The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

256 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
each different. There cannot be any comparison
drawn. The whole of the Operative working is
the first and second Mysteries only out of the seven
—later twelve— of the old Stellar Cult people, with
some innovations from the Solar Cult. The ex-
planations and uses of the ancient Signs and
Symbols given to them was for Operative work
alone.
The Speculative is the Ritual and Eschatological
rendering of these seven, and later twelve, Mysteries
in the Stellar, and all the Mysteries in the
Solar, the latter being a continuation of the former,
as the result of progressive evolution of thought
to a higher degree.
The orientation of the Speculative Temples was
originally South, then North, and finally East ;
they corresponded to the changes from the primary
god Set at the South Pole to Horus at the North
Pole, and then finally changing from North to
East in the form of Atum-Iu. With the Operatives
their primary orientation for Temples must have
been South first and then changed to the North,
because their word " '
El Shaddai signifies Set,
God of the South and not the North, although
they still carry on this name as God of the North
Pole Star. This is not correct. It should be
Horus-Khuti, or Horus Behutet, or Horus Anup.
The Operatives have changed their position from
North to East in working their ceremonies the