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Anonymous ID: 6592db Dec. 7, 2024, 10:42 a.m. No.22124917   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4925

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“Mosaic work consists properly of many little stones of different colors united together in patterns to imitate a painting. It was much practiced among the Romans, who called it musivum, whence the Italians get their musaico, the French their mosaique, and we our mosaic. The idea that the work is derived from the fact that Moses used a pavement of colored stones in the tabernacle has been long since [explored] by etymologists. The Masonic tradition is that the floor of the Temple of Solomon was decorated with a mosaic pavement of black and white stones. There is no historical evidence to substantiate this statement. Samuel Lee, however, in his diagram of the Temple, represents not only the floors of the building, but of all the outer courts, as covered with such a pavement. The Masonic idea was perhaps first suggested by this passage in the Gospel of St. John (xix. 13), ‘when Pilate, therefore, heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment-seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.’ The word here translated Pavement is in the original Lithostroton, the very word used by Pliny to denote a mosaic pavement. The Greek word, as well as its Latin equivalent, is used to denote a pavement formed of ornamental stones of various colors, precisely what is meant by a mosaic pavement.

 

“There was, therefore, a part of the Temple which was decorated with a mosaic pavement. The Talmud informs us that there was such a pavement in the conclave where the Grand Sanhedrim held its sessions.

 

“By a little torsion of historical accuracy, the Masons have asserted that the ground floor of the Temple was a mosaic pavement, and hence, as the Lodge is a representation of the Temple, that the floor of the Lodge should also be of the same pattern. …”

Anonymous ID: 6592db Dec. 7, 2024, 10:53 a.m. No.22124966   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4988

Carlos Tavares is out as CEO of Stellantis, capping an almost four-year run as head of the company that owns Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, Dodge and Fiat.

Tavares’ resignation was announced Sunday in a company news release.

The timing of the announcement came as a surprise, though Tavares' departure was planned in a year.