The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 177
—i.e. Paradise. You have " Hendre
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portrayed
in its centre, so that must be your representation,
terrestrially, of the Celestial— very appropriate.
Sometimes you will only lind one Triangle with
a dot or a star at the apex, as in Fig. 47. This
also is an Ideograph for Horus, God of the Pole
Star North. All the above forms belong
Stellar Cult people and not to any
to the
other. In
Fig. 48 the Triangle of Horus has been brought
on into the Christian doctrines ; the Symbol here
given has been taken from the Lapiderian Gallery
Fig. 46. Fig. 47. Fig. 48.
of the Vatican (Lundy, p. 92) and the Cross added
in the centre with the Ru.
We will now trace how these Triangles were
brought on from the Stellar and appropriated by
the Solar people, when the latter Cult succeeded
the former. The first combination of these two
Triangles in the Solar is found in many countries,
as in Fig. 49, sometimes surrounded by a circle,
as in Fig. 50. This Double Triangle has been
wrongly called " Solomon's Seal," but although
still used as a Sacred Sign by the Hebrews, it
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