The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 119
surrounded with concentric circles (Fig. 22). We
have it, as you know, surrounded with one circle.
I have in my possession
what I believe to be the
oldest Scarab in the world with this sign on it,
at one time the jewel of the High
Priest. It
represents the two Triangles guarded by four
Uraei in front of the Scarab, and on the back an
Island in a Lake, the most sacred sign that ever
existed in our Brotherhood, and must date back
to the time of the High
nome of Upper Egypt
Priest of the seventeenth
at the time of Totemic
Fig. 21. Fig. 22. Fig. 23.
Sociology. Because the " Khui Land " was " the
Land of the Spirits," i.e. Heaven, and was de-
picted as situated at the Pole Star North, i.e. this
Northern Land Paradise, surrounded by the waters
of space, and they portrayed and represented the
terrestrial by building a sacred temple on an island
in a lake. Hence the reason we find the two
ideographs together, as in Fig. 23, one representing
the Celestial and the other the Terrestrial.
You may ask, why two triangles? It represents
symbolically— or is an ideograph of— Heaven in