The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 145
the true form, and, moreover, the Irish 1. has
an address given to him pointing out what Free-
masonry is, etc., just as the old priests of Egypt
gave their I. I use the term square
and double
square because I do not like the American term,
nor do I think it correct. I prefer to use the term
" "
square as the old Egyptians did, as this was
I don't think we
the primary, and in my opinion
can improve upon their ideas. Although Amenta
might by some be termed
'
a cube,"
the idea of the Egyptians. This
it was not
is proved by the representative h —J
ideographs of the Upper and Lower
Earth in the Ritual, viz. two ideo-
graphs for two skies (one reversed) p
i.e. a sky for each (Fig. 34), which
proves that it was the same square
as in the former Cult.
Freemasonry is an Eschatology, taught origin-
ally in Signs and Symbols, these originating in
the mind of man from objective forms, and being
subjective representations of sublime tenets which
at this early period he had no words to express
otherwise, and which afterwards became the secret
and sacred writings and language of the Priests.
Signs preceded words and words preceded writings.
These teach you the highest ideals and concep-
tions that the human intellect has ever evolved,
both morally and eschatologically, and how you
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