The arcane schools : a review of their origin and antiquity; with a general history of Freemasonry and its relation to the theosophic, scientific, and philosophic mysteries / by John Yarker.
- John Yarker
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The arcane schools : a review of their origin and antiquity; with a general history of Freemasonry and its relation to the theosophic, scientific, and philosophic mysteries / by John Yarker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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!['find equally the same widespread distribution of geomet- rical symbols intended to typify Theosophical truths, and embracing cosmogony and creation. It is held that each symbol represented a letter, a colour, a number and a sound, thus constituting an esoteric hieroglyphic under- stood by the Initiates of every country. As an example we might easily arrange a set of very ancient symbols forming little understood Masonic emblems, and equally carved by operative masons on the ancient ruins of Asia, India, and Egypt, and these might again be applied on the plan of the old Philosophers to the recondite mysteries of nature. Take the following as numerals :—• I, II or V.A.n,A. or 0. (D 10. In mystic crosses of equal antiquity with all our other emblems we find the following forms, namely, .=1^ ‘^.T. t X E t. 0 t. each having special application to a dogma. We have already made slight allusion to the Cabiri, and all authorities are agreed that the Mysteries prac- tised under this name were allied with the Cyclopean Masonry and its builders, and that those Rites and Build- ings, in all countries, were the religion and architecture of a primitive race which preceded the Aryan invasions of Media, Babylon, India, Greece, and Egypt. The primi- tive inhabitants of Babylon, whom it has been agreed to term Akkadian, were more nearly allied in blood, language, and religion, with the Finlanders, Mongolians, early Egyptians, proto-Medes, Pelasgi, Etruscans, perhaps also American Indians, all so-called Turanian, than they were with the Elamites, Ethiopians, Arabians, and other Semites, or with the Hindu, Persian, and other Aryan races, that appear later on in the pages of resuscitated history. Yet there are actual traces of speculative Free- masonry, intimately allied with the religious Mysteries, amongst these primitive proto-Aryans. A clear explana- tion of these particulars does not admit of being printed, but every intelligent Free-Mason will be able to read]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24886002_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
