[10] There are many books in this field, but two may be named: _The Lost Language of Symbolism_, by Bayley, and the _Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man_, by Churchward, each in its own way remarkable. The first aspires to be for this field what Frazer's _Golden Bough_ is for religious anthropology, and its dictum is: "Beauty is Truth; Truth Beauty." The thesis of the second is that Masonry is founded upon Egyptian eschatology, which may be true; but unfortunately the book is too polemical. Both books partake of the poetry, if not the confusion, of the subject; but not for a world of dust would one clip their wings of fancy and suggestion. Indeed, their union of scholarship and poetry is unique. When the pains of erudition fail to track a fact to its lair, they do not scruple to use the divining rod; and the result often passes out of the realm of pedestrian chronicle into the world of winged literature. [11] _The Word in the Pattern_, Mrs. G.F. Watts. [12] _The Swastika_, Thomas Carr. See essay by the same writer in which he shows that the Swastika is the symbol of the Supreme Architect of the Universe among Operative Masons today (_The Lodge of Research_, No. 2429, Transactions, 1911-12). [13] _Signs and Symbols_, Churchward, chap. xvii. [14] Here again the literature is voluminous, but not entirely satisfactory. A most interesting book is _Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man_, by Churchward, in that it surveys the symbolism of the race always with reference to its Masonic suggestion. Vivid and popular is _Symbols and Legends of Freemasonry_, by Finlayson, but he often strains facts in order to stretch them over wide gaps of time. Dr. Mackey's _Symbolism of Freemasonry_, though written more than sixty years ago, remains a classic of the order. Unfortunately the lectures of Albert Pike on _Symbolism_ are not accessible to the general reader, for they are rich mines of insight and scholarship, albeit betraying his partisanship of the Indo-Aryan race. Many minor books might be named, but we need a work brought up to date and written in the light of recent research. [15] Exod. 20:25. [16] _Antiquities of Cornwall_, Borlase. [17] _Lost Language of Symbolism_, Bayley, chap, xviii; also in the Bible, Deut. 32:18, II Sam. 22:3, 32, Psa. 28:1, Matt. 16:18, I Cor. 10:4. [18] _Tree and Pillar Cult_, Sir Arthur Evans. [19] I Sam. 2:8, Psa. 75:8, Job 26:7, Rev. 3:12. [20] _Freemasonry in China_, Giles. Also Gould, _His. Masonry_, vol. i, chap. i. [21] _Chinese Classics_, by Legge, i, 219-45. [22] Essay by Chaloner Alabaster, _Ars Quatuor Coronatorum_, vol. ii, 121-24. It is not too much to say that the Transactions of this Lodge of Research are the richest storehouse of Masonic lore in the world. [23] Matt. 16:18, Eph. 2:20-22, I Cor. 2:9-17. Woman is the house and wall of man, without whose bounding and redeeming influence he would be dissipated and lost (Song of Solomon 8:10). So also by the mystics (_The Perfect Way_). [24] Heb. 3:4.