The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

56 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
measured ; metaphorically, a rule, or law, or canon,
by which the lives of men and their actions were
kept straight and governed. The ancient Brothers
thus used the word in a physical and moral sense,
as their naming it Maat clearly proves, therefore
it is an important instrument, analogous to our
own, much more so than the majority of the
Brothers would conceive.
The British inch was the unit of linear measurement
used at the building of the Great Pyramid, or
at least it is the nearest standard in existence, as
it has lost one one-thousandth part of itself after
being
carried from land to land all these thousands
of years. There is, therefore, more in it than
being an instrument to "measure our work " and
being "symbolical
of time." One inch is the time
representation of the Great Year prophetically.
Five hundred millions of the Pyramid inch is the
length of the earth's Polar diameter. Twenty-
five inches give the length of the Sacred Cubit,
5 X 5 = 25 angles of the Pyramid. The absolute
length of the Sacred Cubit is the same used by the
Israelites and spoken of in the V.S.L. as the one
ordained by God, and was brought out of Egypt by
Moses, who, being one of the High Priests of On,
knew and understood the Mysteries and Secrets of
the Great Pyramid and the Sacred Doctrines. It
was different in length to that of the Greek, Roman,
and latter-day Egyptian Cubit.