The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

134 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
the question of What is that which was lost?
The secrets of Amenta, or the underworld, were
the genuine secrets of a M.M.
The genuine password for a Master of the Lodge
in Egypt is
'
Maat Heru," one whose voice must
be obeyed. Here it was, in Amenta, that the Tatt
Cross was thrown down ; here it was that the veil
of the Temple was rent asunder, and the Cubic
Stone poured forth blood and water, and all was
reborn. Here he was shown all the signs, given
and taught those passwords, or words of power
and might that kept evil and powers of darkness
away, and enabled him to pass through the underworld
and be raised to the glorious resurrection in
Spirit form. The Egyptian religion, which was
universal throughout the world at one time, was
founded on the raising again of the human soul
emerging alive from the body of dead matter.
The Corpus could not, and never did, come back,
or make its appearance again in any form, but
the spirit that arose from this was seen by Seers.
Religion proper commences with, and must
include, the idea or desire for another life. This
belief in another life is founded on the resurrec-
tion of the Spirit. The belief in the resurrection
of the Spirit was founded upon
of abnormal Seership.
So we have that beautiful ceremony
the faculties
in the M.M.
degree symbolical of this part of the Egyptian