out of the water is a universal myth, and the mother has her child in an "ark." Water is the primeval element, according to all Asiatic and Greek myths, and is the female element, just as fire denotes passion and is male, and passion is symbolised by pouring wine on the erected stone.

All God names expressed the two sexes to be symbolical of the Creation of Life. The Hebrew IHOH [Jehovah, a stupid English attempt to vocalise an unpronounceable group of letters] conforms to this rule and has a clear symbolism. I is the male prefix, pillar or Pala, and the two H's are the "breathing or life-giving letters, symbolising the two stones (in the Ark, for instance, pp. 259, 260) or Life Creators, which the ancients knew (through Eunuchs) were so necessary to the creation of life, while O is the famale organ; so IHOH is the complete male-and-female Life Creator, the Incomprehensible Mystery of all nations (see Hyppolytus, p. 249), the most sacred and secret Tetragrammaton, to attempt to pronounce or explain which was punished with death.

CHAPTER IX

WITNESS AND TESTIMONY

We have traced this rod of God, which so easily became a serpent and worked miracles, creating and destroying life in Egypt, from its inception in Midian, its wandering in Egypt and the wilderness, till it goes into the ark with two stones, which appear as the "Witness" or Testimony." Now, these two words are extremely useful as stepping stones from the Jové or his phallus in the ark to the two tables of stone, which we are told with needless emphasis were the sole occupants of the ark (1st Kings viii., 9)-"There was nothing save the two tables of stone." The "Testimony was in existence (see Exodus xvi., 34) long before there were any "tables of stone," and the ark was specially made for this "Testimony or Phallic stones, and it is to obliterate this fact that the emphatic assertion in 1st Kings is made. Originally Jové was in the ark, and the Eduth Testimony and the Shakina, so

there is some reason for this emphatic statement. Two words are used all through the English Bible for what was in the ark, the one is "witness," and the other "testimony."

Both of these words are descended from the old custom I have described of swearing on the actual Testes, to attest, or of making an oath at a phallic pillar. In "witness " we have a Saxon word to know, or wit in the sense beyond the wit of man," or wissen in German, and it is also connected with Video I see, which we often say instead of know or understand, and "witness " means primarily knowledge" brought in proof (not the man who brings it) or a testimony of fact. "witness means knowledge."

So

The tree of "knowledge was the phallus represented by a serpent, and its fruit made Eve the "mother of all living " (Genesis iii., 20), and brought shame, and the curse of child-birth. So there is no doubt it was the phallus. "Knowledge," again, is represented by a serpent, Be ye wise' as serpents." That "knowledge and "know are euphemisms for the sexual act in the Bible is proved from 1st Kings i., 4, where they tried to revive the dying David by placing a beautiful maiden beside him," but the King knew

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her not," and the marginal reference directs us to Genesis iv., 1-" And Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain;" and Rebekah in Genesis xxiv., 16, was "a damsel very fair to look upon a virgin, neither had any man known her;" and the Midianite child women "who had not known a man by lying with him.”

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On reaching the age of puberty a man cuts his "wisdom" teeth, so we see that the ark of witness was the ark of the "tree of knowledge," the phallus or stones. We have to use the word symbolically in English, but in German it is still direct, as Zeugen has two meanings-passive, to to witness, testify, or depose; and active, to engender, beget, or produce; with Zeugung, generation or procreation, Zeugungs Organe, sex organs; so here the ark of witness is the ark of the procreator.

Then, as to Testimony, we have the same phallic significance in the Latin word " testis,' which, like the German 66 zeug,' means equally a witness and the agent of procreation. So we have a "double entendre," and even in the last word employed in the English Bible," covenant," that has the direct meaning of coming together or going together.

Again a sexual signification, as in congress or coition, and the Covenant was circumcision.

But covenant means also a mutual agreement, and it was applied to the two tables of the law, which were by no means a mutual agreement, but a totally one-sided arbitrary order, under penalty of eternal death; so even "covenant" is more applicable to the relation of the double-sexed symbol of ark and rod of God than to any tables of arbitrarily imposed law. But the chain of evidence is made complete in 2nd Samuel xv., 24-25, where the " ark of the covenant" is called the Ark of God." We have in Exodus xvi., 33-34, the equivalence of the "Lord" and the "Testimony," and both are made holy by capital letters. Then "Testimony," "Witness," and "Covenant " are used indifferently, and, lastly, the Ark of the Covenant is the same as the Ark of God in 2nd Samuel xv., 24-25; and thus the circle is completed. It begins with God and Lord, becomes Witness, Testimony, Covenant, and, finally, covenant is again God; so they are all synonymous one of another. But, further, the ark of the Testimony is said to contain two stones," and if one consults a dictionary one will see the connection between words.