The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

186 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
where they lived and practised the old Solar Cult
they had brought with them from Egypt.
Another form or Symbol for Heaven was the
square, Fig. 61. The reason being that the
Egyptians, in their progressive evolution from
the division of Heaven into North and South, now
added East and West, thus forming the Heavens
into four Quarters, or a Square, by means of the
Swastika figure. As already shown, there were
two human figures, Right and Left, so they formed
a Right and Left Swastika, as Figs. 62 and 63.
Fig. 61. Fig. 62. Fig. 63.
They crossed the two human figures, and if these
two Swastikas be crossed they form a perfect
Square, with four Quarters.
In India and other places, where we find the
early Solar Cult existing, these two Swastikas are
frequently found together as Right and Left. As
by a Square they portrayed the Heavens, so by
another Square they depicted the Earth. Thus,
placing the two squares end to end, we arrive
at the form in which all their Temples were
built and are built, after the primary Circular