. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. er in themselves,and procreate new beings in the image of their highestideals; and these children are born with a natural im-pulse toward divine perfection. In the other they areprostituting their divinest endowments, committing sui-cide — spiritual and sensual — and in reality murderingtheir possible offspring. In the expressive design shown in
. Phallic worship : an outline of the worship of the generative organs, as being, or as representing, the Divine Creator, with suggestions as to the influence of the phallic idea on religious creeds, ceremonies, customs and symbolism, past and present. er in themselves,and procreate new beings in the image of their highestideals; and these children are born with a natural im-pulse toward divine perfection. In the other they areprostituting their divinest endowments, committing sui-cide — spiritual and sensual — and in reality murderingtheir possible offspring. In the expressive design shown in Figure 154, takenfrom an ancient gem, the masculine ci-eator, indicatedby the sun, and the feminine associate, symbolized bythe moon, are represented as brought hito creativeunion through the impulse of divine enthusiasm, ofwhic^h the serpent is the emblem. The moon being ex-alted, shows it to have been designed by one who 10(3 DIFFUSION AND MODIFICATION OF SYMBOLS. worshiped the feminine as snperior to the masculine —a devotee of Isis or Diva. The following beautifnl designs are also copied fromancient gems, and are each a text from which the wholesystem of ancient and modern ideas of creation, sen-sual and spiritual, might be
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