Seen affixed to the rear of a vehicle at an airport parking lot last week: these symbols. Sorry for the poor-ish image quality.
What do these mean? Are they all branches of the same overall organization, or sequential logos over time? Is the fact that there are several of them significant?
And was I wrong to follow the vehicle to its destination and kill the driver as a suspected Master of the Illuminati? Need answer fast.
The end ones are Masonic. Dunno about the other two.
They are Masonic, and the car belongs to someone fairly high up in the organization. The second one indicates that the driver is a Shriner. You can find the other badges here.
Those particular symbols are all Masonic, yes.
From the left, the compass, square, and “G” is symbolic of the Blue Lodge, the basic Masonic unit. The curved-moon suspended by a scimitar with a star at the bottom is the Shriners’ symbol. The five-pointed star refers to the Oder of the Eastern Star, an appendant Masonic organization. And the final five-pointed star on the right, with the “G”, compass, and square in the middle, indicates that one of the car’s owners is a Past Patron of his local Order of the Eastern Star chapter.
Yes, they’re all Masonic. The first is the square and compass, known as the “Blue Lodge” emblem; the second is a Shriner’s emblem, the third is the Eastern Star, the women’s variant on the Masons, and the fourth represents a patron of the Eastern Star. I am not involved with Masonry so a Masonic Doper could tell you what the symbolism represents, or you could Google it.
Your conscience is your own.
EDIT: Wow. Everybody post at once, whynt’cha.
I’m not a Mason either (I’m a Knight of Columbus) but isn’t the Order of the Eastern Star co-ed?
Yes, I didn’t state that correctly. Eastern Star is the one that women can join, I should have said.
It’s co-ed but it’s totally the Ladies’ Auxiliary in the sense that to join if you’re a woman you have to have a husband or father or something in the Masons.
They keep trying to recruit me but a) I’m agnostic, b) I seriously don’t need another thing to bring a covered dish to, and c) they’re all as old as Methuselah’s grandmother around here. They’re very nice ladies, though. Do a lot of charity work.
Thanks y’all.
How can you tell, and what does this mean exactly?
Well, he’s a Shriner, which you used to could only do if you’d gone all the way through York or Scottish Rite, and also that Past Patron of the Eastern Star thing - he’s really into it, puts a lot of work in it, probably has been active for a long time.
Do you have to be a Mason to view that last link? Because all I’m getting is a white screen.
Try this one.
Racheted up your paranoia a bit this morning, didn’t I? 
Still blank. It’s 'cause I’m a girl, isn’t it?
Huh. It worked the first time, too. At least for me. I guess the company really does know who should be there and who shouldn’t!
http://www.klitzner.com/list.php?category=Auto%20Emblems|Die%20Struck
What’s the relationship between Shriners and Masons?
As in, all Shriners are Masons, but not all Masons are Shriners, or something?
To become a Shriner you have to attain the rank of Master Mason, which is the 3rd and highest degree of Blue Lodge Freemasonry. (Other orders have higher degrees, such as Scottish Rite which goes from 4 to 33.)
Used to be you had to be Scottish or York Rite to join the Shrine, but I think they’ve done away with that and it’s open to all Master Masons now. Due to the lack of either emblems on that vehicle I suspect the owner isn’t currently in either of those.
Currently all Shriners are indeed Masons, but not all Masons are Shriners. When I went through the ranks it was Blue Lodge for 1st through 3rd degrees, Scottish Rite (as I couldn’t take one of the York Rite oaths) for 4th through 32nd, then the Shrine. About half the people I started with as an Entered Apprentice actually made it through to a Master Mason, then maybe half of them went on to York or Scottish Rite, all of us went into the Shrine immediately but at least half have dropped out of one of the appendant organizations.
Are you able to elaborate on why, or is that one of those Masonry “things”?
Asked out of genuine curiosity, not hostility to Freemasonry. I think hostility to Freemasonry is silly…as a secret society, they’re more into the charity dinners and funny little cars than the kidnapping of unbaptized children to render their fat into flying potions, which puts them on the right side of things, anyway…
Why not?
-FrL-
Didn’t think anyone would actually be interested, but since I’m not one I can’t give away any secrets -
The York Rite is a Christian outfit, at the bare minimum (I’m told) one must be willing to swear to defend the Christian faith. I’m more likely to attack the Christian faith, but I’m not now nor have I ever been an oath-breaker. Druids take that kind of thing seriously, so I’ve never been tempted to investigate York past that one requirement.
