The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

174 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
with the All-seeing Eye in the centre (Fig. 42).
This form is an Ideographic symbol for Horus, as
God of the Pole Star North and South, having the
'
All-seeing Eye." This originated with these old
Stellar Cult people. At the Equatorial Provinces
the two Pole Stars could be seen resting on the
Horizon, and these were symbolized in one form,
as two Eyes, called Merti in Egyptian (Fig. 13).
In Egyptian these two Eyes were, therefore, Ideo-
graphs for the two Pole Stars ;
but when the South
Pole Star had disappeared below the Horizon, and
Fig. 42. Fig. 43.
the North Pole Star had risen in the Heavens, there
was only one Eye (Fig. 14). The North Pole
Star had figuratively absorbed the South, and this
North Pole Star became a symbol or type of the
Eternal, because apparently it never changed with
time. It was the earliest type of supreme intelli-
gence which gave the law which was unerring,
just, and true. It was also a type or symbol of the
Great Judge, or Just One. The interpretation,
therefore, of this symbol, sign, or ideograph
(Fig. 42) is Horus, or T.G.A.O.T.U., the
Eternal Lord of the North and South, the Great