The Square and Compass: Masonic Tools, How Many Know How to Use
Them? By Fahim A. Knight-EL The Square and Compass, these are
truly fascination tools, (conventional, mystical and enigmatic)
perhaps as symbols they are often associated and identifiable
with the Speculative Masonic Sciences which is the philosophical
framework of Freemasonry. The Masonic Historian Allen E. Roberts
gives us an account of a manufacturing company that applied for
a corporate patent with the U.S. Patent office and was denied
the use of the Square and Compass, as its corporate logo. This
legal precedence would forever assign the interlaced Square and
Compass as a symbol belonging to Freemasonry, at least within
the United States. But since that time, the symbol has almost
become universally accepted as a Masonic emblem. .” (Reference:
Allen E. Roberts; “The Craft and its Symbols: Opening the Door
to Masonic Symbolism”). This is what Roberts wrote in his book
titled, "The Craft and its Symbol: Opening the Door to Masonic
Symbolism" s