The Eye in the Pyramid refers to the Eye of Providence, which in the novel represents particularly the Bavarian Illuminati, and makes a number of appearances ( for example, as an altar and a tattoo ).

For example, the title of the first book, The Eye in the Pyramid, refers to the Eye of Providence, a mystical symbol which derives from the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horus and is rumored to be the symbol of the Bavarian Illuminati.

Where the top of the pyramid should be, the Eye of Providence watches over it.

The crest was the " The Eye of Providence in a radiant Triangle whose Glory extends over the Shield and beyond the Figures ", and the motto E Pluribus Unum ( Out of Many, One ) in a scroll at the bottom.

While the designs in their entirety were not used, the E Pluribus Unum motto was chosen for the final seal, and the roman-numeral 1776 and Eye of Providence is used on the reverse.

The Eye of Providence had been a well-known classical symbol of the deity since at least the Renaissance, which Du Simitiere was familiar with.

The same note also used an Eye of Providence, taken from the first committee's design.

For the reverse, Barton used a pyramid of thirteen steps, with the radiant Eye of Providence overhead, and used the mottos " Deo Favente " ( With God's Favor, or more literally, God Favoring ) and " Perennis " ( Everlasting ).

Barton had at first specified " on the Summit of it a Palm Tree, proper ", with the explanation that " The Palm Tree, when burnt down to the very Root, naturally rises fairer than ever ", but later crossed it out and replaced it with the Eye of Providence, taken from the first committee's design.

For the reverse, Thomson essentially kept Barton's design, but re-added the triangle around the Eye of Providence and changed the mottos to Annuit Cœptis and Novus Ordo Seclorum.

** Eye of Providence in a triangle

The reverse also followed the blazon carefully, and featured an elongated pyramid with the requisite mottos and the Eye of Providence ( a right eye, unlike versions which followed ).

This depiction more resembles the Egyptian pyramids, and changed the Eye of Providence to a left eye.

1525 Jacopo Pontormo painting containing the Eye of Providence in a triangle

Such theories usually claim that the Eye of Providence ( found, in the Seal, above the pyramid ) is a common Masonic emblem, and that the Great Seal was created by Freemasons.

While the Eye of Providence is currently a common Masonic motif, this was not the case during the 1770s and 1780s ( the decades when the Great Seal was being designed and approved ).

* A notable example of a pyramidal frustum appears on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States on the back of the United States one-dollar bill, the " unfinished pyramid " being surmounted by the Eye of Providence.

* Eye of Providence, the all-seeing eye

A large, double-faced sign featuring this logo overlooks Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts and has become a landmark, partly because of its uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Providence and its appearance in the background in televised baseball games.

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Barton explained that the motto alluded to the Eye of Providence: " Deo favente which alludes to the Eye in the Arms, meant for the Eye of Providence.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, " the Modern Eye ", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

Awareness of the brand was spread in Britain by the satirical political magazine " Private Eye " which ran a cartoon series " The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ", featuring a bumbling Foster's swilling Australian expatriate, from about 1964 onwards.

The first study to be announced was on 1 May 2007 Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology.

The term gimlet-eyed can mean sharp-eyed or squint-eyed ( one example of this use is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, who was known as " Old Gimlet Eye ").

His short story " The New Accelerator " was the inspiration for the Star Trek episode Wink of an Eye.

The company was founded by Sven Väth in the early 1990s as a sublabel of Eye Q Records with the divisions Harthouse Frankfurt, Harthouse UK and Harthouse America.

One was the largest observation wheel in the world, the " Millennium Wheel ", or the London Eye, which was erected as a temporary structure, but soon became a fixture, and draws four million visitors a year.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

The articulation of the primacy of embodiment led him away from phenomenology towards what he was to call “ indirect ontology ” or the ontology of “ the flesh of the world ” chair du monde, seen in his last incomplete work, The Visible and Invisible, and his last published essay, “ Eye and Mind ”.

In her memoir about her parents, With a Daughter's Eye, Mary Catherine Bateson implies that the relationship between Benedict and Mead was partly sexual.

In the 1960s, Brando starred in films such as One-Eyed Jacks ( 1961 ), a western that was the only film he ever directed ; Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ), portraying a repressed gay army officer.

This phenomenon was described in detail by John Elder Robison ( a former Milton Bradley engineer ) in his book Look Me in the Eye.

Might & Magic: The World of Xeen ( comprising Clouds of Xeen and Dark Side of Xeen ) was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon # 201 by Sandy Petersen in the " Eye of the Monitor " column.

Moving Pictures was Rush's last album to feature an extended song, the eleven-minute " The Camera Eye ".

Robert Zubrin was also recently featured in a CBC Television documentary special The Passionate Eye dubbed " The Mars Underground ".

The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1979, listed this ship as a Fusion drive probe that was Earth's first attempt to explore another star system.

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

This model was stripped down released in the US as the X ' Eye.

The halftime show was titled " Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye " and was produced by Disney to promote their Indiana Jones Adventure attraction at Disneyland that opened later that year.