The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

130 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
good causes which come within the length of
our C.T.
But there is a higher view. Freemasonry means
much more than this. In Freemasonry we have
many mysteries, handed down to us from remote
ages, of a glorious past, a knowledge of which
many are striving to obtain. This knowledge can
be obtained only in one way, and that is by
mastering the old writings of the Egyptians and
glyphs of the Stellar Mythos people, or a transla-
to obtain information of the evolution of man
tion ;
in all its phases, and to learn the history of the
past, because by that, and that alone, can the
origin and meaning of all that is attached to the
term " "
Brotherhood of Freemasonry be found.
But you must learn these; and not from
ignorance, from the want of this knowledge, draw
conclusions, make guesses, and theories, of what
these ideographs, signs, and symbols are, as many
writers on Freemasonry in the past and present
have done— for instance, Bro. Armitage considers
that the symbols found in ancient buildings were
used by the building traders only ; in other
words, by the Operative Masons. That is quite
wrong, and this theory could only have arisen in
the minds of those unable to read Sign Language.
Bro. Gould has fallen into the same error.
The Mexican and Central American Glyphs
and the Egyptian ideographic Signs and Symbols