A map drawn by the Freemason architect Louis Michel Thibault (1791) of Cape Town and the Castle of Good Hope. An imaginary line connecting Lion's Head and the Castle transects the position of the Lodge de Goede Hoop which was designed and built by Thibault in 1803.
The inside of the Masonic Temple - Lodge de Goede Hoop.
Google Earth view of the same map (North Up). The Castle of Good Hope is marked as 001. A pentagram is formed by the 4 most visible geographic points and the Castle.
Pentagram:
Signal Point,
Lion's Head,
West side of table mountain (now the cable car station) and
Devil's Peak.
The Castle of Good Hope - itself a pentagram - forms the 5th point.
Lodge de Goede Hoop lies on the line connecting Lion's Head and the Castle.
Lodge de Goede Hoop lies on the line connecting Lion's Head and the Castle.
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