Blood of the Pure - Chapter Five - Hourglass

Hourglass

The hourglass is an emblem of time, although hidden within is the promise of life- because the hourglass is reversible, it holds within a promise of resurrection – as it is seen by the Freemasons and Rosicrucians who grasped its true ancient meaning.

Unlike most other methods of measuring time, the hourglass concretely represents the present as being between the past and the future, and this has made it an enduring symbol of time itself.

The hourglass, sometimes with the addition of metaphorical wings, is often depicted as a symbol that human existence is fleeting, and that the "sands of time" will run out for every human life. It was thus used on pirate flags, to strike fear into the hearts of the pirates' victims. In England, hourglasses were sometimes placed in coffins and they have graced gravestones for centuries. The hourglass was also used in alchemy as a symbol for hour.