The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

304 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
and representation (see Swastika supra). The
five men and the five points are Stellar, and refer
to the death of Horus, the first which is associated
with the five-pointed star (see my notes proving
the tradition of the death of Osiris was brought on
from the Stellar Horus). Of course in the Opera-
tive and Speculative the Hebrew version is re-
tained, but the original was Horus, God of the
North and South in Stellar Cult, and the Body
should be on the Two Poles of North and
South. I have discussed this in an earlier
chapter (see Fig. i, page 41). I do not
wish any Brother to believe for one moment that
because I have pointed out many innovations,
made both in Operative and Speculative, I wish
these Rituals to be altered in any way,
because I
do not ; we have used them now for some time,
and all understand, or should understand, them.
My writings are for the information of those
Brothers who wish to know the origins of these
things, and what they meant then.
I reproduce here an old plate of the Lodge
and degrees of the Operative Masons, a Solar form.
This is symbolic of a part of Amenta to the
eighth pylon only, in which the first two were communicated
mysteries
to the Initiate—
twenty-four
pylons in all. The first mystery has been divided
up into four degrees with these Operatives, " all
of whom work with their hands." The second