The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

190 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
Pygmies
it means
" The Great One,"
" The
Chief." If we trace the development of this to
our present day we find three distinct evolutions
of it. Amongst some of the Nilotic Negroes, who
followed the Pygmy all over the world, and who
are a higher developed type of man, they converted
this Symbol into a double cross by placing
the two
sticks in a different way, as in Fig. 11. It is
used by these Totemic people as one of their most
sacred signs, and has been adopted by those who
followed, down to our present Christian and other
X
Fig. 66. Fig. 67.
Cults, as one of their sacred signs. It is used
by our Brothers of the Higher Degrees. Amongst
the Stellar Cult people it was carried on and used
in its original form (Fig. 10), and is an Egyptian
Ideograph for Amsu—i.e. the first name given to
the risen Horus ; or, as Christians would say, the
Risen Christ. In a later period we have another
symbol added to this, namely, the Egyptian Ru (see
Figs. 66 and 67), which represents
the mouth of a
fish, and is an Ideograph for " An." It is the symbol
which represents the giving birth to water as the
Life of the World, and the Saviour who comes