Freemasonry : Marseille Masonic temple

Freemasonry, the historic temple, "rue Bedarride" street in Marseille. Symbols of Freemasonry: the cathedral builders' tools (representing the construction's harmony and harshness).: Compasses (open-mindedness) and the set square (rectitude), the sword (keeper of the law and of the flame) and the stone blocks (the raw stone representing the initiated apprentice and the polished sharpened stone representing the apprentice who will replace him in the construction of the temple to erect the building, each man cutting his own stone and finding his place by himself). Freemasons, Grand Lodge, Grand orient, Masonic lodge, Freemasonry, symbolic (Photo by: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)