or Erect") Anu and Hea (its testal appendages) have been

thus formulated:

Reverse this position, and we

ANU HEA

have the ancient T (Tan) or Cross of the ancient Hindoos, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Pelasgians, Oscans, Arcadians, Etruscans, Hebrews, Greeks, and Christians.

Thus the Christian Cross and Trinity are purely of sexual origin, and entirely masculine-the signs of a Male Deityhowever they may have been painted and varnished over with pious "doxy" and sweet sentiment.

We shall next present a statement of the conservative Mr. Wake, in his excellent paper on "The influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity:"

"It must be said that Christianity itself is certainly not without the phallic element. Reference may be made to the important place taken in Christian dogma by the Fall-which I have shown to have had a purely phallic foundation—and to the peculiar position of Mary, as the 'Virgin Mother of God.' The fish and the cross symbols originally embodied the idea of generation. The most evidently phallic representation used by the Christian iconographers is undoubtedly the aureole or vesica. This was generally elliptical in form, and contained the figure of Christ; Mary, herself, however, being sometimes represented in the aureole, glorified as Jesus Christ. Probably the nimbus also is of phallic significance; for although generally circular, it was sometimes triangular, square, etc. The name of Jehovah is inscribed within a radiating triangle. Didron gives a repre sentation of St. John the Evangelist with a circular nimbus, surmounted by two sunflowers-emblems of the Sun-an idea, he says, which reminds us of the Egyptian figures, from the heads of which two lotus-flowers rise in a similar manner." After mentioning several other minor Phallo-Christian symbols, he proceeds: "There can be no question, however, that, whatever may be thought of its symbols, the fundamental basis of Christianity is more purely phallic than that of any other religion existing. The emotional nature of Christian faith, indeed, shows how intimately it

was related to the older faiths which had a phallic basis. In Christianity we see the final expression of the primitive worship of the father as the head of the family-The Generatoras the result of an instinctive reasoning process leading up from the particular to the universal, with which, however, the dogma of the Fall and its consequences, deduced so strangely from a phallic legend, have been incorporated. The phallic is indeed the only foundation on which an emotional religion can be based. As a religion of the emotions, therefore, the position of Christianity is perfectly unassailable. As a system of rational faith, however, it is far different." Thus far Mr. Wake.

Mr. King, the conservative author of "The Gnostics and their Remains," after noticing that on an ancient gem, "before Serapis stands Isis. with the legend 'Immaculate is our Lady Isis'-the very terms afterwards applied to the Virgin Mary," goes on to say:

"The Black Virgins' of the French cathedrals prove, when examined critically, to be basalt figures of the [nothing if not phallic] Goddess Isis. The Virgin Mary succeeded to her form, titles, symbols, rites, and ceremonies. Thus the devotees of Isis carried into the new priesthood the former badges of their profession, the obligation to [lascivious] celibacy, the tonsure, and the surplice. The sacred image still moves in procession as when Juvenal laughed at it-' escorted by the tonsured, surpliced train.' Her proper title, Domina, the exact translation of the Sanskrit Isi, survives, with a slight change, in the modern Madonna. By a singular permutation, the flower borne by each-the lotus, ancient emblem of fecundity, now re-named the lily-is interpreted as significant of the opposite quality. The tinkling sistrum, a sound so well pleasing to the Egyptian Goddess, is replaced by that most hideous of noises, the clattering bell.

It is astonishing how much of the Egyptian and the secondhand Indian symbolism passed over into the usages of the following times. The high cap and hooked staff of the God became the bishop's miter and crosier; the term nun is purely Egyptian [and very fishy at that], and bore its present meaning; the erect oval, symbol of the Female Principle of

Nature, became the Vesica Piscis, and a frame for divine things; the Crux Ansata, testifying the union of the Male and Female Principle in the most obvious manner, and denoting fecundity and abundance, is transformed, by a simple inversion, into the Orb surmounted by the Cross, and the ensign of royalty."

Even Dionysus, the God of the superlatively phallic Dionysiac Mysteries, reappears as St. Denys, St. Liberius, St. Eleutherius, and St. Bacchus! There are also St. Satur and St. Mithra! Isis and Horus, Ceres and Bacchus, reappear as the Virgin and Child! Nuns abound alike in Christian and Buddhist countries, as they did formerly in Isis-worshiping Egypt; and if their maidenhood is not sacrificed at the shrine. of Baal-Peor or any of his cognate divinities, yet it is done in a figure; they are all "brides of the Savior;" and too many of them, even from early Christian times, have been, MariaMonk-like, mock-holy paramours of the priests! "Galli,” [or musical eunuchs], "still sing in the churches; and consecrated women are as numerous as of old. The priestly vestments are like those formerly used in the [phallic] worship of Saturn and Cybele-the Phrygian cap, the pallium, the stolé, and the alb. The whole [phallic] Pantheon has been exhausted, from the Indus, Euphrates, and the Nile, to supply symbolic adornment for the apostles' successors. Hercules holds the distaff of Omphale. The Lily has superseded the Lotus."

In close imitation of and direct historic succession to the . ancient Indian, Phoenician, Syrian, Carian, Egyptian, Delian, Spartan, and Central American phallic votaries and priests, and the Flagellants of the Middle Ages, many Christian devotees even nowadays, during Holy Week in Rome, lash themselves till the blood gushes in streams; and the same practice exists in other places. But flagellation means also and always high-wrought sexual passion!

In the famous Roman catacombs, where the early Christians were wont to assemble, there are numerous pictures and carvings which indicate close resemblances to the phallic usages of pagan times. The utensils and other furniture of the Mysteries appear to have been there; and one drawing

shows a woman standing before an altar offering phallic buns to the Serpent Divinity.

In fine, it has been abundantly proven by the most patient and trustworthy investigators in this field that "there is not a fast or festival, procession or sacrament, social custom or religious symbol, that did not come bodily from the previous paganism." But the Pontiff did not import them on his own account. From the time, and long before the time of the Pontifex Maximus of the periods of the Empire and the Republic, they had come down and been already transferred into the ecclesiastical structure, and the Pope only accepted and perhaps took advantage of the fact. And many of those who so glibly protest against these "Romish corruptions" are prone to imitate them, more or less, thus exhibiting an engraftment from the same stock. A cross surmounting a Methodist or Unitarian church, for instance, looks curiously phallic, if not Romish.

"The end crowned the work. In the Church of St. Peter's at Rome is kept in secret a large stone emblem of the Creative Power, of a very peculiar shape, on which are the words Zeus Soter [Jove the Savior]; only persons who have great interest can get a sight of it." This reminds us most vividly of that other figure, the most prominent part of whose very physiog nomy is a huge phallus in erectu, and near the base of whose bust is inscribed Soter Kosmou-"the Savior or Preserver of the World"--as indeed, the sexual organ, with all that it means, undoubtedly appears to be.

Then there was the Pope's "pierced chair," on which the new Popes had to sit with the nude virile parts exposed through the aperture, so that they could be handled by the proper attestants, and each fresh Pontiff, as he appeared, thereby proven to be a well-sexed man, and not a palmed-off woman or eunuch. Moreover, there was one of the two apostolic chairs of St. Peter, on which, when workmen in the year 1662 were engaged in cleaning it for holy exhibition to the people, the Twelve Labors of Hercules unluckily appeared plainly engraved; whereupon it was removed and another put in its place! And thus the cycle seems to have returned upon itself. Archaic Rome seems to live again in the Rome

Medieval and Modern; ancient India, Assyria, and Egypt to be resuscitated in our Modern Europe and America.

To systematize and recapitulate, and moreover to notice several other Christian phallicisms besides those which we have already touched upon, we shall simply state, without the slightest fear of being successfully contradicted, that the Gospel and Ecclesiastical Legends of the Trinity, of the Holy Ghost, of the Immaculate Conception, of the Incarnation, of the Star in the East, of Bethany and the love-passages there, of Good Friday, the Cross, the Crucifixion, and the Passion, of the Darkness and the Earthquake, of the Entombment, of the Resurrection and Sunday and Easter-tide, of the Ascension and Whitsuntide, of the Pentecostal Season and the Second Advent; the Christian-adopted Jewish Legends already mentioned; the Church Sacraments, Protestant and Catholic; the Bowing, Building, and Burying toward the East; the Churches as Club-rooms and Houses of Assignation; the benedictory attitude of the priestly hands; the methods and machinery of Revivals and Conversions; the style, form, color, and material of Church Architecture, Ornaments, and Vestments; the very soul of Ritualism; the well-nigh interminable "black list" of lust-fallen Popes, Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Evangelists, Revivalists, Doctors of Divinity, and Sunday-school Teachers and Superintendents; Ebelianism, Agapemonism, Southcotism, Oneidaism, Beecherism; the phraseology and spirit of large portions of various Lections, Liturgies, Services, Hymnals, Breviaries, Masses, Common Prayers, Gardens of the Soul, and other Devotional Books-that all these principles, persons, places, and things are not only based on and imbedded in pagan phallism, but that by far the most of them are themselves phallic superstitions and crownings of the edifice" of sexual religiosity.

We have no room for the merest mention of the phallisms that crop out in Modern Judaism and Mohammedanism, and in other minor religions, all over the earth. And our notice of Modern Social and Secular Phallism must be confined to a simple catalogue, to wit-the correct Arabian and Syrian