The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

16 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
These were the last remnants of the old Druid
Priests— descendants of their Egyptian brethren—
who practised the pure Eschatology of their fore-
fathers. Gradually they all died out as a separate
and distinct class, and those who remained were
merged into Christianity ; but up to the twelfth
century at least they brought all their doctrines
with them, and practised them in secret places, in
so-called Lodges.
Here we have one source of the origin of Free-
masonry, both in the Lesser Mysteries (seven
Degrees) and in the ten Greater Mysteries — so-
called Higher Degrees in this country.
The Druids, in Gaul, were mostly put to the
sword, others fled to this country for protection,
when the Roman Christian doctrines were brought
to them. In America it was the same. As soon
as the Spanish Roman Priests arrived there they
persecuted all the Solar and Stellar people, murdered
their priests, overthrew their Temples, and
scattered them with fire and sword. Yet there is
sufficient evidence left in their Signs, Symbols, and
writings on the wall which prove my contention
that all these had the same Eschatology, signs,
symbols, and rites as the Old Egyptians, from
whence they came, and that all these are analogous
to our own with really very little innovation, con-
sidering the many thousands of years that these
have been handed down from country to country,