The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

82 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
of Heaven, and was typified by the door of
Pyramid, which was a triangular stone revolving
"
on its axis (see Signs and Symbols of Primordial
Man "). The one and the four. The one was
Horus— the four were the four brothers of Horus,
afterwards called the children of Horus, who were
the four supports of Heaven when this was repre-
sented by the Square —and here in the Pyramid
symbolized by the four stones, which form a
square over the entrance. The " flame born of a
flame " was Horus, the child of Hathor, who came
forth at dawn as the Young Sun God. Hathor,
the Moon Goddess, descends into the underworld,
and there meets the Sun, and obtains regeneration
of Light from the Sun (Lunar mythology). In
Ritual, ch. xvi., it is stated :
'
Thou art Horus,
the Son of Hathor, the flame born of a flame."
Here Horus is born and is represented as the
Child of Light, who became in the Eschatology
the Divine Man.
" The one from the Egg !
'
How would
Madame Blavatsky have rendered the meaning of
this mystery? Yet in the Ritual it is plain. The
God of the Earth was Seb, whose Zootype in the
mythology was a Goose that laid the Egg. Now
the Egg that was laid was the Sun setting in the
West, which was " hatched out " in the underworld
and came forth in the East as the Young
Sun— " Giver of Light," etc.—and was typical of