represented was very varied. In the first place, in the church it is shown by the clothes of the clergy, and especially by the Pope. The men are known to be masculine, but on taking the vows of the church they put on a gown or frock, a woman's garment, rich with specially feminine ornament of silk and lace, to represent the double sex of the God they serve. This is done even down to the choir boys with their surplices. But there is another symbolism, which I have explained fully elsewhere, but which can only be indicated here. The name Omphâlé-woman-man-will serve as a basis. Now "Om" is Uma or Ooma, the Indian mother of all-the "womb of time and is our Alma, in Alma Mater, the mother of all wisdom-the university, and is also our word womb in woman, womb-man," the kind of man which has the womb. The other half of the word is more difficult to deal with, but it means the male organ of generation, which in Aryan is Pala, as in India to-day, the root of our words pole, pale, impaled, and pillar; but coming to us through Greece, the P becomes Ph, and the masculine termination of os is added, and we have Phallos-Latin Phallus. Omphalé was an Amazon Queen who exchanged sexes with Hercules, who gave 66 her his Club" and lion's skin, making her masculine or double-sexed-hence Om-phale. In Greece its meaning broadened and its vowels changed with the changing meaning, and it became Phillis, love, and Philip, the loving one. We know that the "shameful thing or "loving one which was worshipped as an upright post or pillar at every street corner in Jerusalem was the phallus; and when Jacob put up a stone and anointed it with wine and oil (passion and fertility), he performed an act of phallic worship such as can be seen still practised everywhere and every day in India. The ancient Britons held the same practices, and in Fig. 6 we have a Jacob's pillar as sculptured in Dorsetshire in pre-historic times, and it only requires a glance to see what it represents. There were thousands of such columns all over Europe; in fact, they represented the creative god all over the world. In Fig. 7 we have the Egyptian equivalent, called the Dad or father," the Rock that begat thee" of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy xxxii., 18), and in Fig. 8 we have the Greek phallic pillar, Hermes, or Mercury, but here hermaphroditic or double-sexed, was to render the true creative idea by two sexes. Hermes |