The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

132 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
kept the secrets, and have ever done so, and I
doubt very much if any Masons at the present
day could erect such buildings as those old
Turanians did.
This, I trust, will explain
the differences between
the Operative and Speculative Masons, and
although many writers have mixed these up, the
old Theopneustics
could be no such
of Egypt never did. There
mixture there—
they knew— the
origin of the two being
proof
as I have stated. The
of this can be found in the Ritual.
Our Brotherhood is the outcome of the evolution
of religious ideas from the time of primitive man,
who first adopted a sacred sign and symbol, propitiated
the elementary powers, and believed in a
Great Spirit, up to the period of the final working
out and perfecting of the Eschatology (or doctrine
of final things) of the Ancient Egyptians at their
zenith of power. Obviously, however, much of the
original
must have been lost. We have substi
tuted our present innovations for that which we ||
have lost—for instance, the genuine secrets of a
M.M., which were the secrets of the underworld
in the Stellar Mythos, and of Amenta in the Solar
Cult. The one, however, was only an evolution
of the other.
The reason that we travel from East to West in
search of that which is lost is that when Osiris
lost his life by the machinations of Sut,
like all