'the real source from whence the Ancient Wisdom came was Persia and old India, the Mother of Civilizations and Religions' - what does it mean in the context of Freemasonry? what are derived from old India?

The cable-tow originates in Albert Pike's Scottish Rite philosophy from the zennar, a sacred cord of three threads twined to make three times three, worn by initiates in ancient Indian mysteries 3. This emblem of a triune Deity is preserved in the lodge's three principal officers presiding in three quarters, as well as in its sets of three lights, jewels, and supporting pillars 3.

The Masonic expression describing lodges as extending upward to the heavens derives from a Persian custom of building temples without roofs, open to the sky 3. Pike held that the ancient Mysteries themselves originated in India before spreading through Chaldea into Egypt and Greece 3, supplying early rites and philosophical lectures later adapted into Masonic teaching 23.

Cross symbolism, found across various Masonic degrees, also carries ancient Indian roots; the cross served as an emblem of universal nature in Indian cave temples such as Elephanta long before the Christian era 1. While historians treat the direct descent of Craft Masonry from Southern Indian mysteries as one theory among many regarding its origin 2, these oriental traditions are frequently cited by esoteric scholars to explain the historical roots of lodge geometry and emblem design 23.