The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 141
This was the summit of the Earthly Mount. The
Two Eyes, side by side, was one mode of expressing
this ideographically. The Pole Star, or The
Eye, therefore, became a type of the Eternal, be-
cause, apparently, it never changed
with time. It
was the earliest ideographic type of supreme intelli-
gence which gave the law in heaven, which was
all-seeing, unerring, just, and true. It was the
centre of the Circumpolar Paradise, and it became
a standpoint in the heavens for the mind of man
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to rest on at the centre, and radiate to the circum-
ference : that point within a circle from which
you could not err. But it was not here that you
could find the secrets of a M.M. That is where
we have gone wrong and made a bad innovation in
our Ritual by not understanding the true gnosis.
One must know all the secrets of a M.M. before
arriving here, and it was in Amenta they learnt
these, not in the Celestial Paradise at the North.
That is where the G.A.O.T.U. will receive you
after you have travelled through the difficulties,