The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 39
these are expressed in words, does not alter the
meaning, ideas, or beliefs ; these are only altered
and misunderstood by men who cannot read and
understand "The Writings on the Walls"; and
as regards dates, few, I believe, now would even
think or believe that man has only existed about
six thousand years, as assumed from Biblical
tradition, when we find the skeletons of the present
type of man in strata of the Pliocene age, six
hundred thousand years old at least. 1 Therefore
whatever Cult our Brothers may have belief in,
the knowledge of the evolution of the human race
would only be a greater factor to strengthen their
belief. If we take the Chinese, and there are
many Brothers amongst them, we know that they
went out from Egypt during the Stellar Cult, and
they have never risen in evolution since. The
Hindu left at the time of the Solar Cult ; he has
always remained the same. The white race,
generally, left at the end of the Solar. The early
Copts were the first of the Christians in evolution,
and the white man has gradually developed into a
higher type of the human. With this development
into a higher type of man, so his spiritual ideas have
developed into a so-called higher type of Christianity
than that which we find at the commence-
ment of the time of the early Copts. Yet it
1 See "Genesis of Rocks and Ores," by Brenton Symons,
F.G.S., C.M.E.