. 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. usiasm, not an action ;a prompter, not a performer, it isseldom found as a simple or Isolatedsymbol. Even as a ring or braceletit is nothing — unless Avorn. TheFig, 143. meaning of the serpent must, there- fore, be learned from its associated emblems; andthen, also, from its form, position, and prominence,whether superior or subordinate to those
. 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. usiasm, not an action ;a prompter, not a performer, it isseldom found as a simple or Isolatedsymbol. Even as a ring or braceletit is nothing — unless Avorn. TheFig, 143. meaning of the serpent must, there- fore, be learned from its associated emblems; andthen, also, from its form, position, and prominence,whether superior or subordinate to those that aregrouped with it. It would be most interesting to trace fully the sym-bolism of the serpent, but the phallic idea is the onlyone appropriate to the present work. The serpent having been recognized as a sacredanimal or emblem, it would, as a matter of course, becarefully studied, and all its jjeculiarities closely ob-served. As it casts its skin and thus seemingly renewsits youth every year, and as it is remarkably tenaciousof life, and as its bite is usually fatal — thus showing-great power— it came to be recognized as an appro-pi-iate symbol of life, generative potency, and immor-tality. 102 DIFFUSION AND MODIFICATION OF The serpent, with his tail in his month, with orwitliont a motto, is a veryg-eneral emblem. It originallysymbolized the passion whichprompts sexnal activity, andthus the perpetuation of therace. It also suggests theFig-1^*- animal side of humanity min- istering to, sustaining, and upbuilding the divine man-hood ; and from these meanings it easilycame to mean immortality, future life,and eternity. Figure 145 reproducesa Hindu emblem of the masculine andfeminine principles united by the divineimpulse of propagation. It also fies wisdom — intelligent, useful, pleas- ant activity. The linga, with two serpents twined around it. Fig-ure IIG, is a very old and still common em-blem. It is variously called the (Jaduceus ofMercury
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