The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

118 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
1 8° Lodge is another that is nearly perfect, and
was part of, or an attachment to, the first Temple
or Lodge, their Temples consisting of three
different rooms, or buildings, attached to one
another and connected by doors and passages.
The three cubes, each one surmounting the other,
formed one central pedestal, on top of which rested
a circle of gold and a triangle— at the corners of
this triangle were the names, in symbols,
of the
three names on the treble cube— namely, Horus,
Set, and Shu, the first and Primary Trinity, and
the three Grand Originals. Horus was typified
and portrayed as the God of the North, Set as
God of the South, and Shu as God of the Equinox.
The triangle was sacred on account of its repre-
senting Heaven. The Primary Triangle originally
represented Set, but when Horus took the place and
attributes of Set, he became God of the Celestial
North. Their two symbols
were afterwards blended
as Fig. 23. This form was sometimes doubled, as
Fig. 20, and was then the most sacred sign amongst
Fig. 20.
Xthe
old Brotherhood ; an ideograph
represented their " Khui Land," or
"
The Land of the Spirits," and we
find it portrayed as such all over the
world, where the old Brothers had lived. This
was, in Primary form, surrounded by four serpents
or Uraei, as guardians of the same (Fig. 21) ;
later it was three Triangles, doubled as above,