The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

136 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
in the belief of the One Great Spirit, creator of
all things. Founded on the rising again of the
Spirit from the dead corpus. Founded on the
tenets that are those of the Ritual of old Egypt.
At the downfall of the old Egyptian Empire
the Priests of old Egypt were scattered over the
face of the earth and water, some retaining one
part of the Ritual, some another part ; and so
many look upon them as various and different
creeds, yet if you study these and find the origin of
all, you will only arrive in the end at one source
— old Egypt. That names and some forms and
ceremonies have changed matters nothing ;
it does
not alter the original. That is the reason that we
have Brothers of all creeds and denominations
meeting together in one insoluble bond, and, in
my opinion, it is one of the immutable laws of
the Divine Creator that we shall, in some not far
distant time, be all united again under one banner
as of old. Whatever that name may be is im-
material, but it will be " Freemasonry," which
possesses the truer form of the old Ritual than
any other Cult.
THE GAVEL.
This Symbol (Fig. 24) was the original sacred
sign used amongst primitive man (see Fig. 25), the
Pygmies, the original homo, who were developed in
Africa from an Anthropoid Ape. I have been