>>21592515The meaning of that image is the Mason is challenging you to escape the cattle ranch and attain illumination. The destroyed twin towers of modern society in the background are further away from the illuminated capstone while the ancient ruins are closer, indicating that the ancients were closer to the truth than we are. Bael sits atop a pile of bones (indicating the many who were devoured by him in search of true knowledge) at the end of a series of false steps only leading halfway up the pyramid. It serves as a booby trap to prevent you from becoming illuminated and achieving apotheosis. The crow and the scorpion as well as the obelisk represent Osiris, the Egyptian God of death and rebirth, and this indicates that we must be destroyed and reborn from the ashes in order to become initiated, via a process that Masons call Fellowcraft, which is synonymous with alchemy. They see men as marble to be chiseled unveiling the True Man underneath.
