The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

204 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
separately or independently ; they are too uni-
versal. There must have been one common centre.
There was, and that was old Egypt. From Egypt,
or along the Valley of the Nile, man originated,
and spread throughout this earth. In old Egypt
he began to grow in stature and knowledge, and
from primitive faith man developed the highest
religious doctrines. At first he had not the
language as we have now ; many
of his ideas
were expressed in Signs and Symbols, and it is
clearly and distinctly evident that these were used
by these old Mystery Teachers to represent the
Great Architect of the Universe, and His various
attributes, and the doctrines of final things, when
they had no language of words to express their
thoughts as we have now.
As the old Egyptians progressed in knowledge
and wisdom, so exodes left and went to most parts
of the world—at least, the Stellar Cult people did
—and many are extant at the present day, prac-
tising and believing in the old Stellar doctrine.
From the Stellar they developed into a higher
evolution— the so-called Solar Cult—and these went
to India, nearly all over Europe, landed at Yucatan
in Central America, and travelled down as far as
Peru. They were called the Incas there ; here
in Europe we called them the Druids. The
Hindoos were an early exodus of these. The
Hebrews or Jews were also an early Solar exodus.