The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 157
been handed on from generation to generation to
the present day, the interpretation varying some-
what with each successive Cult.
So many, even learned men, who ought
better, have stated verbally and in writing
to know
that the
old Egyptians worshipped many gods, birds, cats,
and other animals, etc. This was not so. These
old Priests, the forefathers of our Brotherhood,
only believed and worshipped One Great God, the
Great Architect of the Universe, expressed by
various Signs and Symbols. If the Triangle was
the sign and symbol of the Great God,
it was the
Great. God that was worshipped, and not the
Triangle. The Triangle was held sacred because
it was a symbol made to represent Him. In twenty
thousand years' time it is quite possible
who come after us and find
sculptured in our churches will say
that those
"
the Lamb
that we were
worshippers of sheep—which would be just as
true as many say of the old Egyptians
at the
present time. If the Symbol represented the Deity,
and not the
it was the Deity that was worshipped
Symbol.
Bro. Hobbs, in a letter to The Freemason, states
that I speak derisively of Thomas Payne and others
who attribute the origin of the Craft as Druidical.
Let me state here distinctly I did nothing
of the
kind. What I said was that Payne and others
stated that these old Druids worshipped the Sun,