SECTION II.

Adam-Adami.
Nahbs such as Adam-Adami, used by Dr. Chwolsohn in his Nabathean Agriculture and derided by M. Renan. may prove little to the profane. To the Occultist, however, once that the term 15 found in a work of such immense antiquity as that above cited, it proves a good deal. It proves, for instance, that Adami was a manifold symbol, onginating with the Aryan people, as the root word shows, and having been taken from them by the Semites and the Turanians — as many other things were.
Adam-Adami is a generic compound name as old as language is. The Secret Doctrine teaches that Ad-i was the name given by the Aryans to the first speaking race of mankind, in this Round. Hence the terms Adonim and Adonai (the ancient plural form of the word Adon). which the Jews applied to their Jehovah and Angels, who were simply the first spiritual and ethereal sons of the Earth, and the God Adonis, who in his many variations stood for the ** First I,ord." Adam is the Sanskrit Adi-Nath, also meaning First Lord, as Ad-Ishvara, or any Ad (the First) prefixed to an adjective or substantive. The reason for this is that such truths were a common inheritance. It was a revelation received by the first mankind before that time which, in biblical phraseology, is called '*the period of one lip and word," or speech; knowledge expanded by man's own intuition later on, still later hidden from profauation uuder an adequate symbolog)'. The author of the Qabbatak, according to the philosophical writings of Ibn Gebirol, shows the Israelites using Ad-onaj' (A Do Na Y), **Lord," instead of Eh'yeh, "I am,'* and YHVH, and adds that, while Adonai is rendered "I/)rd" in Xh^ Bible,
The lowest designation, or the Deity in Nature, the more general term Elohim, ia translated God.*
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of the Argians; it was also one of the names of the Moon in Egypt.
Says Jablonski:
ID* loh, ^gyptiis Lunam significal neque kabeHi iUh in communi semumis usti^ aliud nomen quo Lunam designeni prtrter lO. i
The Pillar and Circle (10). which with Pythagoras was the perfect number contained in the Tetraktj'S,* became later a precniintntly pkallic number — amongst the Jews, foremost of all, with whom it is the male and female Jehovah.
This is how a scholar explains it:
I 6nd^on the Rosetta stone of Uhlemann, the word mooth (also in Seiffarth), the name of tlie moon, used as a cycle of time, hence the lunar month, from the hieroglyph f\y\ with -^ and Qasdelenaiuatives,given astheCoptic I O H, or I O H. The Hebrew "^^n may also be used as I O H. for the letter vau O) was used for 0 and for ». and for v or w. This, before the Massora, of which the point ( '\ was used as 1 = o. ^ = u, and T = v or w. Now I had worked it out by original search that the Kreat distinctive function of the god of the influence of the moon as the causative of gencraiion^ and as of its exact value as a lunar year in the natural measure of days, as you will fully see, . . . And here comes this linguistic same word from a source far more ancient; vi*.» the Coptic, or rather from the old Egyptian in time of the Coptict
This is the more remarkable when Egyptology compares this with the little which it knows about the Theban Triad — composed of Ammon. Mooth (or Moot), and their son Khonsoo. This Triad was, when united, contained in the Moon as their common symbol; and when separated, it was Khonsoo who was the God lyunus, being thus con- founded with Thoth and Phtah. His mother Moot — the name signifying "Mother," by the bye, and not the Moon, which was only her symbol — is called the '*Queen of Heaven," the "Virgin," etc., as she is an aspect of Isis. Hathor, and other Mother Goddesses. She was less the wife than the mother of Ammon, whose distinct title is the "husband of his mother." In a statuette at Boulaq, Cairo, this Triad is represented as a mummy-god holding in his hand three different sceptres, and bearing the lunar disk on his head, the characteristic tress of hair showing the design of representing it as that of an in/ant God, or the "Sun," in the Triad. He was the God of Destinies in Thebes, and appears under two aspects (i) as Khonsoo, the Lunar God, and Lord of Thebes, Nofir- hotpoo, "he who is in absolute repose," and (2) as "Khonsoo p. iri-sokhroo," or "Khonsoo, who executes Destiny"; the former pre-
* Thi* is coiBpoa»l of ten dots arranged triaDgularly Ln four row*. Uie Western KsbKllsls. t From an US.
It ij the TetrBsrminiiutan of
THB GOD lAO. j^
paring the events and conceiving them for those born under his genera- tive influence, the latter putting them into action.* Under theogonic permutations Ammon becomes Horus. Hor-Ammon, and Moot(h)-Isis is seen suckling him in a statuette of the Saitic period.t In his turn, in this transformed Triad, Khonsoo becomes Thoth-Lunus, "he who operates salvation." His brow is crowned with the head of an ibis decorated with the lunar disk and the diadem called lo-tef (io-tef)4
Now all these symbols are certainly found reflected in (some believe them identical with) the Yave, or Jehovah of the Bible. This will be made plain to anyone who reads The Source of Measures, or "The Hebrew-Egyptian Myster>',*' and understands its undeniable, clear, and mathematical proofs that the esoteric foundations, or the system used in the building of the Great Pyramid, and the architectural measurements in the Temple of Solomon (whether the latter be mythical or real), Noah's Ark, and the Ark of the Covenant, are the same. If anything in the world can settle the dispute that the old, as much as the later Post-Babylonian, Jews, and especially the former, built their Theogony and Religion on the very same foundation as did all the Pagans, it is the work in question.
And now it may be as well to remind the reader of what we said of lAO in Isis Unveiled:
No other deity affords such a variety of etymologies as laho, nor is there any name which can be so variously pronounced. It is only by associating it with the Maaoretic points that the later Rahbins succeeded in making Jehovah read "AdonaJ"— or Lord. Philo Byhlus spells it in Greek letters lEYO— lEVO. Theodoret says that the Samaritans pronounced it Iab€ (\'ahva), and the Jews Yaho ; which would make it as we have shown, I — Ah — O. Diodonis states that "among the Jews they relate that Moses called the God lAO." It is on the authority of the Bible itself, that we maintain that, before liis initiation by Jethro, his father-in-law, Moses had never known the word Iaho.(
The above receives corroboration in a private letter from a very learned Kabalist. In our first volume,|| it is stated that exotericallj' Brahma (neuter), so flippantly and so often confused by the Orientalists
" Sw O. Mupfra, Guidt an Mmiie BouiOQ, 1BS4, p. 168, No. 1991.
-«- Ibid., p. 169, No. 199B
t Ibid., p. 173. No. m68.
) The student mnat be awmre that Jethro is not called the "father-in-law" Gt Moves because Uoscs was really married to one of his seven daughters. Moses naa an Initiate, tf be ever existed, and as such ■a Aacetic, a Nazar, and could never have been married. It i« au allegory like everything else. ZIpporab (tbe "%hininz") in one of the personified Occult Sciencca ffiven by Reucl-Jethro. the Midian prient Initiator, to Mosca, hi* Eiryplian pupil. The "well" by which Moses sat down in his flight from the Pharaoh symboliie* the " Well of Knowledge."
il t. pp. X06- 108 and claewberc.
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with Brahmfi (the male), is sometimes called Kila-hansa, the "Swan in Eternity," and the Esoteric meaning of Aham-sa. is given as "I [am] he," So- ham being equal to Sah "he/* and Aham "I" — a mystic anagram and permutation. It is also the "four-faced" Brahma, the Chatur-mukham (the Perfect Cube) forming itself within, and /ram, tlie Infinite Circle; and again the use of the i, 3. 5, and ; = 14, as the Esoteric Hierarchy of the Dhyfin Chohans, is explained. On this, the said correspondent comments in the following manner:
Of the I, 3, 5, and twice 7, intending, and verj- especially, 135 14, which on a circle may be read as 31415 (or tt value), I think there cannot be a possibility of doubting; and especially when considered with symbol marks on Sacr',* "Chakra," or Circle of Vishnu.
But let me cany your description a step further: You say, "The One from the Egg, the Shr, and the Five.f give the numbers 1065, the value of the First-bom." If it be 80, then in 1065 we have the famous Jehovah's name, the Jve or Jave, or Jupiter, and by change of H to D, or A to n, then "^ID or the Latin Jun or Juno, tlic base of the Chinese riddle, the key measuring numbers of Sni (Sinai) and Jehovah coming down on that Mount, which numbers (1065) are but the use of our ratio of 113 to 355. because 1065 = 355 x 3 which is circumference to a diameter of 1x3 X 3 — 539. Thus the first bom of Brahmd-Prajdpati (or any Demiurgus) indi- cates a measuring use of a circular relation taken from the Chakra (or Vishnu) and, as stated above, the Divine Manifestation takes the form of Life and the First-born.
It is a most singular thing: At the entrance passage to the King's Chamber the measurement from the surface of the Great StepJ and the Grand Gallery to the top of the said Gallery is, by the very careful measures of Hazzi Smyth, 339 inchea.
Take (X as a centre and with this radius describe a circle; the diameter of that circle will be 339 x 2 = 678, and these numbers are those of the ex- pression and the raven, in the "dove and raven** scenes or pictures of the Flood of Noah; (the radius is taken to show division into two parts, which are 1065 each) for 113 {man) x 6 = 678, and the diameter to a circumference of 1065 x 2 — so we have here an indication of cosmic man on this high grade or step, at the entrance of the King's Chamber (the Holy of Holies) — which is the Ufomb. Now this passage is of such a height that a man to enter it fnust stoop. But a man upright is 113. and broken, or stooping, he becomes ^-^s ^ 5^.5 ©r j^^ x 10 (iTliT), or Jehovah. That is, he personifies^ him
* In Hcbrrw the phallic symbol Un^ani and Yonl.
•r Sec Vol. J, SUnsa IV. Shloka 3.
} It is at that Step that one arrives on the plane of the level or floor and open entrance to the King's Chamber, the Egyplia" "Holy of HoUei."
I The Candidate for Initiation always personified the God of the Temple he belonged to, as the High Priest perRonified the God at all limes; just oa the Pope now penionatet Peier and eren Jenui Christ upon entering the inner »ancltiaT7— the Chrittiaa "Holy of Holies."
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as entering the Holy of Holies. But by Hebrew Rsotcriciam the chief function of Jehovah wa-s child giving, etc, and that because, by the number. was the measure of the lunar year, which cycle of time — because by its factor of 7 (seven) it ran so coordinately with the periods of the quickening, viability, and ]^estation— was taken as the causative of the generative action and therefore was worshipped and besought.
This discovery connects Jehovah still more with all the other Creative and Generative Gods, Solar and Lunar, and especially with ''King" Soma, the Hindu Deus Lunus, the Moon, because of the Esoteric influence attributed to this Planet in Occultism. There are other corroborations of this, however, in Hebrew tradition itself. Adam is spoken of in the More Nevochim (or "Guide of the Perplexed"— truly!) of Maimonides in two aspects; as a man. like all others born of a man and a woman, and — as the Prophet of the Moon ; the reason of which is now made apparent, and has to be explained.
Adam, as the supposed great "Progenitor of the Human Race." is, as Adam Kadmon, made in the intag^e of God — a priapic image, there- fore. The Hebrew words Sacr* and N'cabvah are, literally translated, Lingam (^Phallus) and Yoni (Ctei's), notwithstanding their translation in the Bible "male and female."* As said there, "God creates 'man in his own image* in the image of God created he him; male aitd female created he them" — the androgyne Adam Kadmon. Now this kabalistic name is not that of a living man, nor even of a human or divine Being, but of the two sexes or organs of procreation, called in Hebrew with that usual sincerity of language preeminently biblical, Sacr' and N'cabvahf; these two being, therefore, the image under which the "Lord God" appeared usually to his chosen people. That this is so, is now undeniably proven by almost all the sjinbologists and Hebrew scholars as well as by the Kabalah. Therefore Adam is n one sense Jehovah. This makes plain another general tradition in the East mentioned in Gregorie's Notes and Observations upon several Passages in Scripture.X and quoted by Hargrave Jennings in his Phallicism:
That Adam was commanded by God that hia dead body should be kept above ground till a fulness of time should come to commit it .... to the middle of the earth by a priest of the Most High Go«l. . . .
• Gentsu, \. rj.
r Jehovah says to Moses: "the stimmatlon of my name U uicr. the carrier or the fcerm"— phatlna. "Itii . . . . the vehicle of enunciation, and tnily cnou8:h, as the larr, or carrier of the germ, ft- use pa/ued down throufirh &gvM lo the sacT'/actum of the Roman pricst« and the iocr-fice, and iocr-ment of the Engluh speaking race." {Source of Metumrei, p. 336.) Heuce marriage is a sacrttwunt In the Greek and Roman Churches,
t 4to, l.oiidon, i6&(. vol. i. pp. 120, 121.
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Therefore,
Noah daily prayed in the Ark before the "Body of Adam" — •
or before the Phallus in the Ark. or Holy of Holies, again. He who is a Kabalist and accustomed to the incessant permutation of biblical names, once they are interpreted numerically and symbolically, will understand what is meant.
The two word* of which Jehovah is composed, make up the original idea of mole- female, as birth-originator, for the "* was the vwmbrum firiU and Hovah was Ev€^' So . . . the perfect one, as originator of measures, takes also the form of ^rtl -origin, as hermaphrodite om; hence, the phallic use of form.t
iJesides, the same author shows and demonstrates numerically and geometrically that (a) Arets, *'earth,'* Adam, "man," and H-adam-h, are cognate with each other, and are personified in the Bible under one form, as the Egyptian and Hebrew Mars, God of Generation;! and (^) that Jehovah, or Jah, is Noah, for Jehovak is Noah in Hebrew would be n3\ or literally in English, Inch,
The above affords, then, a key to the said traditions. Noah, a divine permutation, the supposed Saviour of Humanity, who carries in his Ark or Argha (the Moon), the germs of all living things, worships before the "Body of Adam," which body is the image of the Creator, and a Creator itself. Hence Adam is called the "Prophet of the Moon," the Argha or "Holy of Holies" of the Yod 0). This also shows the origin of the Jewish popular belief that the face of Moses is in ifie Moon — f.^., the spots in the Moon. For Moses and Jehovah are kabalistically once more permutations, as has been shown. Says the author of The Source of Measures:
There is one fact in regard to Moses and his works too important to be omitted. When he is instructed by the Lord as to his mission, the power name assumed by the Deity is, f tim thai / am, the Hebrew words being
a various reading of mrp. Now, Moses is nB?D, and equals
345-
Add the values of the new form of the name Jehovah, ai + 501 + 21 = 543, or, by a reverse reading, 345; thus showing Moses to be a form of Jehovah in this com- bination. 31 -r 2 = 105, or. reversed, 501, so that the asher or the that in lam-that- J am is simply a guide to a use of 21 or 7 x 3.501" = 251 +, a very valuable pyramid number, etcf
I
Op. c$t., p. 67. t SoHtxd of MMumrej, 159. j Op, cit., p. 187. \ Qp. cU^ p. wju
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For a clearer explanation for the benefit of Non-Kabalists we put it thus: •' I am that I am" is in Hebrew:
Ahiye Asher Ahiye
n ^ rt H TOM n"«n»
5 ID 5 I 200 300 X 5 10 5 I
Add the numbers of these separate words and you have:
mnw n©H rrnH
21 501 21
This relates to the process of descending in Fire on the Mount to make Man, etc., and is explained to be but a cA€£:k and use of the numbers of the mountains; for on one side we have 10 + 5 + 6 = 21, down the middle 501, and on the other side 6 + 5 + 10 = 21.*
The **Holy of Holies," both kabalistic and rabbinical, is thus shown as an international symbol, and common property. Neither had origi- nated with the Hebrews; but owing to the too realistic handling of the half-initiated Levites, the symbol had acquired with them a signifi- cance which it scarcely has with any other people to this day, and which it was originally nev^r meant to have by the true Kabalist. The Lingam and Yoni of the modern average Hindu is, on the face of it, of course, no better than the rabbinical "Holy of Holies" — but i/ is no worse; and this is a point gained on the Christian traducers of the Asiatic religious Philosophies. For, in such religious m>'ths, in the hidden symbolism of a creed and philosophy, the spirit of the tenets propounded ought to decide their relative value. And who will say, that, examined either way, this so-called "Wisdom," applied solely to the uses and benefit of one little nation, has ever developed in it anything like national ethics. The Prophets are there, to show the walk in life of the chosen but "stiff-necked" people before, during, and after, the days of Moses. That they have had at one time the Wisdom- Religion and the use of its universal language and symbols is proved by the same Esotericism existing to this day in India with regard to the "Holy of Holies." This, as said above, was and still is the passage through the "Golden" Cow in the same siooping position as was necessitated by the Gallery of the Pj'ramid, which identified man with Jehovah in Hebrew Esotericism. The whole difference lies in the spirit of the interpretation. With the Hindus as with the ancient Egyptians that spirit was and is entirely metaphysical and psychological ; with
* Froin Uie nmr author. See also the Section on "The Symtwliam of Uic Mystery Nuncs Xfto moA Jcborab."
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the Hebrews it was realhtic and physiological. It pointed to the first sexual separation of the human race — Eve giving birth to Cain-Jehovah, as shown in The Source of Measures ; to the consummation of terrestrial physiological uuiou and conception — as in the allegory of Cain shedding Abel's blood, Habel being the feminine principle; and to child-bearing — a process shown to have begun in the Third Race, or with Adam's Third Son, Seth, with whose Son Henoch, men began to call themselves Jehovah or Jah-hovah. the male Jod and Havah or Eve, to wit, male and female beings.* Thus the difference lies in the religious and ethicaJ feeling, but the two symbols are identical. There is no doubt that, with the fully initiated Judaean Tanaira, the inner sense of the symbohsm was as holy in its abstraction as with the ancient Aryan Dvijas. The worship of the **God in the Ark" dates only from David; and for a thousand years Israel knew of no phallic Jehovah. And now the old Kabalah edited and reedited, has become tainted with it.
With the ancient Ar>'ans the hidden meaning was grandiose, sublime and poetical, however much the external appearance of their syTnboI may now militate against the claim. The ceremony of passing through the Holy of Holies — now symbolized by the Cow. but in the beginning through the temple Hiranya-garbha. the Radiant Egg, in itself a sym- bol of Universal, Abstract Nature — lueaut spiritual conception and birth, or rather the re-birth of the individual and his regeneration; the stooping m^n at the entrance of the Sanctum Sanctorum, ready to pass through the Matrix of Mother Nature, or the physical creature ready to re-become the original Spiritual Beiu^, /»ir-naial Man. With the Semite, that stooping man meant the /all ot Spirit into Matter, and that /all and degradation were apotheosized by him with the result of dragfging Deity down to the level of man. For the Aryan, the symbol repre- s^njted the divorce of Spirit from Matter, its merging into and return to its primal Source; for the Semite, the wedlock of Spiritual Man with
Material Female Nature, the physiological taking preeminence over the
ft psychological and the purely immaterial. The Aryan views of the
symbolism were those of the whole Pagan world; the Semite interpret
tations emanated from, and were preeminently those of a small tribe,
thus marking its national features and the idiosyncratic defects that
characterize many of the Jews to this day — g^oss realism, sel&shness,
and sensuality. They had made a bargain, through their father Jacob,
* In Genesis (It. tt>). It is nUft-tnuiRlated, " And he colled hib aamtr Knoi [man] : Uien began men ti» call upon the name or the Lord " —which has uo scnwr m U, aince Adam and the othcra inuat have done Uie same.
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-^itb their tribal deity, self-exalted above all others, and a covenant that his '*seed shall be as the dust of the earth"; and that deity could have no better image henceforth than that of the symbol of generation, and as representation a number d^nA numbers.
Carlyle has wise words for both these nations. With the Hindu Aryan — the most metaphysical and spiritual people on earth — religion has ever been, in his words,
An everlasting lode-star, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night around him.
The religion of the Hindu detaches him from this Earth; therefore, even now, the cow-symbol is one of the grandest and most philosophi- cal among all others in its inner meaning. To the "Masters" and " Lords" of European potencies, the Israelites, certain words of Carlyle apply still more admirably: for them
Religion is a wise prudential feeling grounded on mere cakulation — and it was so from its beginnings. Having burdened themselves with it, Christian nations feel bound to defend and poetize it, at the expense of all other religions.
But it was not so with the ancient nations. For them the passage- entrance and the sarcophagus in the King's Chamber meant regenera- tion— not generation. It was the most solemn symbol, a Holy of Holies^ indeed, wherein were created Immortal Hierophants and "Sons of God" — never mortal men and sons of lust and flesh, as now in the hidden sense of the Semite Kabalist. The reason for the difference in the views of the two races is easy to account for. The Aryan Hindu belongs to the oldest races now on Earth; the Semite Hebrew to the latest. The former is nearly one million years old; the latter is a small sub-race some 8,000 years of age and no more.*
But phallic worship has developed only with the gradual loss of the keys to the inner meaning of religious symbols, and there was a day when the Israelites had beliefs as pure as the Aryans have. But now Judaism, built solely on phallic worship, has become one of the latest
• StricUy spealdns, the Jews are in artificial Aryan race, t>om in India, and belong^nff to the Cancasiui division. No one who Is familiar with the Armenians and the Parnts can fail to recog^nizo in the three the jmme Aryan, Caucasian type. From the seven primitive type* of the Pifth Race there now remain on Earth but three. As Prof. W. H. Flower aptly said in :885 : *" I cAOUOt resist the condarion so often arrived at by various nnthnapologists — that the primitive man, whatever he may have been, has in the course of agei divergrd into three extreme types, represented by the Caucasian of Europe, the Mongt>lian of Asia, and the Hthioptan of Africa, and that all cxtstinf; individuals of the tprcies can be ranged around these typea." (The President's Address at the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, etc.) Considering that our Race has reached its fifth sub-race, how can it W otherwise?
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creeds in Asia, and theologically a religion of bate and malice toward everyone and everything outside itself. Philo Judaeus skows what was the genuine Hebrew faith. The Sacred Writings, he says, prescribe what we ought to do, commandi7ig us to kate iht heathen and their laivs and institutions. True, they did hate Baal or Bacchus worship publicly, but left its worst features to be followed secretly. It is with the Tal- mudic Jews that the grand symbols of Nature were the most profaned. With them, as now shown by the discover>' of the key to the correct Bible reading, Geometry, \iit fifth Divine Science — "fifth" in the series of the Seven Keys to the universal Esoteric lyanguage and Symbology — was desecrated, and by them applied to conceal the most terrestrial and grossly sexual mysteries, wherein both Deity and Religion were degraded.
We are told that it is just the same with our BrahmS-Prajdpati, with Osiris and all other Creative Gods. Quite so, when their rites are judged exoterically and externally; the reverse when their itiner meaning is unveiled, as we see. The Hindu Lingam is identical with Jacob's " Pillar "=-most undeniably. But the difference, as said, seems to consist in the fact that the Esoteric significance of the Lingam was too truly sacred and metaphysical to be revealed to the profane and the vulgar; hence its superficial appearance was left to the specula- tions of the mob. Nor would the Aryan Hierophant and Brihman, in their proud exclusiveness and the satisfaction of their knowledge, go to the trouble of concealing its primeval nakedness under cunningly devised fables; whereas the Rabbi, having interpreted the symbol to suit his own tendencies, had to veil the crude significance; and this served a double purpose — that of keeping his secret to himself and of exalting himself in his supposed monotheism over the Heathen, whom his Law commanded him to hate* — a commandment now gladly accepted by the Christian too, in spite of another and later command- ment, **Love one another." Both India and Egypt had and have their sacred lotuses, symbolic of the same "Holy of Holies" — the lotus growing in the water, a double feminine symbol — the bearer of its own
* Whenever Buch analogies between Uie GcoHlea and the Jews, and later the Christians, have been pointed ont, it has been the invariable custom of the latter to say that it was the work of the Devil who forced the Pagans to imitate the Jews for the purpose of throwing a slur on the reltgiou of Uie oiu,lTut living QqA. To this Faber says very jusUy: "Some have imagined that the Gentiles were Krrtle copyists of the Israelites, and that each point of similitude was borrowed from tbc MotaJrsl Institutes. But this theory will by no means solve the problem. Both because we 6nd the very same resemblance in the crremonica of nations far distant from Palestine, as we do in the rites of those who are in its immediate vicinity, and because it seems Incredible that all should have borrowed. from one which was universally dialiked and despised." {I^gan Idolatry, i. 104.)
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seed and root of all. Virfij and Horns are both male sj^nbols, emanat- ing from Androgyne Nature, one from Brabm^ and his female counter-