religious processions to-day in India. Here we see Jacob's archaic worship in active operation in India to-day.

In order to clearly understand the true inwardness of the Ark and Tabernacle, and what was worshipped there, we must become acquainted with the cult which Jacob practised, and although I have treated it fully as practised in all countries in my larger book, I must repeat sufficient here in order that my remarks on the Ark and Tabernacle may be clearly understood.

As no nation likes to use native words for sexual attributes or parts, as they sound vulgar and shameful, we have adopted three words from India and one from Latin to express this cult, and we will see that many others are used throughout the Bible and in India, Greece, and Palestine, which I shall have occasion to explain.

The first is Pala, an Aryan root for the male organ, and the original of our words Pole, Pale, as in “impaled " or paling, and no doubt of Pillar, and it may be even of post. Pala has a feminine Palaki, the "temple woman," just as Deva the great god has a female Devaki. But Pala has come to us through Greece, where P becomes Ph, and

Pala becomes Phallos (Latin, Phallus), so we speak of Phallic worship and the Phallus.

India has another word widely used, Linga or Lingam, which has given a name to many places, such as Linga on the Persian Gulf, where our soldiers were recently fighting. Over the coasts of Persia, Baluchistan, India, Burmah, down to Singapore, the name is. common. We have Larés, Larissa, Laristan, or Louristan, words meaning towns or lands of sex worship, widely used from Burmah, through India, Persia, Arabia, right on to Greece, but derived from the female idea, as is Baluchistan, the land of the Balucki, or Palaki, or temple women, for all courtesans were at one time attached to temples as nuns, and Palaki is the feminine of Pala or the Phallus, as Devaki is of Deva.

In Greece Phallus became Phillis-love and Philip the loving one, and reverting to the single "1" as in pala, and we find a tribe named Philistines or Philis-stans, who were the inhabitants of Palestine or the " stan" or land of the Phallus, and who were intense phallic worshippers. The Hebrews lived in this same land, Palestine, the "stan " or land of the Pala. And they were closely connected, as is shown by Abraham becoming wealthy

there," and Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days" (Genesis xxi., 34).

The word Pala became Palés on coming west, as the Romans had the twin pillar god (as in Solomon's temple), called Palés, to whom they prayed for fertility for their flocks. So the land called Palestine, in a small central part of which the Hebrews lived, was preeminently the land of phallic worship, as we shall see.

These words have created a great etymology in all the lands of the old world. Pala also gives us Palladium of the Trojans, the Pala god, or pillar god, worshipped as the home of Jové by Jacob.

Both sex emblems were considered very lucky, the new moon and the horseshoe still representing woman, while Palladium represents the general protective power and luck of the male element. To protect their children from the evil eye or to bring them good luck, women in Italy to this day put a bracelet on their children's arms with a phallus on it, or a hand with a thumb protruded between the first and second fingers-the universal sign of the Phallus, or even of double sex. These are often exposed for sale in curiosity shops

in London. The third word is Yoni, meaning the dove or female, or female organ.

On page 446 it was quoted from Genesis that Bethel, the dwelling place of the god, was formerly called Luz. Now, this is an announcement that Jacob had adopted a purely masculine religion, as we will see the Hebrews had, and he was changing a feminine name and symbol into a masculine one. Luz means Almond, which we shall find as the feminine symbol all over the East and in the Bible, coupled with rods and candlesticks, and it gave rise to Laz, Lars, Lares, and Lauris, in Laristan or Lauristan, Larissa, the word giving also our "loose one or wanton goddess, and the Latin Larés (feminine), coupled with the masculine Penatés (penis), as male and female household gods.

Jacob called the stone pillar (the phallus) he erected, El god of Israel. So Bethel is the house of the phallus, and El and the phallus are identical.

Jacob's name was changed to Israel under circumstances involving the phallus (the sinew which shrank), again a change from feminine to masculine. (Genesis xxxii., 24-32).

CHAPTER III

HEBREW WORSHIP

The Bible gives us a glimpse of what a tiny clan the Hebrews were, notwithstanding all their boasting of hundreds of thousands slain. They inhabited a mere fraction of Palestineitself a land which never could support more than 120,000 all told. Isaiah, when breathing out threats of fire and slaughter to all tribes who did not come under the Hebrew Jové of the heavenly hosts, says, chapter xv., 20:

Rejoice thou not whole Palestina because "the rod of him that smote thee is broken, for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an "adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent." Again, verse 31-" Howl O gate; cry, O city; thou whole Palestina art dissolved, for there shall come from the north a smoke;" or in Exodus-" The people shall hear and be afraid; sorrow shall take hold "on the inhabitants of Palestina." So here

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