Freemasonic Templar emblem

[Adam McLean]

It is interesting that some Freemasonic emblems draw so directly from alchemical imagery that it  can be, at first glance, difficult to tell them apart.

This 19th-century manuscript in the Hessian State Archive, Darmstadt, MS HStAD D 4 585/7 is titled:-

Tempelherren (Serie der Ordensmeister und der Hohenpriester, Reflexiones primae et secundae noctis, Eid der Tempelherren, Regeln und Statuten, Tapis des Tempels, Grundriss des Tempels, Zeichnungen)