The ladder that rises from The Book of Holy Law indicates that the divine instructions from one’s own faith are the only basis for the work of the Freemason. A ladder, sometimes with nine rounds, resting at the bottom on the earth, its top in the clouds, the stars shining above it, is deemed to represent that mystic ladder which Jacob saw in his dream, set up on the earth, and the top of it reaching to Heaven, with the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
