The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

170 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
professors write their theories, not understanding
Sign language, or the old Cults of Ancient Egypt,
it does an immense harm, because, coming from
the pen of a professor, people generally take it
that it must be true, whereas it is puerile nonsense.
Modern ignorance of the mythical mode of representation
has led to the ascribing of innumerable
false beliefs.
These Stellar Cult people were the first to build
Temples. They built the Great Pyramid and many
of the old Temples found in Africa, Europe, Asia,
America, and some of the islands of the Pacific.
Their Priests, who were their learned men, were
the old Mystery Teachers of Egypt ; many exodes
of them left Egypt and carried all their knowledge
of building and their religion to most parts of the
world. These were followed by a higher
class and
developed human— namely, the Solar Cult people.
The buildings of the Stellar people can always
be identified by their being Iconographic, whereas
the Solar and others were not. Therefore, you
can always distinguish definitely the ages
of the
Temples, and who built them. These people were
the first to work out the old Astro-Mythology, and
it is to this that we owe the origin of many
of our
Sacred Signs and Symbols. It is important to
distinguish and know the difference, because the
Stellar is so much older, and yet the Solar is only a
further evolution of the Stellar.