The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

80 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
the Crocodile ; Shu, the Lion ; Hapi, the Ape ;
Anup, the Jackal ; Kabhsenuf, the Hawk ; and
One the Elder Horus, the Human, as The Chief.
This was the same in Totemism and the mythology,
and all descended from the Great Mother, who
was mythical.
The change in the human descent from the
motherhood to the fatherhood is not apparent in
the mythology until the time of Ptah, the father
of Atum-Ra, but these seven were carried on from
their Totemism and Mythology
to the Stellar
Mythos, and from the Stellar to the Lunar, then to
the Solar, and finally are brought on in the Escha-
tology in different forms and characters, and in the
present day are represented
both in the Hebrew
and the Christian doctrines in various forms. It
is in Atum-Ra, or Turn, who was both male and
female, that we find " one all Parent." In the
Ritual, ch. xvii., Turn is described as giving birth
to Hu and Sa as the children of him who now
unites the Father and Mother as divinity in one
person. Hu denotes matter, Sa or Ka signifies
spirit. This creation then is from blood and
spirit,
" the double primordial essence '
first
assigned to Ptah.
These were the seven Souls or elementary powers
represented by Zootypes, in the primary form,
and were the primordial forms of the primary
powers that were derived at first from the Mother