The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

216 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
seven steps, leading up to this. In most cases the
Temple was open at the top to the vaults of heaven,
so that a " Plumb Line "
might come straight
from the Pole Star to the central altar. The seven
steps represent in the Egyptian " The Khuti,"
or the seven Glorious Ones— attributes of the G. A.
of the U., whose house is situated within this cir-
cumpolar enclosure. They also represent the seven
Great — Spirits the seven Sciences— the seven Eyes
—and many other sevens of the Scriptures. The
twelve Camps, and the twelve Banners of the
Children of Israel represent the original characters
in the Stellar Astronomical Mythology, and were
given first to the twelve Thrones, or divisions of
heaven in the Stellar Cult, and in the Zodiac
in the Solar. Thus, at first, they represented
twelve Stellar Powers, and that is the reason we
find the twelve Stones in these Circles. The
original characters in the Astronomical Mytho-
logy that were given the twelve Thrones, or Camps,
with separate and distinctive Banners in Zootype
form, in Egyptian are Set, Horus, Shu, Hapi, Ap-
uat, Kabhsenuf, Amsta, Anup, Ptah, Atum, Sau,
and Hu. These were the Kamite originals, brought
on and converted into the Banners of the Twelve
Camps, or Tribes, of Israel. The four principal
Banners in the R.A.C., depicting the man, lion, ox,
and eagle, took their origin from the four Brothers
or Children of Horus. These are to be found