The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 43
by finding the Stelae of Hammurabi, handed on
from the Sumarians to the Babylonians. This
Stelae was engraved at least two thousand years
before Moses lived, and however much it may cause
a shock to some people, it is true, because this
Stelae is still extant. Our Brotherhood teaches the
same, and in the same way. The proof can be
seen in the Ritual of ancient Egypt.
Let us now see what the formations of these
early Lodges were, and the reasons for the same ;
the ceremony of their initiation ; and, lastly, their
Signs, Symbols, Secret Words ; and the ex-
planation and meaning of these.
The Brothers throughout the
world can then judge if my
contention is not right.
In the Old Stellar Cult, the
Fig. 2.
primary formation was a circle. After, when
the whole of the seven Lesser Mysteries were
taught, the formation of the Temple was " a
double square "
end to end (Fig. 2), and
the reason of this was because it represented
Heaven as a square, and the Earth as a
square, and the orientation of Temples
was South
for fifty-two thousand years ; then North for at
least two hundred and fifty thousand years. In the
centre of the Temple there were three cubes, one
above the other (Fig. 3), representing the
Primary Trinity. In some Temples
these were