Forlong - Rivers of Life

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Rivers of Life, or Faiths of Man in all Lands.
to double letters, as double l’s, m’s, s’s, or h’s, nor to the h after consonants, nor the
Greek softened and nspimted p, as f instead of p. Scholiasts and copyists have here
very much pleased themselves as the cockney does with his h’s. Hebraists writing
Hebrew words in English constantly give double letters where the original has only a
single one, which no doubt the Phenicians and Greeks, also did, they soften and
aspirate p’s according to their fancy of the original; and especially so in words like
Phallus, which scholars tell us has no original Greek connection. The Greeks were
not only a very imaginative people but inveterate punsters, and seem to bave been very
free in this respect in regard to the very phallic symbol φ, which in early Hellenic days
was much more significant of that charm hanging from the neck of Apis (Pl. XIII. 9) than
F. This is the O with the pillar through it, and in Fig. 99, IV., 1-4, we see the same idea
as Egypt expressed probably some thousands of years before. All embrace the idea of
the male triad, and also of the heart, the Ait or Ain, organ of heat or passion, and
therefore of the Lingam and Yoni, over which, as elsewhere appears, it was and is the
proper orthodox covering, till the Pallium and Toga Virilis of the male, and Stole of the
female, took its place. The shape of such a heart was, however, rendered more pointed
or Lingam-like than we at present usually see.
Now, in getting rid of the Greek f. we arrive at the all-important conclusion, that
Pallas is Phallus, Palestine Phallastine, and therefore that Pallas-Athene is the
Lingam and Yoni Deity; which enables us to connect many names and ideas.
Fortunately the Latins and Syrians did not adopt the Greek orthography, preferring
the Egyptian mode of spelling the God’s name, and calling their God, or his “mountain
of light,” by such namea as Pala-tine, Pe-on, or Pe-or. This last was the high
mountain adjoining the holy Nebo, or conical hill, on which, says legend, the ark had
a place built for it where it long remained, and to which the two solar-named men,
Bal-ak and the priest Ba-al-am, went and sacrificed rams and bulls. The Is-ra-els,
as we may imagine, freely worshipped this Ba-al-Pe-or, though the writer of the story
(Num. xxii. and xxv.) says that Jhavh killed on this account 24,000 people with a
plague; the “evil-doing” was their joining themselves to Midianitish women. David
also gave the name of Ba-al-Pe-ra-zim to a place where his Jhavh gave him a victory
(2 Sam. v. 20), and Isaiah calls probably the same place Mount Pe-ra-zim (xxviii. 21).
We know now that Beth-el, Beth-Dagon, Beth-Ba-al, Beth-Peor and Beth-Shemesh
(all the h’s may be dropped) had the same general signification, viz., the Sun-God,
God the Lingam, or the Organ by which the Creator Acts. So Beor is but a variant
of Peor, which Gesenius tells us was “a Torch,” and Fürst “a Shepherd;” thus
showing us why torches or candles are used, and why priest are called “Shepherds.”
Now in turning to Genesis xlix. 24, 25, we learn that Israel’s “Shepherd” is Israel’s
“Stone,” and further that there is no necessity here for inserting the word “God,”
the clear meaning being that “the mighty stone of Jacob,” that is his Maha-deva, shall
bestow “the blessings of the breasts and of the womb,” and “of the heavens,” and “of