The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

86 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
The " Star Sothis " was " The Star of the White
Spirits/' i.e. it was the place
where all the white
spirits came forth after travelling through the
underworld in the earliest time of the Egyptian
Mythology, during their totemic sociological state,
and during the time of Stellar Mythos — before
Amenta was formed, and therefore pre-Solar. In
Stellar Mythos it was the Star of Annunciation, it
heralded the birth of Horus. It was the Morning
Star of the Egyptian year — 365^ days —and their
Great Year— 25,827 years. In Lunar Mythos it
was the Star of Hathor and her infant son Horus,
and above all to these oldest observers it was the
herald of the Inundation, telling them when the
Nile would come down and fertilize the land, and
food would be plentiful as a good result of inundation.
Most important and sacred rites were connected
with the rising of this Star, which We
need not enter into here. But here was within the
Great Pyramid the time of the commencement of
the New Year which was the commencement of the
Precession of the seven Pole Stars {Ursa Minor),
ending with the seventh Pole Star Hercules, " The
Man"— the 6 -f 1=7- The six periods of the
world's existence, ending with the seventh, taking
2 5*827 years to perform.
To recommence : again To begin another Great
Year and not to be swallowed up in Eternity when
time shall be no more. This time of reckoning was