The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 151
that they had the Pedestal, which the R.A.M.'s
have, and which in the old Temples was always
situated in the centre. These two different degrees,
as we have made them, were then only one, as
can be seen at the Temples of Knossos and those
in Central America.
The door of the Temple was an equilateral
triangle, and therefore a Symbol of Heaven
(Fig- 3 5). The Square was a Symbol of Earth ;
the whole entrance symbolized passing of
the Soul from earth to heaven.
The two Pillars at the porchway en-
trance of every Temple are specially im-
portant in ancient symbolism. Originally
these old Mystery Teachers divided the
heavens into two divisions, North and South,
which was represented by the Pole, or Pillar
of Set, in the South—El Shaddai of the
Phoenicians ; and the Pole, or Pillar of Horus,
in the North, termed the
" Sustainers of the
Heavens." Sometimes two Eyes were portrayed
as the two Poles, or, rather, two Pole Stars. These
were the representative symbols of the two gods
of the Pole Stars, North and South, called also
the Two Judges. The Ideographs of them were
Two Jackals, and were later called in Egyptian the
two Tatt Pillars, one meaning " In Strength " and
the other " To establish " ; and combined Tattu,
which in Egyptian also means " The place of estab-