1 … In order to understand why "Light" has become an object of worship by the Masons and others, one has to understand some simple laws of the physical universe. It is obvious that the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. The Masons know that it is in the direction known as the east where the physical sun rises each day.
2 … Mr. Pike indicated that it is in the eastern part of their Lodge that their Worshipful Master, their equivalent of the President, sits. One Mason who explained this fact was Cap- tain William Morgan, a Mason of some 30 years, who exposed the Masonic rituals in a book entitled FREEMASONRY EXPOSED. According to him, the Master sits in the east for a reason:
"As the sun rises in the east to open and adorn the day, so presides the Worshipful Master in the east to open and adorn his lodge …"
3 … Albert Pike further discussed that point when he wrote:
"Our Lodges are said to be due East and West, because the Master represents the rising Sun, and of course must be in the East."
4 … Mr. Mackey also wrote about the relationship of the place of the Master's location, and the east:
"The East, being the place where the Master sits, is considered the most honorable part of the Lodge …"
5 … So the sun, a symbol of Lucifer, the god of some of the Masons, resides in the east. The Masons know this, so they place their Worshipful Master in that area, and then conceal the reasons why they have done so from their fellow Masons.
6 … The significance of this fact will become clear in further chapters of this study.