Forlong - Rivers of Life

Serpent and Phallic Worship.
“Egypt’s Golden Calf,” or rather Golden Cone. We may say generally that these
tribes preferred worship of the female energies, or of the Grove or hrca (Ex.
xxxiv. 13), just as the Italian, Spaniard, and Gaul, and among ourselves, the Irish do.
The latter, until the other day, exhibited
this Asherah over some of
the porches of their churches, too
grossly to be here shown. I give
this very complete illustration of
Grove-worship from the sculptures
in the British Museum. Here
we see the Priest pointing with
“phallic hand,” in form as the
Pope still adopts, to the Asherah
situated under “the great God, who passres through the circle,” and carries the bow
and arrow. All objects are here; the four gods or Arba-Al la-bra whereof see
details which Dr Inman veils in Latin, “Anc. Faiths,” I. 89.
This was indeed such a worship as Solomon would love, and accordingly we have
full details, in 1 Kings xi. and 2 Kings xxiii. and elsewhere, of his “Mount of Corruption,”
where was Chemosh, Milkom, Sun and Fire and the worship of all the generative
energies of nature. Is it to be wondered at, that with such a “God of the circumcision,”
and one so devoted to all the procreative energies of “his holy people Israel,” who
accepted none but those who satisfied the sexual purposes of creation, that this people
should prefer Solomon and similar kings, and dislike their one or two “Prophets” or
seers who condemned such a faith? No one can study their history, liberated from the
blind which our Christian up-bringing and associations cast over us, without seeing that
Jews were probably the grossest worshippers among all those Ophi-Phallo-Solar devotees
who then covered overy land and sea, from the sources of the Nile and Euphrates to
all over the Mediterranean coasts and isles. These impure faiths seem to have been
very strictly maintained by Jews up to Hezekiah’s days, and by none more so than
by dissolute Solomon and his cruel, lasciviouis, bandit-father, the brazen-faced adulterer
and murderer, who broke his freely volunteered oath, and sacrificed six innocent sons
of his king “to his Jhavh.” Jewish tribes were swept out of Syria long before these
old faiths. Let us skim lightly over some of the details from Solomon to the dispersion
and slavery. This king devoted his energies and some little wealth, as I have
said, to rearing Phallic, or Solo-Phallic and Fire shrines over all the high places around
him, and especially in front of Jerusalem, and on and around the Mount of Olives.
His favourite deities were Ashers and Asharoths, but chiefly woman, as Asherah or
Ishtar—that Phallic eye of p. 72. He was ever true to Kāma or Eros, and to Chemosh
the glowing burning god of love, whom Aryans called Tsoorya, and after whom probably
all Syria was called, though said to be from Tyre which worshipped Tsoorya.
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Fig 90—ASYRIAN WORSHIP OF FERTILITY—THE GROVE AND SUN-GOD