Thomas Smith Webb describes the Masonic meaning of the symbol of the All-Seeing Eye.
Thomas Smith Webb, The Freemason’s Monitor; or, Illustrations of Masonry: In Two Parts. New and Improved ed. (Boston, MA: Joshua Cushing, 1808), 79–80
THE SWORD, POINTING TO A NAKED HEART,
Demonstrates that justice will sooner or later overtake us ; and although our thoughts, words, and actions, may be hidden from the eyes of man , yet that
ALL-SEEING EYE Whom the SUN, MOON and STARS obey, under whose watchful care even COMETS perform their stupendous revolutions, pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart, and will reward us according to our merits.
THE ANCHOR AND ARK
Are emblems of a well-grounded hope, and a well spent life . They are emblematical of that divine ark which safely wafts us over this tempestuous sea of troubles , and that anchor which shall safely moor us in a peaceful harbour, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary shall find rest.