The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

252 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
into four quarters with a Glyph — Ideographic name
of Horus. This figure, however, is a much later
representation, and those that formed it must have
lost much of the original symbolism.
I think what I have here written and shown is
sufficient proof of my contention as to the origin,
interpretation, and importance attached to the Four
Cardinal Points. The majority of our Brotherhood
can only read the
'
Marchen," but if they wish
for the truth they must go back and find the origin
of " these Myths," to Old Egypt. Nowhere else
can they find the explanation.
The above, I hope, will evince to the Brother-
hood that although we make direct usage in our
ceremonies of the Four Cardinal Points, and
although they have hitherto lost the reason for so
doing,
I have now restored it to them. It will
prove that there is a good authority for doing
so, one far deeper
and more abstruse than most
of them imagined, brought on from the Old Stellar
Cult Brothers.
Whatever incredulity some may feel, or
scepticism expressed by others, remember we must
instigate faithful introspection of these hidden
mysteries if we wish for veracity, honesty, and
fidelity, i.e. systematic coherence, and these points
have been my aim. I write for the good and
information of the Brotherhood throughout the
world, endeavouring to inculcate what Free-