The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

144 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
North and South, and so you have the Crown
of the North and the Crown of the South. In
all Temples you find these were built in this form,
the original being the House of Earth as a square,
and the House of Eternity as a square, in the
Stellar Mythos, surmounted by a Triangle. This
again was represented in the formation of Amenta
as a double square, the result being that as all
Temples were built on this plan it did not change
its form when the Cults changed ;
for in the
seven Lesser Mysteries and the ten Greater
Mysteries you have this form of all Temples, and
your Lodge is on the same plan,
was changed.
but the orientation
It is the origin of the form of our Lodge ;
is the origin of the form of all Temples, through
all time, only during the Stellar Mythos the orientation
for the first fifty-two thousand years was
South, then for three hundred thousand years at
least it was North, and after that in the Solar
Cult and up to the present day it has been East.
We do not have the Cubes in our Lodges, although
the R.A.C. does, and this is the correct form.
But in Irish Lodges a Cube is in the Centre
of the Lodge as an Altar, on which is placed
the Warrant, Book of Constitutions, Working
Tools, etc., and around it are stationed the three
" Lesser Lights," which represent the Egyptian
Primary Trinity. Thus the Irish Lodges retain
it