The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 153
tically the same as Fig. 7, with the all-seeing eye
in the centre. These triangles, in another phase,
form the five-pointed star (Fig. 38). In this
latter there should be a point in the centre, which
we have left out, but in the original it was there ;
Fig. 37. Fig. 38.
it was the point in the centre of a circle (Fig. 39),
equal to the point at the top of the triangle
or cone (Fig. 40), that was crowned with the star
at the summit and has the same meaning
Fig. 39. Fig. 40.
as the
Eye. The Eye is an Ideograph of the Pole
Star, and two eyes therefore symbols of the
two Pole Stars, but at the time that the two
triangles were blended in the form of Fig. 7
the Eye was an Ideograph of the Pole Star North,