Forlong - Rivers of Life

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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
or “banner,” who occupies the place also of Moses to lead his flocks through “this
wilderness,” is always examined as to his Phallic completeness before being confirmed
in the Pontificate. This, we read in the Life of Leo X., by Roscoe, is required in the
case of Popes just as the Laws of Moses required that all who came to worship their
very Phallic Jahveh should first prove their completeness as men. From this we may
conclude that eunuchs or incompetent men were “children of the Devil,” or at least
not of this phallic god—a fact which the writer of Matthew xix. 12, and the Fathers,
Origen and Valentine, and a host of other Saints who acted on the text, must have
overlooked. Wm. Roscoe, the historian, thus writes: “On the 11th of August 1492,
after Roderigo (Borgia) had assumed the name of Alexander VI., and made his
entrance as Supreme Pontiff into the Church of St. Peter.” After the procession and
pageants had all been gone through, Alexander was taken aside to undergo “the final
test of his qualifications, which in his particular instance might have been dispensed
with.” The historian, of course, alludes to his numerous progeny, which, like those of
“the holy people”—the types of the Christian Church, were, as we know, occasionally
due to incestuous excesses. Roscoe gives a foot-note to explain matters more succinctly
and authoritatively, to which I add a few words. 1
A man or a living serpent in an ark was called its “life” zoē or hoe, “joy” and
“peace” and “repose,”—that on which we can rely. One of the Targums calls the
serpent which tempted Adam—it does not speak of Eve being tempted, the Hui or
Huia, so that we get the idea of the man in the ark, or chief of an ark, being a manoo,
mens, or menes, the mnr of Phenicians and Minerva of the Greek; also Nous,
mind, and wisdom, and hence, no doubt, Sir Wm. Jones arrived at the conclusion that,
“Noah was the Indian Menu” allied to the Minos of Crete, the wise son of
lAO and IO, as. Noah was of Jahveh. Eratosthenes tells us that “Mines the
Thebanite,” that is Mines of the Ark, means “by interpretation Dio-nius,” who
in this very feminine kingdom “was succeeded by Hermagenes” or him begotten
by Hermes, 2 that is, Maha-Deva, king of serpents. Noh is indeed the leader” or
“preceder,” as Higgins reasonably supposes. Moses makes him the Husband of Gē
or Terra (Gen. ix. 0, hdmah cya, Ish ha-adamah), which makes him Saturn. Where
the moon was masculine, Noh seems to have been connected with this very snaky
luminary, but it is usually said to be his ark; and curiously enough, “Osiris entered
into the moon,” and impregnated her on the 17th of the month Athyr, the day on
which the Jews say that Noah entered the ark. 2
Let us now consider the object, and probable origin of the article which the Hebrews
had inside their ark. They had no Serpent in it, though they had two stones and Aaron’s
1
“NOTE 5.—Finalemento, essendo fornite le solite solemnità in Sancta Sanctorum a domesticamente
toccatogli i testiculo, e data la benedictione, ritornò al palagio. Corio, Storio di Milano VII., 980” It
is said we will find the origin of this custom in Shepherd’s Life of Poggi Bracciolini, 149. Toccatogli
appears to signify “the Toucher,” “Tip Staff,” or Baton (Dav. and Petronj’s Italian Dic.)
2 3
Higgins’ Anacalypsis, I. 235.
Do., p. 526.