The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 79
" Listen ye Sons of the Earth to your instruc-
tors, the Sons of the Fire, learn there is neither
First nor Last, for All is One Number issued from
No Number. Learn what we, who descend from
the Primordial Seven, we who are born of the
Primordial Flame, have learned from our fathers.
From the effulgency of light the ray of ever-
darkness sprang in space the re-awakened energies.
The one from the egg, the six and the five. Then
the three, the one the four, the one the five, the
twice seven, the sum total. And these are the
Flames, the Essences, the Builders, the Force,
the Divine Man."
In the Egyptian representation there are seven
Souls of
of these
life-forces recognized in nature. Six
were pre-human — elementary forces or
powers born of the Primary Great Mother, when
there was yet no human soul distinguished from the
six that were souls, such as light or air, earth or
water, and animal or vegetable life. The seventh
Soul was human. This was the Soul of Blood,
brought forth by a goddess in the human likeness.
The Blood Mother was imaged by the Neith (see
"
Signs and Symbols of
Virgin
Primordial
Man "). These six were pre-anthropomorphic, the
seventh was human, 6+ i=7- They were the
elementary children of the Great Mother, six
Brothers and One the leader, or Great One of the
company. Sut, the male Hippopotamus ; Sebek,