The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 143
When the Solar Cult took the place of the Stellar
and Lunar, Ptah, the G.A.O.T.U., figuratively
worked out a tunnel through the Earth, called
Amenta ;
a passage for the Sun and Moon and
Manes to go through the underworld, where all
the difficulties, dangers, and trials had to be passed
before entering that Circumpolar Paradise situated
at the North. Before (i.e. during) the early part
of the Stellar Cult the Manes passed through the
underworld down beneath the earth— " The Great
Void." During the Stellar Mythos Egypt was
Fig. 32. Fig. 33.
figuratively divided into a Square. The Manes
entered at the North and passed South through this
underworld, and came out in a cave situated on an
Island in a Lake (The Great Lake, Victoria Nyanza
and Tanganiki, which were then one— i.e. the
Khui Land), the original place from whence the
first man came, as well as the source of their water
of life— the Nile— which they knew. This was
worked out in the Stellar Mythos first.
The form of Amenta was given as a double
square (Fig. 33) end to end— the double earth.
Then Egypt was divided into two squares, the