The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

140 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
Egypt, and the Temples were built first as a circle,
then in the form of a double square, and at first
were not covered in, as far as we know ; simply
surrounded by walls made of stone with a Watcher
and Herald, both armed with a knife, at the
entrance. The ancient Egyptians, when working
out their Astro-Mythology, first divided the Heavens
into North and South— depicted by the two
Columns J. and B., and sometimes by two circles
(Fig. 27), then as a Triangle, next as
a Square, and finally as a Circle ;
and
as they portrayed Heaven in these
forms, so in each case was the earth
symbolized — it was always a double
earth— i.e. the Earth and the Earth of
Eternity. The first things they noticed
at the Equinox were the Pole Stars,
those stars which never set.
Primitive man was evolved somewhere around
the Great Lakes, the source of the Nile in Africa,
and as he advanced in knowledge and worked out
his Astro -Mythology, he never forgot
the tradition
of his home, which must have been handed down
verbally from generation to generation. It was
looked upon as the highest land or summit of the
earth,
— the
which they called Ta-Nuter, or Holy Land
Land of Spirits, or Khui Land, because it
was from here that the two Pole Stars, which
never set, could be seen resting on the horizon.