Forlong - Rivers of Life

Sun Worship.
an eternal rest or sleep, absorption in the Divine Spirit from which they believe they
emanated, or a personal existence in the presence of a personal God, when the singing
of psalms to his glory is to be the chief occupation of “the redeemed.”
Most cosmogonies relate a phallic tale of two individuals—A.. and E. meeting
in “a garden of delight” (Gan-Eden), and there being seduoed by a Serpent—Ar (Ari-man),
Hos, Op, or Orus—to perform the generative act which it is taught led to sin
and trouble, and this long before we hear of a spiritual God, or of Solar Deities;
although I have explained, etymologically and otherwise, what subsequent relators
of such tales seem to have meant. These Cosmogonies narrate a contest between
man and nature, in which the former “fell,” and must ever fall; for the laws of Sol
and his Seasons none can resist.
All Western Asiatics knew II, EI, Elu, or Elohim from the very earliest times,
and therefore these appear as the first names in my phallic stream, both before and
after the break. Elu I denote as the “Beth-el,” “Abode” or “Form of El,” that
shape in which El manifests himself as creating new life, i.e. the Lingam;
although this gross form always vanished from the eye and then the mind when men
began to appreciate his various modes of manifestation. It was on Great El that
Christ called at his crucifixion (and his ideas of the Almighty One had risen far beyond
those of his nation), when he exclaimed, “Eli, Eli, lama Sabakthani;” by which the
bystanders at once understood him to be invoking the aid of El or El-eas, and said:
“Let us see whether Elias (not El-īas, as some read this, and connect it with Elijah)
will come and help him.” This remark from the illiterate populace, who alone would
be about the place of crucifixion, shows us that they still kuew of Eli or El, la, although
for many centuries back their ancient God El had been usually called Yahveh, Jahveh,
Shadai, or Adonai. 1 In the book, written it is said by Hosea in the 8th. C. B.C.,
Jehovah said that when his people knew him better, they would no longer call him
Ba-ali, ylob (phallic Baal), bnt Ishi, ycya, which the margin correctly translates “My
husband,” for we are told that Ishi or Ishua signifies “the upright one,” “Jah, who
is salvation,” 2 and “My husband,” or in rural idiom, “My man.” The cuniform
Ish signifies sometimes “An old man,” but Ir, Ira, Iru, 3 &c., have all the meaning
of “the hot” or ardent and watchful one, and a “tower.” The Ceylonese call their
first planet Irroo, and all their planetary signs, as will be seen elsewhere, are morc or
less indecent emblems connectcd with the phallo-Sabean god Bāli—the head of the
Ceylon Solar faith, a very ancient and still tenacious cult.
Indra, the first Hindoo Sun-god—whose dress is covered with Yonis, like that of
the Jewish cherubims, page 480—stood for the fertilizing Ram, and his name is not far
not far removed from Ira, which in Sanskrit is water, and a common prefix for anything
connected therewith. Iravat is the ocean; and hence probably Iravati, Iyawady, or
1 There is no such word as Elohim in the Hebrew
Bible, but only Al-e-im = “Gods Al;” and “Eli”
or Al-e, is properly translated “My God” in Matt.
xxvii. 46. The terminal as is probably Greek.
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2
Hosea ii. 16, Fürst and Inman on 1 Chron. ii.
31; Gen. xlvi. 17.
3
Inman’s Anc. Faiths, I. 698.