The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

114 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
or a connecting link in the Middle Ages
with the
Mysteries of the Ancients.
"
The working or operative Masons "—and
of these in existence—who
there are still many
use some of the primary signs and symbols of
which we, as so-called " Speculative Masons," have
substituted the modern forms, have a tradition that
they came from the Turanians. Well, that is quite
right and true. Some of the signs and symbols
which they use are of a different form from ours,
but the esoteric representation of each is the same
— as, for instance, the Swastika (Tau and Cross),
the meaning and explanation of which are all
identical. These are innovations obtained from
the Solar Cult people, and speaking truly did not
belong originally to the operative. But they also
say that the Egyptians
—which is quite wrong.
came from the Turanians
These Chaldean magicians
were Turanians, old Stellar Mythos people, who
originally came out of or left Egypt
at the end of
their Totemic Sociology ; remnants of them are
still found in various parts of the world, which
they spread over, except Australia, Tasmania,
Oceania, and extreme parts of South America.
You will find positive proof of Egypt being the
" home of man," from which all have taken their
origin, in my " Origin and Evolution of Primitive
Man."
By Stellar Mythos people
I mean those who first