PowerMasonic Handshake
Masonic Handshake
Also called: Masonic Grip · Recognition Handshake
A special handshake Freemasons use to recognize one another.In this narrative it is a signal the powerful secretly exchange.
Established facts
Freemasonry has a handshake used to confirm formal membership.It is called the 'grip.' Each of the three degrees, entered apprentice, fellowcraft, and master mason, uses a different grip.Samuel Prichard's 1730 book first exposed it to the public.In an age without identification cards, it served to recognize members from other lodges.It survives today as ceremony within the lodge.
The oil descends from the brain, rests three days in the sacrum, and rises again to awaken in the pineal gland.
In this narrativeA hand raised to the 33rd degree
33rd-degree Freemason Manly P.Hall wrote that a deeper brotherhood exists within1.This picture cites Skull and Bones as an example1.Water changes from ice to liquid between 32 and 33 degrees Fahrenheit1.That number 33 is held to symbolize the spine's 33 segments1.Oil climbs those 33 segments, and enlightenment bursts open at the pineal gland1.
In this narrativeFamous hands
This picture lines up photos of famous people's handshakes as evidence1.Photos of royals, Trump, Obama, and Merkel are placed side by side1.Overlapping fingers or pressing a particular spot are pointed to as the Masonic style1.Photos showing a ring are used as the same kind of evidence1.This picture reads a single handshake as proof of membership1.
In this narrativeThe root called the Knights Templar
Freemasonry's 33rd degree takes the Knights Templar as its root1.There really is a 600-year gap between the two organizations2.The Knights Templar appeared in 1118, and Freemasonry in the early 18th century2.A legend that the persecuted order hid inside stonemason guilds bridges that gap2.
Connected concepts
- The Number 33 →The 33rd degree the grip points to leads into the spine's 33 segments.
- Freemasonry →This handshake itself is read as a mark proving the organization Freemasonry.
- Knights Templar →The Knights Templar are pointed to as the root of the 33rd degree.