The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 213
same time really bringing it on under a new name,
changing the original names by substituting others.
We in this Lodge have the old Stellar Mysteries,
but when you come to the eighteenth degree and
upwards, you change into the Solar with much
mixture of the Stellar, and some of the Christian
added, so you may be quite certain that ours
up to the R.A. are the Stellar or oldest, and,
although our traditional history only dates from
Solomon's Temple, you can be certain that it existed
thousands of years before the time of Solomon.
Let me here explain how you may always still
distinguish the old Stellar Cult buildings from the
Solar, and those which followed after. Wherever
you find the remains of two circles, these were
Stellar Cult Temples. They were built with twelve
monoliths, or twelve pillars for each circle, and
were pre-zodiacal, indicating the divisions of
heaven into twelve divisions of the North and
twelve divisions of the South ; these were two
separate circles. The Solar Cult people always
built with three circles (or in the form of
a Double Square), one representing the North
and another the South. The third was placed
between, the two circles bisecting each other like
links in a chain. These divided heaven into thirty-
to understand
six divisions. I do not mean you
that only twelve stones were used in building each
Temple. There were as many used as in other