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In this installment of Symbols and Symbolism, we explore the

origins of the Latin phrase ordo ab chao better known as order out
of chaos. Often taken as an esoteric alliteration of transformation,
the source of this oft used Latin phrase has its roots deeply
embedded in the origin story of the Scottish Rite in the Americas.

While philosophically esoteric, the phrase holds closer to the literal

movement from darkness into light, with the formation of the
Scottish Rite at Charleston.

Mackey, in his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, describes the phrase, thus:

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A Latin expression, meaning Order out of Chaos. A motto of the Thirty-third Degree, and
having the same allusion as lux e tenebrious (this Latin phrase belongs to the Latin
translation of the Gospel of John: “et lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non
conprehenderunt,” meaning “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not
comprehend it”). The invention of this motto is to be attributed to the Supreme Council of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at Charleston, and it is rst met with in the Patent of
Count Alexandre Francois Auguste de Grasse, dated February 1, 1802. When De Grasse
afterward carried the rite over to France and established a Supreme Council there, he
changed the motto, and, according to Lenning in his Encyclopedia of Freemasonry 1822 or
1828, Ordo ab hoc, Order Out of This, was used by him and his Council in all their documents.

The phrase appears on the grand decorations of

the Order of the Sovereign Grand Inspectors
General. The decoration rests on a Teutonic Cross
which sits below a nine-pointed star, formed by
three triangles of gold, one upon the other, and
interlaced. From the lower part of the left side
toward the upper part of the right extends a sword,
and, in the opposite direction, a hand of Justice. In
the middle is the shield of the Order, blue; upon the
shield is an eagle like that on the banner; on the
dexter side of the shield is a golden balance, and
on the sinister a golden compass resting on a
golden square. Around the whole shield runs a
stripe of blue, lettered in gold with the Latin words ” ORDO AB CHAO;” and this stripe is
enclosed by a double circle formed by two serpents of gold, each holding his tail in his mouth.
Of the smaller triangles formed by the intersection of the principal ones, those nine that are
nearest the blue stripe are coloured red, and on each is one of the letters that constitute the
word S. A. P. I. E. N. T. I. A.

You can read more installments of Mackey’s Encyclopedia under Symbols & Symbolism here
on this site and video of these segments on YouTube.

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About Greg Stewart

A devoted student of the Western Mystery Traditions, Greg is a rm believer in the
Masonic connections to the Hermetic traditions of antiquity, its evolution through the
ages and into its present con guration as the antecedent to all contemporary esoteric and occult
traditions. He is a self-called searcher for that which was lost, a Hermetic Hermit and a believer in
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