The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry from The Meaning of Masonry by Walter Leslie Wilmshurst.

“For the ‘sun’ symbolizes our spiritual consciousness, the higher aspirations and emotions of the soul” [via]

Consider also:

  1. Robomancy
  2. “By the assistance of these lesser lights within us, a man is enabled to perceive what is, again symbolically, called the ‘form of the Lodge,’ i.e. the way in which his own human nature has been composed and constituted, the length, breadth, height and depth of his own being.”
  3. “To each of us also from our birth have been given three lesser lights, by which the Lodge within ourselves may be illumined.”
  4. “We are told seven or more years was the normal period, though less sufficed in worthy cases. The most severe tests of discipline, of purity, of self-balance were required before a neophyte was permitted to pass forward, and a reminiscence of these tests of fitness is preserved in our own working by the conducting of the candidate to the two wardens, and submitting him to a merely formal trial of efficiency.”
  5. “Two paths are open to him at this stage, a path of light and a path of darkness; a path of good and a path of evil. The N.E. corner is the symbolical dividing place between the two.”