Rosicrucians and Freemasons such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Charles Thompson inspired the constitution of the United States. Thompson, the designer of the Great Seal of the USA, was a member of Franklin’s American Philosophical Society, the equivalent of the English "Invisible College". The Seal is inspired by the alchemical tradition, inherited from the allegory of the ancient Egyptian Therapeutate. The eagle, the olive branch, the arrows and the pentagrams are all occult symbols of the opposite: good and evil, male and female, war and peace, darkness and light. On the reverse (as also on the dollar bills) is the truncated pyramid, indicating the loss of the Old Wisdom, severed, and forced underground by the Church. The rays of ever-hopeful light, incorporating the "all-seeing-eye", were used as a symbol during the French revolution.