The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

94 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
secrets of this Great Building, and his decipher-
ments, taken as a whole, are not far from correct,
and the errors contained therein are due to the
fact that he has not sufficiently studied
'
The
Ritual of Resurrection," the past history of the
world, and the origin and development
human race.
of the
Another point is that he quotes Dr. Le Plongeon
"
Book of
as accepting the correctness of the
Dazan " for the explanation of the Pyramids and
Temples of the Maya. Now, Dr. Le Plongeon
and his wife, Alice Le Plongeon, stayed with me
as my guests for a considerable time during the
writing of his works, and moreover he asked me to
read all his manuscripts before they were published.
This I did, and pointed out to him that he had
not differentiated between the Stellar and Solar
Temples, and had not taken into account any of
the previous Totemic people — which he acknow-
ledged
he did not understand. But no one that
I know, or ever heard of before, took him as an
authority upon the above subject, though
it is an
actual fact that he lived amongst the Mayas for
some time and discovered several ancient remains.
His deductions were, nevertheless, quite erroneous.
In the first place, he did not know the Egyptian
language, or even Hindoo, or Zend ;
and although
he tried to compare the Egyptian Hieroglyphic
Alphabet and Ideographs with the Maya, he could