The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

214 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
erections, but there were twelve monoliths, or
pillars of special import. These were placed out-
side the walls, sometimes inside the Temple.
The primary formation of the Temples was
round, and sometimes two were built together,
one North and one South. These were built when
Set was Primary God of the South. An example
of one of these can still be seen at Peking ; it
is there called The Temple of Heaven, the oldest
form found in China. Another exists in Central
America, known as the Temple of Set, at Tepeyollott,
Mexico, as depicted in the Borgian Codex.
The formation of this Temple is round, and on
the top is one of the Symbols or Ideographic
names of Set—the God of the South. These two
Temples —one from China and the other from
Mexico— show that the first form of the Temples
was round, and that they were dedicated to Set—
the God of the South Pole, previous to Horus— the
God of the North. They also show how widely
distributed these old Primary Stellar Mythos
people were, and that the cult was one and the
same all over the world at this time. From evi-
dences contained in the Ritual, this Primary
Cult lasted about fifty-two thousand years before
the change to the North took place. Disbelievers
should estimate how long it must have taken man
to migrate these great distances, found communi-
ties, and erect Temples. Curiously enough, the