Corocotta
Active member
I was quite surprised the other day when I read in a book that the US currency had a pyramid with the "All seeing eye" above it. Many people in this forum is from the US, so they probably have noticed this before. I know that this is the symbol of the free masonery, and surfing in the web I founded that some founding fathers were Masons including George Washington, Ben Franklin, and possibly Thomas Jefferson.
Franklin and Jefferson were on the committee assigned to design the great seal. This group produced a design calling for, among other things, an all-seeing eye. While the eye was cool, the design otherwise was pretty feeble, and the job wound up getting dumped on the secretary of the Congress, Charles Thomson. Thomson enlisted the aid of Philadelphian William Barton. The two cooked up the scheme we have today, incorporating the all-seeing eye plus a pyramid, because everybody liked the idea of Egyptian symbolism.
Do some of you know more about this?? I would love to hear your ideas!!
Franklin and Jefferson were on the committee assigned to design the great seal. This group produced a design calling for, among other things, an all-seeing eye. While the eye was cool, the design otherwise was pretty feeble, and the job wound up getting dumped on the secretary of the Congress, Charles Thomson. Thomson enlisted the aid of Philadelphian William Barton. The two cooked up the scheme we have today, incorporating the all-seeing eye plus a pyramid, because everybody liked the idea of Egyptian symbolism.
Do some of you know more about this?? I would love to hear your ideas!!