Is the Great Seal of the United States a Masonic symbol?
No. The creation of a seal was first commissioned by the Continental Congress immediately after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. A committee consisting of Benjamin Franklin (a Mason), John Adams (not a Mason), and Thomas Jefferson (not a Mason although sometimes erroneously identified as one) submitted a design that was deemed unacceptable, as were designs submitted by two succeeding committees. In 1782, all these designs were submitted to Charles Thomson, Secretary to the Continental Congress (and not a Mason), who prepared a final design adopted by the Congress on June 20, 1782. What’s with the eye in the pyramid, then? Conspiracy theorists like to point to the “Eye in the Pyramid” in the Great Seal of the United States and on the dollar bill as being evidence of a Masonic conspiracy. But the eye in the pyramid has never been a Masonic symbol. The “Eye of Providence,” sometimes referred to in Masonic ritual as the “All-Seeing Eye” (of Deity) is found in
