rendered clear by the form of the Hindu Monstrance and Pyx. Their Monstrance is a dove, symbol of the Queen of Heaven, exactly the shape of our old monstrances in Europe. (See Fig. 13 in my Queen of Heaven.) One wing opens up, and in the inside is a phial modelled in silver in the shape of the complete human male organ, the Trinity, which contains the oil for giving life to the departing, or newly born, or freed soul, just as the living phallus gives life to the body. The word phial is directly derived from Phala, and is a phallus. The old alchemists, who were inclined to dabble in mystic symbolism and to search after the elixir of life, called their prinpal instrument the mortar and pestle, again M and P, or Monstrance and Pyx, the Hebrew Massekah and Pessel; and they made tests (testes) in hermetically (phallically) sealed tubes, and marked and named their crucibles from the cross, the universal symbol of the Phallus. The Hebrew for pestle is Eli, the name of the Hebrews' great god, who persists from Genesis i. down to the New Testament, as we see Jesus, when in agony on the cross, calls on Eli, not on Jehovah; so his phallic nature is apparent. Psalm xcvi., 5, says that all Elohim are Elilim; all gods are pestles or

pillars. But every upright post or rod was the phallus, pestle, or the Eli. Thus the phallic nature of their "Rock that begat thee" is shown even in the chemist's laboratory.

The Hebrews had quite a series of the M and P conjunction. One called the Mazzaloth and Pesselim is very interesting. Pesselim, or in the singular Pessel, is the same as pestle, and is translated as " carved image, and was a carved phallus, like Fig. 5 or 6, as differentiated from natural columnar unhewn stones, Mazaloth, Part I. of my Gods of the Hebrew Bible, Figs. 8, 9, and 10, which were erected to swear upon. Mazzoloth means, according to the Encyclopædia Biblica, "abode." The Roman Church calls Mary the Temple of the Trinity," Tabernacle of God," Abode of the Trinity," "in which dwells the godhead bodily," just as the Hebrews made their ark the abode of Iové, so the Mazzoloth and Pesselim are the Trinity in Unity, another Monstrance and Pyx, our incomprehensible mystery. The "three-inone" is often explained as a triune god, like the triple male gods of India, three god-like attributes combined in one person; but the Roman Catholic phrase about Mary makes the meaning quite clear-" Abode (or Ark) of the

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Trinity," the male Trinity in its female Ark (four in all). This was embodied by the Hebrews in their Rod of God (1), and his two stones (2 and 3), in the Ark (4).

That the mortar and pestle were used in this sense from the earliest times as a two-sexed symbol of life is clear from the two figures I show here. The first is from Egypt, by Lanzoni (Fig. 11), where, under the Bull Apis

carrying Osiris, there is the mortar and pestle of eternal life. In this case the entire symbol of the Trinity is shown, the two stones beside the Eli or pestle forming the male triple god in the female mortar, so we see whence Moses got his Rod of God and two stones in the Ark idea.

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Fig. 12.

In the second illustration (Fig. 12) we have four very neat mortars and pestles under the Hindoo Christna, giving a double symbolism indicating the creation of life and the foursided nature of the creative god or quadruple structure of the Three-in-One, an idea often embodied by the Hindoos in their small lingam-yoni altars (see p. 256-257). The mortars and pestles are taken from a photograph in the India Office Library (No. 4799, India Office List).

Pessel (or plural pesselim) has another companion word, Massekah, erroneously translated " molten image;" but Massekah really means an image connected with pouring out" of libations. The Hebrews poured out libations to the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah xliv.), and Massekah refers to a female idol, so it is the Yoni again, and Massekah and Pessel are the same as Monstrance and Pyx.

So Eli was the pestle or phallus, the cause of the pestilence called ophalim, woman-man, or rather yoni-lingam, disease (see pp. 211, 212, 241

The Hebrews put the woman first here, always blaming the woman when the thing was evil. Pestilence is called Reseph in the Old Testament, and we find that Reseph was a sun god (probably Ra, Esh, Oph, Solo-phallic-serpent), with his chief seat at Phaliga (phallus town), also called Carchemish.

Phaliga was situated between two holy waters, like "Midian " or our Dorsetshire column, or the tree of life in Eden between the rivers in "Mesopotamia." Apolo, the Greek god, whose name is pala with the prosthetic A, was also a sun god, and was the god of pestilence, so we see the Hebrew Eli conforming to the general rule and being a god of pestilence. He was probably a sun god also, as described in Exodus xxiv., 10 and 17. The Encyclopædia Biblica, col. 3675, writing of the pestilence of Egypt so often threatened, says: "It is a pestilence of a bad type that is meant," and we have seen it was syphilis, and no pestilence could be worse. To return to our general symbolism.

Water is the special symbol of woman in her creative character, as all life comes out of water, and it is the passive element, while fire (or wine) represents man-the active element.

All over the East a well represents woman,