Translation of Some of the American One Dollar Bill’s Signs

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Everyone of us has seen the American one dollar bill. Most of us would wonder what does the symbols on it mean. While I was reading Dan Brown’s book called “Angels and Demons”, I found some of the meanings of some of these symbols. But are they true? Also on wikepedia, I found another translation for the same symbols. The question that is always roaming in my mind “which translation is correct?”.

According to Dan Brown’s book, Robert Langdon, the main character in this book, in his conversation with Vittoria Vetra, the second main character, translates the signs of the American one dollar bill as follows:

“I became fascinated with the cult (illuminati) when I first learned that U.S. currency is covered with illuminati symbology.” Then he adds,” look at the back. See the great seal on the left. The pyramid. Do you know what pyramids have to do with U.S. history?” then he answers,” absolutely nothing. An eerie bit of history. The pyramid is an occult symbol representing a convergence upward, toward the ultimate source of Illumination. See what’s above it?” the woman replied,” an eye inside a triangle”. He answers:” it is called trinacria. It’s emblazoned on Masonic lodges around the world.” The woman says,” the symbol is Masonic?” he answers,”actually, no it is Illuminati. They called it their shining delta. A call for enlightened change. The eye signifies the illuminati’s ability to infiltrate and watch all things. The shining triangle represents the enlightment. And the triangle is also Greek letter delta, which is the mathematical symbol for change.” The woman says,” so you’re saying the U.S. great seal is a call for enlightened, all seeing change?” he replied,” some would call it New World Order. Novus Ordo Seclorum means New Secular Order.” She asks,” Secular is nonreligious?” he replies,” nonreligious. The phrase not only clearly states the illuminati objective, but it also blantaly contradicts the phrase beside it. In God We Trust.”

While I was researching on wikepedia about the same topic and to see if what I read was the correct meaning, I found totally different meaning. I will quote what is found on wikepedia in the following:

“To the left is the reverse of the seal which portrays an unfinished pyramid. The separated cap of the pyramid, portraying the all-seeing eye, symbolizes that the United States is still far from finished. The shadow cast by the pyramid from the rising sun represents the undiscovered lands to the west. The sun, which is rising, represents that a new nation has begun. The Latin phrase Annuit Cœptis is located above the pyramid. Taken from the Latin words annuere (to nod, approve) and coepere (to begin, undertake), it literally means “he/it favors the things having been begun.” The official translation given by the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Mint, and the U.S. Treasury is “He (God) has favored our undertakings.” Novus Ordo Seclorum is shown on a ribbon below the pyramid and is a phrase taken from the fourth Ecologue of Virgil. In English, the Latin seclorum is the genitive plural form of the word saeculum, meaning “generation, century, or age.” Thus the motto can be translated as “a new order of the ages”. Written at the base of the pyramid in Roman Numerals is MDCCLXXVI or 1776, the year the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.” In front of these two translations, I keep wondering which one is true. I hope that in the near future the United States of America would introduce to us the real meaning that were meant by these symbols so that we can know the real truth and not the hidden one.

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notice the "all seeing -eye" on top of the unfinished pyramid.

"ALL-SEEING EYE. An important symbol of the Supreme Being, borrowed by the Freemasons from the nations of antiquity. Both the Hebrews and the Egyptians appear to have derived its use from the natural inclination of figurative minds to select an organ as the symbol of the function which it is intended peculiarly to discharge. Thus, the foot was often adopted as the symbol of swiftness, the arm of strength, and the hand of fidelity.

On the same principle, the open eye was selected as the symbol of watchfulness, and the eye of God as the symbol of Divine watchfulness and care of the universe. The use of the symbol in this sense is repeatedly to be found in the Hebrew writers. Thus, the Psalmist says, Psalm xxxiv, 15: "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry," which explains a subsequent passage (Psalm cxxi, 4), in which it is said: "Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."

In the Apocryphal Book of the Conversation of God with Moses on Mount Sinai, translated by the Rev. W. Cureton from an Arabic manuscript of the fifteenth century, and published by the Philobiblon Society of London, the idea of the eternal watchfulness of God is thus beautifully allegorized:
"Then Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, dost thou sleep or not? The Lord said unto Moses, I never sleep: but take a cup and fill it with water. Then Moses took a cup and filled it with water, as the Lord commanded him. Then the Lord cast into the heart of Moses the breath of slumber; so he slept, and the cup fell from his hand, and the water which was therein was spilled. Then Moses awoke from his sleep. Then said God to Moses, I declare by my power, and by my glory, that if I were to withdraw my providence from the heavens and the earth, for no longer a space of time than thou hast slept, they would at once fall to ruin and confusion, like as the cup fell from thy hand."

On the same principle, the Egyptians represented Osiris, their chief deity, by the symbol of an open eye, and placed this hieroglyphic of him in all their temples. His symbolic name, on the monuments, was represented by the eye accompanying a throne, to which was sometimes added an abbreviated figure of the god, and sometimes what has been called a hatchet, but which may as correctly be supposed to be a representation of a square.

The All-Seeing Eye may then be considered as a symbol of God manifested in his omnipresence-his guardian and preserving character-to which Solomon alludes in the Book of Proverbs (xv, 3), where he says: "The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding (or, as in the Revised Version, keeping watch upon) the evil and the good." It is a symbol of the Omnipresent Deity."

Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Volume 1, Albert G. Mackey. New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co., Inc., 1966. pp. 52-53

So, the eye, usually depicted in the sky looking out upon the earth, is an ancient symbol of the sun, and historically has been used as a symbol of omniscience. The idea of the solar eye comes to us from the egyptians, who equated the eye with the deity Osiris; the human eye in its ability to perceive light was viewed as a miniature sun.

The use of the eye emblem to represent God was quite common in the Renaissance; often, the eye would be enclosed within a triangle representing the triune godhead. Such an emblem can be found in numerous examples of Christian art.In the Orthodox churches in Greece, you see it very often depicted on the walls.

This emblem was eventually adopted by Freemasons as a symbol for the Great Architect.

A version of this symbol, elaborate onto the capstone of a pyramid (perhaps in a nod the symbol's origins in Egypt) forms part of the Seal of the United States, accompanied by the slogan, Annuit Coeptis , "It (Providence) has favored our undertakings."