The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

116 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
Stellar-Astro-Mythology, whilst the " Higher De-
grees " are Eschatological and date back to the
commencement of the Solar Cult only.
Then as far as our Sacred Volume is concerned,
you must remember that not until Luther's time
did we have, speaking generally, any of these
exoteric writings to study, except a few extracts
given out by the Roman priests, and even then
the esoteric representations were not known, and
it is only during the last few hundred years that
we have kept written records of anything.
One might say that for five thousand years there
was no literature left us that we could read and
properly understand. The Greeks, who have been
much over-estimated, never understood the Escha-
tology, and, in their ignorance, perverted all that
had been told them ; and so it was not until a
few years ago that the discovery was made which
gave us the key to read the writings and to find
the true history of the past. The finding of various
Papyri with sacred writings, which we can now
read, proves
what all our forms and ceremonies
meant, and from whence they came.
Here written on Papyri, on stones, and even on
the Great Pyramid itself, is our Ritual, with all
passwords, signs and symbols, and the meaning
of the same, and I, having discovered the key to
read the Central American Glyphs, which I have
now given to the rest of the world, found that