The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

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THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 57
Freemasons, perhaps,
unknown to most of them-
selves, have been the custodians of the secrets
connected with it from the original, through ages
of time. Thus we see that the standard and unit
of linear measurement, used at the building of
the Great Pyramid (during the Stellar Cult), from
which the British inch was derived in primeval
days of purity and Eschatological worship, before
the people fell away from their true doctrines, has
been handed down by us pure and unsullied. The
Incas, Mayas, and all the Old Stellar Cult people
before them, possessed and used this same measure.
The great attempt of the French people to abolish
alike the Christian religion and hereditary weights
and measures of all nations ; to replace the former
by worship of philosophy, and the latter by the
metre (the French metre scheme depending, in
a certain manner of their own, upon the magnitude
of the earth), is not very old, nor yet an improvement
upon the exactness in measurement of these
Egyptian people
; because, by assuming as their
unit and standard of length, the one ten-millionth
of a "quadrant of the earth's surface," that took a
curved line drawn on the earth's surface, in place
the straight axis of rotation, it could not be so
exact, and, in fact, is far inferior in measurement.
The British hereditary inch, therefore, is much
nearer and more exact to an integral earth measure.
As long as one retains a power of geometry, so