The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

148 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
and Rituals. Freemasonry was then the religion
of the world ; it existed not in this country only,
but throughout Africa, Europe, Asia, America, and
many
islands in the Pacific.
You may ask, How do I know this? It is
because I have been enabled to read the writings
on the wall still existing in the old ruined cities,
and on various papyri that have been found in
different parts of the world. Moreover,
I dis-
covered that these people were all of one Cult or
Brotherhood, analogous in every particular to our
own Brotherhood, and my knowledge of geology
has assisted me in arriving at these conclusions as
regards the vast ages of time. It is only by goingback
to the primary and tracing the human race
from the beginning, the signs and symbols then
formed as sign language in substitution for the
articulate sounds, which at that time did not
exist such as we have now, and following the
history of the " rise and fall " of all great nations,
and the causes for the same, that the secrets of
the past can be unravelled.
Having done this, after critically examining all
existing evidence, one conclusion only can be
arrived at, and it is that our Brotherhood
originated with the old Mystery Teachers, or High
Priests, in Old Egypt, whence various exodes
spread throughout the world, carrying with them
all the Rituals, Signs, and Symbols of the Brother-