The symbolic elements used in the composition of the “Dome Celeste”

Abstract

Better known as Firmament to the general public, the Celestial Dome is defined as the visible celestial hemisphere, whose study belongs to the specific field of astronomy. However this study aims to understand the concept outside the scientific field, through a symbolic reading very singularized, contextualized and interpreted within a discrete society, such as Freemasonry. This work was based on the review of the literature on the subject, the level of symbolic elements, manuals of ritual and historical character of publications, served as the basis for the development of a pictorial composition that came to be performed on the roofs of the two temples Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Grand Lodge of Portugal Regular / Grand Lodge Legal Portugal, in Oporto, in august 2016.