The Fool Sketch

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, and thereby of gates, doors, doorways, passages and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.

One face was bearded, the other beardless. In Freemasonry they became the faces of the two Johns -

John the Baptist

The Gospels tell us he was the son of Elisabeth, an elderly woman of the daughters of Aaron, and Zacharias, a temple priest in Jerusalem.

The writings of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish chronicler who wrote in the last quarter of the 1^st century AD, may reveal the true reason for John’s imprisonment and death.