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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
This Molten Sea, Fig, 90. was, we are assuered, most correctly constructed. As
it represented woman, so all the females of Jerusalem brought forth their most
representative emblem—the Mirror—which as Maya the Sanskrit Aryan calls Illusion,
a word I believe really meaning that by which man may reproduce or reflect himself.
Anyhow, the mirror is a most suitable and universal emblem of Maya over all Asia; in
this, Fig. 91, I show it in the form it is constantly found in the palaces and temples of the
Nile. The head ornament or burden of the woman is here a Cone, similar to that which
Egyptian women are usually shown with; for if Siva carries Luna, and the Agathodemon a
lotus, then woman must so honour the Cone; and I believe the
first occasion on which they likewise came freely forward
and poured their golden trinkets into Aaron’s lap, was for the
construction of such a golden Cone, and not a Calf as the
LXX. translators tell us. As the Jewesses of the desert well
knew their own religion and the object of their affections, so
I think did those of Jerusalem know the cult they were enriching,
and the sexual proclivities of their king and his very
Sivaik shrine. They knew well that the large “bowl” for
which they were giving those ornaments—so precious to a
woman’s heart—was no mere bowl for water; justs as, I believe,
their ancient mothers knew that it was no mere calf that
Fig 92—EGYPTIAN MIRROR AND
WOMAN
Aaron made, and before which they bowed down. The word
lnu, used in Exodus xxxii. as “Calf,” signifies, we are told
by Parkhurst, something “Round” or “Orbicular,” as a
“round ornament;” even a “round ring,” “car,” or “corn-wain,” &c. He particu-
larly warns us that, as translated “Calf,” we are merely to consider this “Emblematic,”
and because such, “both to believers and unbelievers and heathem, was a
representative of FIRE.” “The golden calves of Aaron and Jeroboam were,”
continues this very orthodox Hebraist, “set up as secondary representatives of
the First Person (as we speak) of the ever blessed Trinity, whose primary em-
blem was FIRE. . . . . Both Aaron and Jeroboam meant their respective CALVES
FOR EMBLEMS OF JEHOVAH . . . . . and each called his respective calf ALEIM,” who
is the Lord and God of the Old Testament; so that the conclusion arrived at is,
that Fire and Apis or Aphis were true emblems of Jehovah. In fact, we may say
that this Jah was Fire and Apis; and we need not dispute, therefore, as to whether
“the gold ear-rings” of the Aaronic tribes were made into a “Calf,” or, as I think, into
an “orbicular” object, or “mass,” “embroyo” or “fœtus;” or into a cone which is
usually called “the breaker through,” a true meaning of lnu (Fürst), and a very proper
emblem for Jah, whose name, says the same great Hebraist, signifies “The Increaser”
Mr. Parkhurst was probably not aware that the Hindoo called this seat of “Fire,” the
Agni-Mandalam!