The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 173
Brothers, and still is so amongst
the remnants of
the Stellar Cult people living at the present
time. The reason why we have two Triangles
combined or blended into one symbol, or figure,
as on our own Masonic jewels, calls for some
explanation.
Primordial man was born in Africa ; you will
find proofs of this in my book " Origin and Evolu-
tion of Primitive Man." About the region of
the head of the Nile Valley, or Great Lakes, man
could see and mark the two Pole Stars—North and
South. The South was associated with Set, and the
North with Horus. Then Set was primary God ;
his Triangle or Ideograph was as i in Fig. 6.
As these people left their old land and travelled
to the North, the South Pole Star would sink down
below the Horizon, and the North Pole Star would
rise in the Heavens and become the only one
visible, which was represented by the Ideograph for
Horus (2 in Fig. 6). This is the mythical representation
of Shu lifting up the Heavens. Horus
was then given all the attributes of Set, and the
triangle of Set became blended with the triangle
of Horus, and formed these double triangles in
various phases, which were associated with the
name of Horus only, first in the Stellar Cult and
later carried on in their Solar Cult, and some of
them afterwards into the Christian doctrines. One
combination formed of these two triangles is that