The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 155
given in Amenta, which was portrayed as an
Ideographic Symbol, to teach the Mysteries, and
was not believed to be anything but Mythical by
the old wise men of Egypt ; the old Mystery
Teachers. The D.C. of the 1 8° corresponds to
Amenta in our teachings.
The next evolution was the heavens in the form
of a Square, and as they portrayed a uranographic
picture here so they depicted the earth— thus you
have two Squares, the later form of the two
Triangles, and it was in this form they
Temples, a double square end to end,
with the cubes in the centre to mark
the division between Heaven and
Earth. On the top of the cube was
a circle of gold enclosing
the Sacred
Triangle, and at each corner was the
built the
figTIi.
Ideographic name of one of the Primary Trinity,
or the Three Grand Originals (Fig. 41).
Thus you see the progressive evolution of the
mind of man as depicted by the different Signs
and Symbols he used to express his thoughts and
beliefs
now.
when he had no language as we have
1 . He divided the
South, and symbolized
Heavens into North and
this by the Two Pillars—
that of Set for the South and that of Horus for
the North.
2. The two Pole Stars, N. and S., were de-