The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

172 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
bolism, more especially on account of the various
portrayals of combinations we find. In Wales
and the West of England many are to be found,
as well as in all countries where the old Stellar and
Solar people traversed. The first phase of the
two Triangles was as i, Fig. 6, which is an
Ideograph for the name of Set—El Shaddai of
the Phoenicians—and represented the God of the
Pole Star South, as well as the southern division
of Heaven ; and 2, which is an Ideographic symbol
for Horus, represents the God of the Pole Star
North and the northern division of Heaven. At
a later epoch these two Triangles were joined (see
Fig. 8) as a representative symbol for Heaven or
the land of the Spirits. Sometimes we find these
doubled, as in Fig. 21, where the two Double
Triangles are surrounded by four Serpents, repre-
senting symbolically the four Powers which guard
the Land of the Spirits, as in Revelation " guarded
the Throne and around about the Throne," called
in Egyptian the Khui Land. A still later portrayal
was a treble form of these, surrounded by concen-
tric circles, as in Fig. 22.
The meaning of all three forms is the same
wherever found throughout the world, but one form
is more ancient than the other. They are given
here as they occurred in evolution. This Ideograph
for the Khui Land, or the Land of the Spirits, was
the most Sacred Symbol amongst our ancient
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