The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 159
became Christians between iooo and 1500. In
Mr. Harold Bayley's books you
examples. They are also to be found in the
churches of the Abyssinians. That the Chinese
will find numerous
have them is because these are old Stellar Cult
people, who left Egypt
glyphic language was undergoing
at the time that the hiero-
the evolution of
having affixes and prefixes added to the original
Ideograph, and before the Hieratic and Demotic
were evolved. That the Hindoos and Jews have
them is because these were Solar Mythos people
when they left Egypt, and are still so (in two
different forms or epochs of time), so that many
are thinking at the present day that all these
people have different religions, yet in reality it
is not so. Names have changed, language has
become reflected instead of monosyllabic, there-
fore the majority now express in words,
in different
ways, what was formerly sign language ; the origin
of all was one and the same, and because some
have travelled by one road and some by another,
and have different tales to tell of the routes by
which they travelled, you must not lose sight and
meaning of the originals. You can trace them all
back the way they came, as you can trace them
all from the earliest to the present time— if you
will only leave out the dogmas that have been
introduced.
The old Brothers were the men of the highest