The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

64 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
that this was the first representative of our
Masonic Temple. Those who erected and looked
after the construction of the Temple were
styled " Companions." Thus we see that our word
T.C. is a substituted name. The original and
real " Great Master in Metals
'
was " Horus of
Edfu "— or " Horus-Behutet." I have given the
above fully as an example of the falsity of some
of the secret names we have substituted for the
originals. Many
other words which we have
adopted have no relation or meaning
to the
originals.
But the meaning of the mysteries could only be
known whilst the genuine gnosis was authentically
taught. This had ceased when the Christian
Sarcolatry Jiteralized the mystic drama of Amenta,
the Earth of Eternity, as a more tangible-looking
human history and a new revelation sent from
God. Yet it is at least six hundred thousand
years old. From these mysteries
the ceremonies
of the Masonic Brotherhood have been handed
down from generation to generation ; re-edited
and altered only to conform with our present ideas
— "
as, for instance, the statement : The six periods
of the world's existence, now about to close with
the second advent, when time shall be swallowed
up in Eternity," has no meaning, nor has it any
significance in its present form.
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