The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

xii INTRODUCTION
lived much too late to be any authority, and
all he wrote was from traditions he had received
himself.
Josephus is supposed
to be the most authentic
writer on the Jewish antiquities, but he wrote his
work in the beginning of Trajan's reign, and there
is a great discrepancy in the traditions and varia-
tions in the Hebrew and Greek texts which no
power can reconcile, and this 2,000 years after
Moses lived.
These traditions were derived from Rabbinical
comments, and none of the chronology by the
most able writers will agree. He leaves out the
time of the leadership of Tola and Abdon alto-
gether, and never mentions them.
As stated in my writings, I have not, and do
not profess to have, brought forward half the proof
in existence of my contentions ;
I have simply
driven a small pathway through a dark and
hitherto impenetrable forest, with the hope and
firm belief that some future Brother will widen
this into a great road, so that there may be true
light where there is now darkness ; and although
I have cut a small path through and shown the
way, it may be a hundred years before all
Brothers motor through. That this will be I have
not the slightest doubt.
A. C.