One thought that must strike every thinking Mason in the years following his entry into the Craft is the question of the great antiquity of the teaching of the Order of which he finds himself a member. By that I do not mean the Institution as reconstructed in A.D. 1717, but that universal system of initiation which we call The Ancient Mysteries and which thrived and prospered under many different names in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome and of which modern Freemasonry is the offshoot.
