![]() ![]() Additionally, Joyce's personal “numerological” system in Finnegans Wake functions parallel to Freemasonic concerns involving ancient Greek (specifically) Pythagorean “sacred geometry”: imitated in Book II chapter 2's mathematical “lesson” and parodistic transcription of a Euclidian proposition on page 293. An encyclopaedic corpus of religious and mythical allegories exists in the novel, and Masonic symbols and traditions assist immeasurably in forming its architectonic structure. My paper researches how the symbolic system of Freemasonry is alluded to and imitated in Finnegans Wake owing to its all-inclusive symbolic system. ![]() Both Freemasonic and Finnegans Wake symbols derive from a tradition of symbols dating back to time immemorial: originating in paganism and progressing through to the present incorporating ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Judaic, Hindu, and Christian cultural and allegorical meanings. Secondly, using the “ancient method of symbolism” (Albert G. ![]() In Finnegans Wake, Joyce develops his interest in the secret organisation Freemasonry in two respects – in accordance to how moral instructions are taught using two tenets: firstly, by studying allegories taken from a vast range of world religions, ancient and modern. ![]()
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