The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 137
amongst these little people, and with; them it means
M The Great One," *'
The Chief." It is just three
sticks crossed, as you see. Now,
development of this to our present day,
let us trace the
not as a
theory, but as a fact— for the evidence and proofs
are still extant. In following the evolution and
history of the human race I find that two developments
have been evolved out of this original sign,
yet the meaning of the symbolism
each.
is the same in
First, amongst some of the Nilotic Negroes who
H TO *
Fig. 24. Fig. 25. Fig. 26.
followed the Pygmy
all over the world and were a
higher-developed type of man. (See " Origin and
Evolution of Primitive Man.") They converted
Fig. 25 into a double cross, Fig. 26, by placing
the two sticks in a different way, and it is used
amongst these people
as one of their most sacred
signs in their Totemic Ceremonies, and has been
adopted by those who followed down to our present
Christian and other Cults as one of their sacred
signs, and is used by Brothers of the higher
degrees. The symbolism and meaning are identical
all through. Amongst the Stellar Mythos people