Tau
(Heb.)
That which has now become the square Hebrew letter tau, but was ages before the invention of the Jewish alphabet, the Egyptian handled cross, the crux ansata of the Latins, and identical with the Egyptian ankh. This mark belonged exclusively, and still belongs, to the Adepts of every country. As Kenneth R. F. Mackenzie shows, “It was a symbol of salvation and consecration, and as such has been adopted as a Masonic symbol in the Royal Arch Degree ”. It is also called the astronomical cross, and was used by the ancient Mexicans — as its presence on one of the palaces at Palenque shows — as well as by the Hindus, who placed the tau as a mark on the brows of their Chelas. (TG).
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Shortly: That which has now become the square Hebrew letter tau, but was ages before the invention of t...