Is the eye and pyramid a masonic symbol?
No. Of the four men involved in designing the USA seal in 1776, only Benjamin Franklin was a freemason, and he contributed nothing of a masonic nature to the committee s proposed design for a seal. The committeemen were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, with Pierre Du Simitiere as artist and consultant.1 Du Simitiere, the committee s consultant, and a non-mason, contributed several major design features that made their way into the ultimate design of the seal: “the shield, E Pluribus Unum, MDCCLXXVI, and the eye of providence in a triangle.”2 Congress declined the first committee s suggestions as well as those of its 1780 committee. Francis Hopkinson, consultant to the second (1782) committee, used an unfinished pyramid in his design. Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress, and William Barton, artist and consultant, borrowed from earlier designs and sketched what at length became the United States Seal. None of the final designers of the seal William Baron, Charles T
