The Tracing Board is 3-Dimensional. Actually, it is blank board, with a large black coffin, resting on tiers (or ‘flames’ when seen in fluorescent lights) placed on it. A twig of acacia, a silver triangle with the old Master’s word (m-b) in the middle, and skull and cross bones are placed on it. The coffin stands between the Square in the East and the Compasses in the West.
Pictures of the Skulls, with dark sentences – ‘Memento Mori’ (meaning ‘Remember Death’) hang on the North and South walls
This is the only oblong TB in the SwR.
In all degrees, which show the perfect, spiritual world, the TB is
square. That is in 1st. 2nd, 4th and further. During the destruction of the
material world (body) in 3rd (and during the chaos of transition from the 4th
and 5th the TBs are oblong squares.