Fig. 7.

Fig. 8.

or Mercury was the messenger of the gods, and the message he brought to earth was life. This Greek stone is identical in meaning with Fig. 5. and with Fig. 9, which represent the two creative organs alone. The female side of Fig. 8 has " fruit" in hand, while the male side has the hammer or pestle.

If one reads the Nabis' continual condem

nation of what our Bible translators hide under the name of the worship of the "Grove,' but what was purely Phallic worship, one can see that it was always universally practised amongst the Jews, so their land became known as Palestine, the Land of the Pala or Phallos, like Afganistan, the land of the Afgans, and other " stans." The same name was given to the Philistines from the more modern Greek variant for the same thing and to indicate that this also was the land of Phallic worship. Now to return to Omphale, one can see at a glance that it is a combination of Om and phallus, the names of the Reproductive organs of the two sexes, just as hermaphrodité is Hermes and Aphrodité, the essence of masculinity and femininity combined. We now come to its use in religion. The idea of creation, as I have shown, was that as man was made "male and female after God's own image," so the God must have been male and female. Then the idea of continuity of life or life eternal was expressed by the ancients by the Omphallic, or double sexed, or Hermaphroditic, or Androgynous idea of the two parts necessary to the continuity of life, and quite realistic symbols of these organs were cut in gems, wood, iron, and all metals up to gold

in tens of thousands in every country all over the world from the earliest times to the present day. Schliemann found them in archaic dwellings 40 feet under ancient Troy. We must not imagine that this is a cult of the past It is actively taught and practised by at least 300 millions of the subjects of King George and by more than half the population of the whole world.

Phallism is the universal cult

and still exists symbolically in all our modern church dress, ritual, and architecture, and here is the altar (Fig. 9) from the British Museum, which represents the two sexes, and universally revered in India as the representative of the Great God or Maha Deva. The combination is caressed by serpents, indicating sexual passion. We will, having curtly explained this difficult subject treated fully in my large book, now return to the dove symbol as the Queen of Heaven and the Queen's title as the Habitation of God. In India the combination is called the Maha-Deva or Great God, but as the Hebrews, from whom we get our religious ideas, were a masculine worshipping sect, they held the masculine symbol was sufficient to represent the "creative power " or the God. The feminine or or Queen of Heaven was, as we have seen, represented by a dove, and in India, to this day, the priests wear a silver dove hung by a chain round their necks, as is familiarly known to all our intelligent officers serving in India. This has a lid, and inside is placed a beautifully executed model of the male organs in silver and with miraculous power to give eternal life to the departing soul of the dying. This combination is the "Maha-Deva " or Great God,

and is still in use in the Roman Church for extreme unction on approaching death as the Monstrance and Pyx. Hence we see the supreme power of the double sexed symbol when the Queen of Heaven is really the

habitation" of the male symbol of creation or of the god. The oil is (in Hebrew) "Semen."

The Monstrance part is not so important in the Christian practice, as they have followed the Hebrews and given the female a subordinate place in their religion. The Hebrews had no word for Goddess, no female in their heaven. Any almond-shaped or lens-shaped thing represents the female, and our Monstrance is of this shape, and, when a dove is hung by its beak with its wings closed it is also of that shape, while our pyx is a cylindrical vessel or phial to hold sacred oil. Now all Arks represented the Queen of Heaven and all she stands for, and arks always contained a rod or pillar or pala, and the rod was always the symbol of the male, so the two represented the double sexed creative god as does the Priest in his frock or the Parson in his gown.

This most holy combination, which was also the ark of the Covenant of the Hebrews, was so extremely sacred that to touch it or look