The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 93
the Solar God. The seven periods of the Pole
Stars were also imaged by seven Eyes,
in con-
sequence of an Eye being the figure of a cycle.
This type is presented in Joshua, in the book of
Zechariah, in the shape of seven eyes on one
stone ;
" Behold the stone that I have laid before
one stone are seven Eyes." These
upon ; Joshua
are the seven Eyes of the Lord ; also the seven
Lamps ; as in Revelation.
But to write the whole explanation and inter-
pretation
even of these seven would form a book
of many pages. My object
is more to draw atten-
tion to two books which will I give, think, all the
explanation and interpretation desired, viz. " The
Ritual of Ancient Egypt," published by the
Trustees of the British Museum, which gives a
facsimile of all the Papyri, as well as the text of
the same in hieroglyphics, or, if one cannot read
the Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sir Le Page Renouf's
"
translation. The other book is Signs and
Symbols of Primordial Man."
In his second article Mr. F. E. Leith has fallen
into an error, important to correct, because it is
" The Ritual of Resurrection," or so-called " Book
of the Dead," to which I referred, and not to
Mr. Marsham Adams' book.
I do not intend to criticize Mr. Leith's writings,
because he has evidently spent a great deal
of time and study in trying to obtain the hidden