The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 229
and settled in most parts of Africa, Asia, Europe,
America, North and South, and many islands of
the Pacific, and the Solar followed them into Asia,
Europe, and some parts of America. The Chinese
and most of the Japanese are still Stellar Cult
people, but now much mixed with the Solar. The
Druids, Incas, and Hindoos were all Solar Cult
people. The Druids, or Culdees, existed here until
quite a modern date, and then some of their Priests
joined
the Christian Church. The oldest churches
in the West of England and other places bear
witness of how they brought over some of their
Sacred Signs and Symbols with them, introducing
the same as Symbols
of the new Cult.
During the dark and degenerate ages of nearly
five thousand years, records were destroyed ; we
have no history of the past hundreds of thousands
of years of this world's existence. Socialism crept
in after the dissensions amongst the Priests themselves,
followed by fire arid sword, and the destruc-
tion of literature, arts, and sciences followed. This
has always been the history of past great nations.
History repeats
itself. But our Brotherhood has
inherited a sacred legacy ; after being scattered
over the face of the earth and water, we have
come together again, in spite of the persecution of
the Roman Priesthood, and it now rests with the
if we
Brotherhood throughout the world to say
shall in the future establish that one human