The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

38 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
II.—The Source of Signs and Symbols.
By going back to primitive man, the Pygmy, we
find the first symbol we use. He believed in the
Supreme Spirit and propitiated elemental powers.
In the stage of the Nilotic Negro we find more of
our Signs and Symbols. Following the evolution
to that of Totemic Sociology, and commencement
of the Stellar Cult, we have still many more Signs,
Symbols and Rites of our Order, and the whole
tale of the Christian doctrines founded. Because
it was amongst the Masai group in Inner Africa
that the tradition arose, and is still extant, that the
Man- God came from Heaven, suffered, and was
crucified and rose again. .We must remember that
man at this time had very few words to express
his ideas and beliefs ;• it was done by signs and
symbols, and Sign Language, and although this
has been lost for thousands of years, it is now
being rediscovered by men who can read this Sign
Language. The Solar Cult and the Christian Cult,
which have followed one another, have not in either
case altered the tale, it is all one and the same
from the beginning ; that names have altered is
nothing, different languages have different names
for the same idea, and because the attributes of
the One Great God were expressed in " Zootype
form" during the Stellar Cult, and "Gods and
Goddesses " in the Solar, whilst at the present day