The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

154 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
associated with Horus only. This one, the centre
of the six other Pole Stars of Ursa Minor, pr
Little Bear, revolved in a circle around this centre
one, therefore the Pole Star was a symbol or
type of the eternal, because apparently it never
changed with time. It was the earliest type of
supreme intelligence which gave the law, which
was unerring, just, and true, and it became a
standpoint
in the heavens for the mind of man
to rest on at the centre and radiated to the circum-
ference (a point within a circle from which one
could not err). It was also a type or symbol of
the Judge, or Just One. This will give you the
origin and meaning of the symbols you
use on
your stationery, which are associated with these
two triangles. The interpretation is that this is the
symbol of the Just God who gave the Law ; The
Great Architect of the Universe. As regards " That
point within a circle," a bad innovation has been
made here, on account of not knowing the true
gnosis of the Ritual of Ancient Egypt, as this
was not the place that all the secrets were com-
"
municated and known This Centre of the
;
Circle "
represented Paradise. They left the East
to go to the West to obtain the secrets of M.M.
These secrets were given in " Amenta," which was
entered in the West, and traversed until they came
out in the East, before they could enter Paradise
situated at the North. The secrets were taught and