The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 139
ing the other, with an ideograph sign
on each
(Fig. 4), representing figuratively the Great One of
Great One of the
the North = Horus I. ; The
South=Sut, El Shaddai of the Hebrews (who was
originally primary god when they first worked out
their Astro-Mythology in the Southern Hemi-
sphere) ; The Great One of the Central = Shu,
the God of the Equinox. This has been brought
on in our Brotherhood as the symbol used and
represented as in the Egyptian. It is the symbol
of the Master, the double-headed hammer, the
gavel, in Egyptian, Neter, as representing The
Great and Powerful One, The One Great Chief
— in our case, the great all-powerful one of the
Lodge, the W. Master ; therefore I am sure you
will agree with me that this is one of our symbols
that has been handed down from the remotest
antiquity ; but the symbolism has not changed
through
all the evolutions of the human race from
the first to the present day, and we have the
other two gavels, representatives of this Treble
Cube in the J.W. and S.W. in this Lodge, and
these are the representatives of the three Grand
Originals in the R.A.C.
Now let us turn to the date of origin and form
of our Lodge. Our Temples or Lodges first
originated at the time of Totemic Sociology, over
six hundred thousand years ago. These were
formed at first in the seventeenth Nome of Upper