The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 149
hood, primarily as Stellar Cult, and at a later
date the Solar Eschatology. That this was so
is proved by what we still find extant in many
countries, i.e. all our Signs and Symbols, with
engraved hieroglyphics explaining them by their
side as an objective proof, and their hieroglyphic
writings on papyri as subjective evidence.
It must have taken hundreds of thousands of
years to spread throughout the world, in view of
the fact that presumedly journeys had to be made
on foot at this early period of the world's
existence.
The lowest strata of the earth's surface where
remains of Stellar Cult man have been found is
in the Pliocene Age, in Italy, which must date
back six hundred thousand years or more. Also
the Piltdown skull of a human found in Sussex. 1
Hence the proof of the great antiquity of man's
existence on this earth as against the Biblical date,
and however much some Brothers may express
their disbelief of the ages
of time I have men-
tioned, they cannot gainsay or go against this
geological fact ; it is sufficient proof.
I want you to go back with me for a few minutes,
so far away in the past, to the time when man had
not the articulate language that we have now, and
so expressed some of his ideas and thoughts in
1 This is debatable— if this Piltdown skull was in the Pliocene
or not.