The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

SOME PROOFS THAT FREEMASONRY IS
PART OF THE ESCHATOLOGY OF
THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
A Lecture delivered before (he Humber Installed Masters'
Lodge, No. 2494, Hull, on November 7, 1913.
As you are well aware, of late years more especi-
ally, many students of Freemasonry have arrived
at the conclusion that our Brotherhood must have
originated far away back in past ages, because,
since the facilities of inter -communication have
become so easy, many who have travelled
much have found in India, China, Japan, Africa,
America, and other places, many of our sacred
Signs and Symbols connected with the religious
rites and ceremonies of the old inhabitants of
those places, but have been unable to form any
definite conclusions as to the why and wherefore.
Past and present writers on Freemasonry have
ignored all the origins of our Signs and Symbols,
because they were, and are, unacquainted with
the key to unlock the Mystery, and there are no
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