Many of you may have seen last year’s movie National Treasure. Despite one rather glaring problem in the plot, I enjoyed the movie quite a lot. It was relatively clean and it was fun to see Sean Bean, who did a great job as Boromir in The Fellowship of the Ring, play the villain.
The movie got me thinking about masonry and its alleged connection to the founding of the United States, which plays a big part in the film. It is interesting to me that masonic symbolism is often tied to LDS and Utah symbolism. I’ve done a little research into our national symbols and Utah state symbols that you may find interesting. In the case of LDS and Utah symbolism, it helps to dispel some of the alleged connections to masonry, and in the case of our National symbols, it has some interesting implications for the “separation of church and state.”