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Ch. 7: Magic Talismanic Rings

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MAGIC AND TALISMANIC RINGS            331
If, like Apollonius of Tyana,77 anyone should wish to wear on each week day a ring set with the stones especially appropriate to the day, thè following list gives for the successive days the pair of stones whose combination was believed to unite the most favorable planetary and celestial influences:
The use of fraternity rings is often connected with a certain amount of sentiment or even superstition con­cerning their emblematic value. The most important of this type of rings are those worn by the Free Masons.
The greater number of Masonic rings are intended for those Masons who have attained the two highest degrees, the thirty-second and the thirty-third; some, however, are appropriate to those of the lower degrees. The bezels of the Blue Lodge, or Master Mason rings, frequently have the square compasses and the latter G in gold on a background of blue enamel; occasionally emblems and paraphernalia used in the Lodge are enamelled in blue on the gold hoops of the ring. Some­times, instead of enamel, the background is formed of sapphire, bloodstone, or some other stone on which the emblems are encrusted in gold. An example of the ring
77 See p. 296.
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