The Arcana Of Freemasonry: A History of Masonic Signs and Symbols by Albert Churchward
Author:Albert Churchward [Churchward, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609254148
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2005-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
THE GAVEL.
This Symbol (FIg. 24) was the original sacred sign used amongst primitive man (see Fig. 25), the Pygmies, the original homo, who were developed in Africa from an Anthropoid Ape. I have been amongst these little people, and with them it means âThe Great One,â âThe Chief.â It is just three sticks crossed, as you see. Now, let us trace the development of this to our present day, not as a theory, but as a factâfor the evidence and proofs are still extant. In following the evolution and history of the human race Lfind that two developments have been evolved out of this original sign, yet the meaning of the symbolism is the same in each.
First, amongst some of the Nilotic Negroes who followed the Pygmy all over the world and were a higher-developed type of man. (See âOrigin and Evolution of Primitive Man.â) They converted Fig. 25 into a double cross, Fig. 26, by placing the two sticks in a different way, and it is used amongst these people as one of their most sacred signs in their Totemic Ceremonies, and has been adopted by those who followed down to our present Christian and other Cults as one of their sacred signs, and is used by Brothers of the higher degrees. The symbolism and meaning are identical all through. Amongst the Stellar Mythos people (those who first reckoned time and kept their record by observation of the precession of the seven Pole Stars) it was used in the primary form, and is an Egyptian ideograph for Amsuâi.e. it is the first name given to the risen Horus, or, as Christians would say, the risen Christ. In a later phase, in the form of a double-headed Hammer or Axe, it was a symbol of the Great One, the Great Prince.
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