Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry

8."Study of the American constellations Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricornus, reveals the immemorial antiquity of the name of America, and the significance of the arms of the United States. The fact once recognized that it is impossible to separate the Eagle from America — the "Land shadowed with wings " of Isaiah, over which accordingly appear two grand eagles, the red swan flying down the milky way, and the winged steeds, Pegasus, and Equelus, all the wings known to astronomy — without taking the Bear from Russia, Perseus from Persia, and a flood of light is poured upon the history and mythology; and where heretofore much has been vague and inscrutable, now we are able at least, to see men, as trees, walking.

9."When, following the course of the constellations, those immovably and perpetually fastened upon America are reached, it will appear that, while all that is sublime in the historic past centers upon Egypt, all that is sublime in the prehistoric past centers upon ^[27] America (Atlantis); and as the curtain which has hitherto concealed the prehistoric connection between the peoples of ancient Egypt and of America, is lifted, it will be seen that, the people of the Eagle on the Nile being descended from the original people of the Eagle on this Continent, the twain are one, and that prehistoric America was the Original Egypt or Eagle-land, prior to the mighty dispensation* in the days of Peleg, when the earth was divided, and the great globe itself was nearly rent asunder. " **

10.Says Agassiz: "First born among continents, America has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the Waters, hers was the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth besides; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America (Atlantis) already stretched in an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the far West."