The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 53
One of the earliest Ideographs for Set, El
Shaddai, and Horus were the two Eyes (see
Fig. 13), symbols of the two Pole Stars, North
and South, originating at Apta, or at
of the Equinox
the Mount
— Equatorial Africa. Another
Ideograph was the two Poles— the Pole or Pillar
of the South, assigned to Set, and the Pillar or
Pole of the North, assigned to Horus (Fig. 15),
the two Tatt Pillars. The Ideograph for the
name of Set, as El Shaddai, was as No. 1, Fig. 6,
and that for the name of Horus was as No. 2,
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Fig. 13. Fig. 14.
A 1
Fig. 15.
Fig. 6. Fig. 10 was also an Ideographic Symbol
for Horus, as Amsu, but was never attached to, or
associated with, the God Set or El Shaddai.
The reason why the Operative Masons have gone
wrong in this part of their ritual is that they have
mixed up the Gods of the four quarters with the
One Great God. These only represented attributes ;
and they have also mixed up the God of the
Pole Star South, El Shaddai, with the God of the
Pole Star North, which was Horus, or Ihuh, of
Israel, or Iu, Ea, of the Chaldeans, Assyrians,
and Babylonians, which is later than the Sumarian