The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

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THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 115
reckoned and kept time, and they did so by the
observation of the Precession of the Pole Stars—
Ursa. Minor, or the Little Bear. They did not
reckon by the year, except the one great year of
25,827 years ; this they divided into periods, a
period being roughly three thousand years — i.e.
the changing of the Pole Star. This Stellar
period lasted over three hundred thousand years ;
after which time was reckoned by
the moon's revo-
lutions, that was Lunar Mythos, and after that it
\\ was Solar, time being reckoned by
the sun's
revolutions, etc.
These Turanians had the Lesser Mysteries—
the seven Prima -y Mysteries, and were astro-
mythological.
The Greater Mysteries were ten in number, and
were Eschatological and founded on the Mystery
of the Cross. This Mystery was the Great
Mystery of Amenta, evolved at the foundation of
the Solar Cult, over thirty thousand years ago.
In the Solar Cult the two Poles I. I. North and
South were converted into -f- in Amenta. Hence
the reason that the Operative Masons and we
Speculative Masons have only the Lesser Mysteries,
up to the end of the seven, while in the so-called
" Higher Degrees "
they have some parts of the
ten Greater Mysteries, and founded on the Cross
established in Amenta. Our primary Seven
Degrees (so called) date back to the early