The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

226 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
life give a bad odour to my name. And lo !
though he be buried in the deep, deep grave, and
bowed down to the region of annihilation, he is
glorified, then— lo, how great art Thou—The
Triumphant One."
This shows and proves it was the Stellar Cult.
" The Mother " it was, and not " The Father."
The Father had not yet come into being —not until
the Solar Cult. The Glorious Ones, or
'
the
Divine Circle," were those attributes of Horus
represented symbolically by the Stars of Ursa
Minor. This text is very old, and there is one
copy on a Scroll in the British Museum.
If we merely consider the tokens of recognition,
the passwords, secret words, and the decorations
of the Lodges, according to the degrees
into which
Modern Masonry is divided, we find that many
of them are taken from the V. of the S.L., and are
symbolical of events, real or imaginary, some of
which are said to have taken place in those com-
paratively modern times which followed the decline
and destruction of the old Egyptian Empire, and
marked the commencement of the Christian Era,
others as having occurred before the Christian Cult
commenced, others at the building of King Solomon's
Temple. All of which, some think, and
have stated, have nothing to do with the religious
Mysteries of the Egyptians that were in existence
many hundreds of thousands of years before.