Anonymous ID: 7354a6 March 13, 2019, 9:35 a.m. No.5660516   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0531

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The Order of the Eastern Star's principal symbol is the inverted five-pointed star. Each star point represents a different heroine of the Bible and degree of the Order, and each one represents a different virtue: Adah: Adah is the first point; its color is blue, and its symbols are the sword and veil.

Anonymous ID: 7354a6 March 13, 2019, 9:36 a.m. No.5660531   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>5660516

The Star Point Heroines are central to the Order of the Eastern Star and its teachings:

ADAH – DAUGHTER.

RUTH – WIDOW.

ESTHER – WIFE.

MARTHA – SISTER.

ELECTA – MOTHER.

Anonymous ID: 7354a6 March 13, 2019, 9:38 a.m. No.5660577   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Eastern Star Biblical Heroines

 

 

Adah, (Blue), Jephthah's daughter, (from the Book of Judges)

 

Symbol: A sword and shield, symbolizing how she sacrificed her life to save her father's honor.

 

Ruth, (Yellow), the widow

 

Symbol: A sheaf of barley (grain), representative of Ruth, the poor widow in the Bible, who gathered left over barley stalks as her means of survival.

 

Esther, (White), the wife

Symbol: A crown and scepter. Queen Esther was a great and noble spirited biblical queen, known for her willingness to sacrifice her life for her people.

 

Martha, (Green) , Lazarus's sister, (from the Gospel of John)

 

Symbol: The broken column, symbolic of the uncertainties in life.

 

Electa, (Red) , the mother, (the "elect lady", friend of St. John, from II John)

 

Symbol: The cup, symbolic of charity and hospitality. Her color, red, is symbolic of love. She accepted God's will in spite of persecution.

 

Inside the center of the star, a pentagram (5-sided figure) with an altar is the logo's focal point. The open book upon the altar signifies obedience to God's word.

 

 

Each of the 5 points of the star are represented by a woman who represents that character within the lectures.

 

Each woman is dressed in a costume, symbolic of which of the 5 heroines she represents.

 

Each of these biblical characters share a lesson in the Masonic virtues:

 

(From Mackey's Revised Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, page 303, copyright 1929)

 

Adah - Respect to the binding force of a vow

Ruth - Devotion to religious principles

Esther - Fidelity to kindred and friends

Martha - Undeviating faith in the hour of trial

Electa - Patience and submission under wrong

 

End of descriptions from Mackey's Revised Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry