Freemasonry Signs with Jewish Origins(Through Peirce’s Semiotic Model)

Author:
Seyyed Amin Shamaei
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Abrahamic Religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2015
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Fatemeh Tofighi
Advisor(s):
Ali Shahbazi

Freemasonry is an ancient male society, having secret methods of recognition, teaching by symbolism a moral philosophy based upon Monotheism and inculcating the brotherhood of man and belief in immortality. Training at this society is companion with following of morality, faith and truth. Semiotics is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign processes and meaningful communication.This includes the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication.Two French and American schools are studding on this new approach. Judaism is a religion which has established upon a temple and then that temple were destructed. So this can be predictable that signs can be in charge of transforming the Jewish identity and culture in a way which is mass in space. Judaism for its survival had to produce a lot of signs. Freemasonry also acts very secretively transmits its doctrines through signs. Freemasonry has more than two hundred signs and definitely has adopted nine signs from Judaism. Function of three signs in Judaism and freemasonry is the same, one is in contrast and five signs don’t have function in Judaism and just freemasonry is working with that physically. If we suppose that freemasonry have two hundred signs and just nine signs have Jewish origin it means that 0/045 percent of freemasonry signs have Jewish origin.