Number 3: It Might Have Masonic Ties

There’s a popular theory claiming that the Statue of Liberty was originally supposed to be dressed as an Arab peasant woman and stand at the southern opening of Egypt Suez Canal the ruler of Egypt couldn’t afford it so Bartoli redesigned it giving it a different dress and a new name and sent it as a gift to the American people to celebrate the anniversary of the American Revolution so what does that have to do with the Masons well bartoli himself was a freemason he represented the French Grand Orient temple Masons hence his interest in Egypt he supposedly wanted to put the statue there to symbolize the Orient showing the way the torch Lady Liberty is holding is an important symbol in the Masonic culture as the torch of enlightenment or the flaming torch of reason the Masons also took part in the cornerstone laying ceremony in 1884 and the Grand Master William a Brody presided over it in the company of Grand Lodge members.