The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

46 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
beliefs as to the life that must be led on this
earth to attain the everlasting life of happiness
in the next ; and the trials the Spirit would be
subjected to until that end was accomplished.
Although the form of our Lodges and the Ancient
Temples is the same, also the two Pillars or
Columns at the entrance, we do not have in our
M.M. Lodges the Cubes in the Centre ; but the
R.A. does, the reason being
that we have divided
the "seven Ancient Mysteries" in a different
manner than did our ancient Brethren.
Fig. 6. Fig. 7. Fig. 8.
The Triangle was sacred on account of its
representing Heaven. The Primary Triangle was
as No. 1, Fig. 6 ; and originally represented Set,
the God of the South (El Shaddai of the Phoeni-
cians), and was, in fact, an Ideograph for his
name. Horus, the God of the North, was also
represented by a triangle, as No. 2, Fig. 6, which
is also an Ideograph for his name. Later, when
Horus became Primary God, the Egyptians asso-
ciated all the attributes of Set to him, including
the Triangle of Set, and this was then depicted as
in Fig. 7, which is a later type of Fig. 8.