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race-mind was in its kindergarten stage, and all ideals were instilled
by means of pictures--a method which even the present hour finds most
effective.

In modern theological symbolism we have God and the Devil; Heaven and
Hell; angels and demons, to illustrate by antithesis.

They all belong to religious symbology, but only those which teach
spiritual ideals are denominated "sacred."

"Riding the goat," alleged to be the almost invariable initiatory
prelude to fitness for membership in all secret orders, means, first
of all, that the would-be initiate must have control over his lower
sexual desires. If he cannot control the goat instincts within his
nature, he stands small chance of taking the higher degrees of
spiritual regeneration, through transmutation.

In another symbolic chart presenting the secrets of alchemical
transmutation, we find depicted "The Gate of Eternal Wisdom," and we
are further informed that this "gate" also brings "knowledge of God."
The design of this cave-like aperture should betray its esoteric
meaning. It is situated under a mound, upon which trees are planted.
The inscriptions on the corrugated walls of the cave, are evidently
designed to resemble seven lotus petals, and are set forth as the
seven mysteries. Inscriptions warning against profanation of this
sacred gate, and also promising eternal life and glory to the true
initiate, inspire the intrepid and deter the doubtful. Of these
latter, several are outside the entrance. Two are on the steps leading
to the mouth of the cave but their attitude bespeaks doubt of their
worthiness. Only one has penetrated to the radiant center of the
aperture, and there is room for but the one to enter the radiance of
the solar gate, which truly bestows a knowledge that is "of God."

Sex Symbology is a subject that calls for a large volume devoted to
this special side of it, and we cannot hope to do more here than to
touch a few of the almost universal proofs of the contention which is
the purpose of this book, namely, that the supreme goal of life,
typified in every religion, every philosophy, and in the intuitional
knowledge of the human mind, is spiritual sex-union; and that this can
be accomplished only by counterparts; the two halves of the bi-une god
seed uniting in one immortal and complete pair--a man and a woman.
Not, we must again emphasize, not in a hermaphroditic personality, but
in two perfect complementaries--mates; not _one_ but _a p