The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

306 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
mystery has also been divided up into four degrees,
" all of whom work with their heads or brains."
In other words, you have here the working or
Operative Lodge, based upon the Eschatological,
with Esoteric rendering in working and build-
ing. All of the first four degrees here are work-
ing, and carry out the plans of the Architect,
Mathematician, Geometrician, and Superintendent
of the other four degrees. Thus you will under-
stand my meaning when I ,have stated that these
Operatives were initiated into the first and second
Mysteries only. Their Lodge proves this, having
only the representation of the eight pylons (see
Ritual of Ancient Egypt). This form of their
Lodge is Solar, and not the old Stellar form. I
do not know if they have the old Stellar Lodge
formation or not, but they will find it amongst
the Mendozas at the present day. The orientation
of the oldest Stellar Lodge was first South and
then North ; when they changed to East they
had adopted part of the Solar signs and symbols,
and mixed them with the old Stellar, because it
must be clearly understood that these old Operative
Masons were constituted as such, by the Old
Stellar Priests, and came into existence at the
time of the early Stellar Cult. There is no trace
in the Egyptian Ritual, or anywhere else, that
I have been able to discover, of their being recon-
structed again in the Solar, or any of the other