The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

12 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
years. This is proved by the fact that skeletons
of Stellar Mythos people were found in Lombardy
in the Pliocene strata— and the above is a low
estimate for that.
Now we find from these old Temples that all our
Signs and Symbols were in use then just as we
use them now ; there is no difference, except that
in some cases we have slightly modernised them.
Their Rituals, with slight modifications, were the
same as ours.
Here we see Krause's theory not without some
semblance of plausibility, as Rome, during several
centuries, held sway over Gaul and Britain.
Roman colonists settled in various parts of these
countries, and with their language and customs
they imported many
of their institutions and
associations. That of the Builders, or Collegia,
held their Lodges wherever they established them-
selves, and no doubt initiated new members, and
as these countries freed themselves from the yoke
of Rome the associations would still remain. But
they at best were only carriers of the " operative
masons "— Egypt was their birthplace, and we can
identify
the Nome as the seventeenth Nome from
the Ritual, these names, for instance,
" Com-
panions "— carried out of Egypt by the Turanians,
who spread over Europe ; Asia, except the North ;
lower part of North America, Central America,
South America, as far down as Chili, in the