The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY 65
explain the Mystery. The key to its meaning
is the Seven Pole Stars, and the periods of
precession of the same, which was also figured as
Seven Eyes or Seven Circles, in consequence of
these being a figure of a Cycle.
As a mode of measuring time and periods
of the Great Year by the Stellar Cult, the
eye or circle came to the full "as at
"
first
seven times at seven stations of the Pole, in the
Cycle of Precession. As a type the Eye might be
full, once a month, once a quarter, once a year,
once in a thousand years ; in 2,155 years ; 3,716
years, or in the Great Eye of All—The Eye of
the Eternal once in 25,827 years (Ritual,
Ch. cxl.-cxiv.).
The submergence
of seven Pole Stars involved
the same number of ^luges, and marked the
periods of the world's existence in the Cycle of
Precession, which culminated in the great deluge
of all, not to be swallowed up in Eternity, but to
recommence again (only to be swallowed up in
Eternity when the Pole Stars cease to exist). The
Mystery
of the seven Circles is the same as the
Mystery of the seven Stars of Revelation ; it is
the Mystery of the Celestial Heptanomes
in the
Stellar Cult of the old Egyptians.
The " Second Advent " marks the time of origin
of this, which was at the time that these old
teachers had marked the end of the second revolu-
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