The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

150 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
Signs and Symbols. Many conclusions arrived at
were founded on the observation of the elemental
powers and observation of natural phenomena. If
you will bear this in mind, you will be able to
understand better the reason for the origin of our
Signs and Symbols, and why
these have continued
to be associated and represented in every religious
cult with very little or no alteration from the
original. Many of our Signs and Symbols were
brought on prior to the Stellar Cult ; but it was
during this period that the Great Pyramids, as
well as the Temples, were built, which are found
nearly all over the world. The old Brotherhood
was one and the same in forms, rites, and cere-
monies, with the same Signs and Symbols in Africa,
Asia, Europe, America, and some of the Pacific
isles.
The Stellar Cult people's Temples and buildings
can always be identified, because they were icono-
graphic, whereas the Solar people's were not ; they
both built with polygonal- shaped stones and
monoliths. Therefore you can always distinguish
definitely the ages of these Temples and who built
them, and the reason was that in the Stellar Cult
pre-human types were used, i.e. Zootypes, to
represent
the Great Architect of the Universe and
His attributes ; whereas in the Solar the human
types had taken the place of these. Their Temples
were of the same form and shape as ours, except