At 03:11 PM 8/6/98 -0800, Suz wrote:
>>Take a look at the back of a one-dollar bill -- notice the pyramid with
>>the separate "top" and "eye" -- anyone here know the origin/metaphor?
>>Apparantly, this represents Owners at the top and all the worker bees
>>below ... also is a metaphor that is thousands of years old -- and that
>>will be effectively broken when/if the Net (and other technologies)
>>succeed in empowerment and breaking the hierarchical organization.
>
>
>My vague understanding was that the pyramid and eye were metaphysical
>symbols derived from our founding fathers' involvement in either the Masons
>or the Rosacrucians. In general, the Great Pyramid represents spiritual
>attainment and the eye would represent insight or the gift of inner vision.
>Regrettably, I have no further details with regard specifically to the
>founding fathers.
Close. Check out http://thelonious.mit.edu/Mason/Essays/eyepyr.html for a
Masonic explanation.
Tom Fosson
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