I propose to touch lightly on the aboriginals of New South Wales, since it was recently reported in a leading Masonic journal (during the past two months) that Free-masonry as we know it, is not unknown amongst the aboriginals of Australia.
Gerald Massey, in his great work, "A Book of Beginnings, " Vol. 1, maintains that the oldest mythology, religion, symbols, language had their birth-place in Africa, and that the primitive race of Kam or Ham came thence, and the civilisation attained in Egypt emanated from that country and spread over the world:
He was successful in establishing a close relation between ancient words of Africa with those of the Maoris.
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1924- Early Freemasonry in New South Wales - Bro G W S Phillips.