The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

212 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
rolls of parchment with writings
followers of Horus."
thereon of the
I bring forward this evidence that you may not
be carried away by enthusiasm, which some
Brethren declare I am exceedingly liable to in
my own case, and that I put forward theories
instead of facts. But let me assure you that I
belong to an honourable profession
where we are
trained to think, reason, and sift the objective
and subjective proofs to the bottom. The facts I
lay before you are objective and capable of proof.
The Stellar Cult was followed by the Lunar,
and then by the Solar, and finally by the Christian
doctrines. At the time of the zenith of the Solar
Cult, at the latest, it is certain that they had estab-
lished ten more Mysteries, called the Greater
Mysteries, and worked out their Eschatology, or
doctrine of final things, and had established their
Sign Language and rituals for these. I do not know
how, or why, all these have been divided up into
thirty-three degrees as we have done, because in
all, the Stellar and Solar added together,
I can
only make twenty-two. In the Stellar there were
seven at first, afterwards five more were added. 1
In the Solar ten more were added, but many of
these were a different form of the Stellar. It was
an attempt to blot out the former cult, but at the
1 The Stellar Mysteries were, however, afterwards subdivided
into twenty-four.