If the inner secrets of Masonry do not lie in Hell where do they lie? Of course, they lie in Heaven. But Heaven needs Hell. Thus, through Craft Masonry the initiate learns that the original columns of the temple were hollow and each supported a globe, one representing a map of the world and the other a map of the heavens. In many ways the "mappamundi" produced in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries reflects this notion where one ring or circle illustrates what was known of the eastern world at that time and the western circle represents the New World - L'Arcadia. Could mappamundi refer to a world created by the Cathar god of evil - Rex Mundi, "King of the World?"

If true, then it goes a long way to explain why the lands of the New World purportedly fell along what was considered in the sixteenth century to be SATAN'S AXIS, that line beyond what was known of the world at the time. Satan's Axis not only runs lengthwise through Nova Scotia but also extends through Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and along the Allegheny Mountains - all renowned areas of early occult and witchcraft practice.

Beyond coincidence is the fact that the largest manganese and coal deposits within Nova Scotia lie along this so-called Satan's Axis. And there is the evidence presented by Barry Fell in America B.C. that the majority of pre-Columbian relics and remnants found in North America also relate to this axis.