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110 Amo Amass A-Muse - Lodge of the Nine Muses

and yet the Right-Angled Isosceles Triangle did exist and this depended upon finding this
square root. It is for this reason that our symbol of ‘the All Seeing Eye’, which was also used
in Ancient Egypt, should be placed within a Right-Angled Isosceles Triangle rather than
an Equalateral one. So, there is an Arithmetic Definition for a Square, which is — “The
product of any number multiplied by itself.”
Finally, in the 2nd Century B.C., Euclid wrote his Propositions which not only
proved the reason why the 3-4-5 Triangle formed a Right-Angled Triangle, c.f. his 47th
Proposition, but found several other ways of constructing one.
Thus the Science of Geometry began and, in the Middle-ages, our Operative Brethren,
in their Ancient Charges, stated that they considered the Science of Geometry and
Masonry to be the same thing.
Further dictionary definitions of ‘A Square’ are “An open space in a town” and “A
surface bounded by four equal sides and four equal angles.” Thus, the Square and its
extension, the ‘Rectangle’ are still the plan upon which buildings are constructed, although
some Architects now strive to avoid it.
As our object is to apply our tools to our morals, we should be interested in the last
meaning of a Square, which is a quality rather than the name of a thing. For example
:— Complete, True, Just, Fair, Exact, Honest, Fitting, Unequivocal and Equal. These are all
qualities to which our attention is drawn in Freemasonry.
This Instrument, the Square, has only one use. It measures and proves a Right Angle. In
life there are many directions which we can take, but there is only one Right one, pointed
out to us by the Square.

P.J.D. January 1981