Bleiglasfenster

Bleiglasfenster / Stained glass windows

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  Wissenschaften und Kunst. This window depicts Engineering, with nods to maritime, aeronautical, mechanical, and civil engineering.

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  Elektrizität. This window depicts Electricity. At the top, electricity is credited for "light, sound, and electric transportation", while the bottom panel describes electricity as "The caveman's terror, civilization's blessing".

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  Bildhauerei. This window depicts Sculpture, with tributes to Michelangelo, the Egyptians, and a classical sculptor.

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  Architektur. This window depicts Architecture, and the background details are amazing. The side borders describe various types of columns, the backgrounds behind the main figures show cathedrals, and the bottom panel shows a Mayan temple and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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  Malerei. This window depicts Painting by showing a painter and his nude model.

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  Musik. These windows depict Music (soothing the savage beast on the right), and if you look at the top of the window, you will see Mozart and Beethoven,

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  Recht und Gesetz. These windows depict the Law, with the Wisdom of the Law on the left and the Power of the Law on the right

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  Medizin. These windows depict Medicine, both in practice and in research (with the skull on the right)

All pictures in this gallery with kindly permission of Sarah. Alle Fotos dieser Galerie mit freundlicher Erlaubnis von Sarah. On the other side of the south lounge at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, there are a series of art glass windows depicting the Arts and Sciences. These windows have a warmer light quality compared to the Masonic Degree windows because the artisans learned to incorporate precious metals (gold and silver) into the glass paints to preserve the true colors after firing.

Die Grade des Schottischen Ritus

In the loggia along one side of the south lounge in the Scottish Rite Cathedral are a series of art glass windows depicting the lessons of several degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. This first pair of windows depict (from left to right):

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  Der Kandidat (welcher bereits den 3. Grad, den des Freimaurermeisters in der blauen Loge der Johannismaurerei haben muss). Der vierte Grad - die Pflicht zur Stille und Verschwiegenheit repräsentiert durch Daniel. Der fünfte Grad - Tue niemandem etwas was Du nicht willst, das man es dir tut. - repräsentiert durch die Stärkung des Wanderers.

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  Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows -- VII, VIII, IX, and X.The next set of Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows depict (from left to right): Seventh Degree -- represented by the judgment of Solomon.

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  Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows -- XI, XII, XIII, and XIV. The third set of Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows depict (from left to right):Eleventh Degree -- Be Earnest, Honest, SIncere -- represented by the herdsman prophet Amos. Twelfth Degree -- Building For The Ages -- represented by Bezaleel the Builder. Thirteenth Degree -- No Task Too Difficult -- represented by Moses before Pharaoh (we all remember "Let my people go", right?). Fourteenth Degree -- Whom Virtue Unites, Death Cannot Separate -- represented by King David

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  Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows -- XV, XVI, XVIII, and XXXII. The fourth set of Scottish Rite Masonic Degree windows depict