The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 135
Eschatology, as witnessed by the Ritual, and
which the old Priests of Egypt worked in a much
more beautiful and extended ceremony than we
of the M.M.
do. It was, in fact, the working
and the 1 8° combined. It was the teaching,
should lead in this
symbolically, of the life you
world and all you have to pass through in the
next to obtain that promised life eternal.
These were all acted symbolically and dramatic-
ally, the more to impress it upon the Brothers,
and the Signs and Symbols were brought on
from the beginning. This was the secret Sign
Language known to the Priests only. In some
cases these have been changed as evolution pro-
gressed, but the decipherment of these ideographs
and
proves that the interpretations are analogous ;
although we do not profess any religious doctrines
in Freemasonry, yet it is the highest form of
religion conceivable in the human intellect. You
must please understand that
" Amenta "
was
simply an
'
ideograph
'
to teach the Mysteries,
and not believed to be a real passage through
the Earth.
It is non-sectarian, and at the present day we
have Brothers of all creeds meeting together in our
Temples, without a particle of feeling of anything
but that of Brotherhood. And why? Because
Freemasonry was founded upon the religion of the
ancient Egyptians, which was universal. Founded