The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

124 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
it the esoteric rendering. The same tale of the
Son of God coming on earth, being crucified, and
rising again is at least a million years old, and
all the different cults are one and the same
rendered esoterically. The dates of the V.S.L.
are wrong, but the tale is true.
If you wish to make progress as students of
Freemasonry you cannot ignore the history of the
evolution of the human race. It is only by learn-
ing this that you can gain that light which some,
I know, are striving to obtain. If you ignore
the history of the past you will still remain at the
seashore at Dover looking across the water, but
you will find other Brothers, in other countries,
racing across in steam-launches, or monoplanes, to
be the first to unite the broken ends of that cable-
tow which parted at the downfall of the old
Egyptian Empire. These ends are in your hands,
and in studying Freemasonry you must also study
the origin and evolution of the human race. The
one is blended and evolved with the other, and
except you take the two together you will never
obtain the true gnosis.
There are many Freemasons who will scorn
these words, but they will do so from ignorance.
In fifty years' time these truths will be acknow-
ledged as facts, because some of you
will con-
tinue your studies, and will learn to read the
history of the past as I have, and it is only by