Masonic Egyptology and comparative symbolism

Albert Churchward

1852 – 1925

Albert Churchward was a British physician, Freemason, and comparative symbolist who argued that Freemasonry originated in ancient Egypt and that its symbols encoded a universal primordial religion. His major works — Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man (1910) and The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) — traced Masonic ritual back to Egyptian eschatology and stellar worship. He was closely associated with his brother James Churchward, the author of the Mu continent theories, and their shared framework of a lost primordial civilization influenced early 20th-century occult speculation.