The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

258 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
in front, in the form of a triangle. These Opera-
tives included all kinds of workmen required to
build these Temples — Blacksmiths, Masons, Car-
penters,
etc. Remnants of these still exist at the
present day in Africa, the Kaverondo Blacksmiths,
who possess all the old secrets.
Whenever an exodus of these old Stellar Cult
people from Egypt took place, they were accom-
panied by a full complement of these old builders,
or Operatives, as well as by a priest. These priests
possessed all the secrets of the mathematical and
geometrical figures
that could be constructed out
of, or by placing together, their Sacred Signs and
Symbols in various ways,
as well as the Eschato-
of the same. That is the reason
logical explanation
we find all the old Temples in Africa, Europe,
Asia, Central and South America were built on
the same plans during the Stellar Cult. During
the Solar these were changed, and that probably
accounts for some of the Solar Symbols now used
by these old Stellar Cult Masons ; but although
they have some of the Solar Cult Symbols, they
still use a Stellar application, or definition, as far
as they can to them.
The frieze of the Temple of Xochicales in Mexico
is a good and typical example of a Stellar Cult
building with Iconographic carvings, etc., well por-
trayed. (The reason for these Iconographic
depictions was that in the Stellar Cult the Great