The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

218 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
cement used ; but others, of more acute observa-
tion, discovered that there was a very fine cement,
which was composed of granite very finely ground,
or of the same material as the principal stones
were composed of.
The Secrets of the Mysteries were to teach
man how to live here on earth, how to die, and
what he had to pass through after death before
he could finally enter Paradise, founded on the
belief of the death and disintegration of the
Corpus, and the Resurrection of the Spiritual Body
for eternity. The many eulogies that have been
showered upon Sir Oliver Lodge and the Bishop
of London, on account of their recent addresses,
prove how very little is known of the Old Egyptian
Eschatology. In neither of their addresses was
there anything new. In fact, the beliefs they ex-
pressed are as old as the Pygmies,
as I have
proved these primitive people believed in a
Supreme Being, an after life, and propitiating the
Spirits of their departed friends, as well as the
elemental powers. During the time that elapsed
from the origin of these Pygmies to that grand
evolution of Eschatology of the old Hir-Seshta,
they had trained Spiritual Clairvoyants to undergo
Hypnotism and communicate with departed spirits.
This is still practised by some men of the present
day, but it is not given to every one. In fact,
very few have sufficient courage and patience to