The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 161
integrity, and honour, who have been tried and
tested. From these few, we, the present Brother-
hood of Freemasons, have been evolved ; we
have
risen out of the ashes of past ages to form a
Brotherhood throughout the world again, as of
old, with all the same Signs, Symbols, sacred rites
and ceremonies.
Many innovations have become necessary to
replace some of the lost secrets, and to meet the
higher state of evolution which humanity has now
attained. For instance, for the true password for
M.M.—Maat-Heru in Egyptian, meaning one
whose voice must be obeyed —we have substituted
another ; also in our passwords for grips we have
substituted our present for the original— in fact,
there are several in the various degrees, but I
know all in the Egyptian from the first to the
thirty-third, and I do not think it matters now
to attempt any change. During the last hundred
years the Brotherhood has been striving to raise
itself again towards " the greater standard " and
to attain a higher evolution.
This is a short resume of the Past, and there
is no time at my disposal to bring forward all
proofs of that which I have stated ; indeed, all
the proofs that I have found would occupy many
large volumes, but in my " Signs and Symbols of
Primordial Man," Second Edition, there are more
proofs given. It is a book that took me twenty
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