voting, however, by an ingenious arrangement of hinges, which are imperceptible from the exterior, it may be opened out into the form of a cross. Each section is pyramidal in shape with a spherical base. The base is gold, but the pyramids are oxidized silver, almost black, the emblems being engraved into pure silver, thus showing up white. The symbolism of the whole is explained below. It must be noted that the explanations are Christian, and therefore not applicable to all systems of Freemasonry. They would, however, be perfectly valid in the jurisdictions of the Grand National Lodge, or the Mother Lodge of the Three Globes.

They have become very sought after and their collectability has made them expensive to acquire.

Golden Globe - Closed

Golden Globe - Opened

Cross

Symbolism on the Golden Globe

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Explanation of the Cruciform Arrangement of St. John's Lodge Emblems contained in the golden Globe:

1st Row (to be read from West to East)

"The Conception of God"

1st Square

Compasses God's omnipotence is visible everywhere

Sun and Moon The heaven's show forth His glory, one day declares it to be another

Plumb-line His power descends from above to the whole of the earth

2nd Square

Level and spreads over the surface of the world

Two columns Rising and setting are His work

Delta and show us there must be a divine existence

3rd Square

Cross & Cabletow The true and first perception of Him has come to us through Christ.

4th Square

Gavel Through him we learn the proper government of the moral as well as the physical world

Blazing Star Thus He appears as the paternal Creator

Hexagonal Star as the merciful, beneficent, preserver of the world

Square and as the everlasting, all-righteous God

2nd Row (to be read from North to South)

"The Way From Darkness to Light"

(The moral evolution in virtue of the conception of God.)

1st Square

Rough Ashlar The natural man who, being ignorant, has to learn by the spirit of God

Tesselated pavement but is still His child, capable of development by the divine light that dwells within him

Seven steps by patient perseverance in well doing, and thus ennobling himself

Trowel he purifies and refines his heart according to the will of the Great Architect

2nd Square

Cross and cabletow The real Teacher of the true way of life is the Master of Nazareth

3rd Square

Skull & crossbones who has shown by precept and example, that we can, whilst on earth here, separate the earthly from the heavenly

Acacia and who has brought life

Perfect Ashlar and eternal existence to all.

Note

The above is not the doctrine of a particular Lodge, but of Freemasonry in general

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The Golden Globe and Cross FOB represents the pinnacle in geometric design and craftsmanship for Masonic jewellery. In its closed position it looks very much like a "Ballot Ball" that one would use during Masonic voting, however, by an ingenious arrangement of hinges, which are imperceptible from the exterior, it may be opened out into the form of a cross. Each section is pyramidical in shape with a spherical base. The base is gold, but the pyramids are oxidized silver, almost black, the emblems being engraved into pure silver, thus showing up white. The symbolism of the whole is explained below. It must be noted that the explanations are Christian, and therefore not applicable to all systems of Freemasonry. They would, however, be perfectly valid in the jurisdictions of the Grand National Lodge, or the Mother Lodge of the Three Globes. They have become very sought after and their collectability has made them expensive to acquire.

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