The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

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the Spirits of the Four Corners, or Cardinal
Points, with whom his fold was founded (Ritual,
ch. 97). These four being added to the three
Primary made up the Seven Great Spirits of the
Stellar Cult, called the " Khuti " or " Glorious
Ones." These seven were symbolized as
(1) Sebek-Horus, the Crocodile ; (2) Set, the
Water Bull ; (3) Shu, the Lion ; (4) Hapi, the
Ape ; (5) Tuamutef, the Jackal ; (6) Kabhsenuf,
the Hawk ; (7) Amsta, the Man. Thus we have
the three Primary in the Triangle and four in
the Square = the Seven Great Spirits of Heaven
and Earth. The new Heaven was thus estab-
lished on the Four Quarters that were founded
upon the solstices and equinoxes, and
These four (1) Hapi, (2) Tuamutef, (3)
Kabhsenuf, and (4) Amsta, were stationed at the
Four Cardinal Points.
As Egyptian, they are four Great Spirits at the
four corners of the Mount of Heaven, and in
Revelation they are the " four angels standing at
the four corners of the Earth, holding
the four
winds of the Earth (Rev. vii. 1). (See later
representation in Calendar wheel of Duran.) The
Kamite Four, reproduced in Revelation as the
four living creatures— the first creature like a
Lion, the second like a Calf, the third had the
head of a Man, and the fourth creature like a
flying Eagle (Rev. iv. 7)— these four, under