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Great Architect of the Universe (GAOTU) is a term used within Freemasonry to denominate the Supreme Being which each member individually holds an adherence to.

Freemasonry is a Fraternal body which accept initiates of many Faiths , using Metaphors of Architecture , and Construction to inculcate moral, ethical and philosophical principles in the participants. The allegorical working of its ritual is based around the construction of Solomon's Temple as relayed in Tanakh . The GAOTU is also represented by the Hebrew Letters Tetragrammaton in many Masonic tracing boards.


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An Architect is not only a person responsible for creating a building, but a person using principles of Mathematics and Geometry to Design the construction in a rational, harmonious manner. Moreover, once the plan or Blueprint has been made, the architect will in general no longer intervene in the process of construction unless there is a requirement for a change to the design. If the deity is such an architect, this means that the universe follows rational, understandable principles or "laws", which, once laid down, cannot be changed.

This conception of of LondonThe Invisible College: The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science by Robert Lomas, pub London 2003, the first scientific association in the world.


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