ecognized fact that only those
qualities of mind and soul can be expected to endure, or reach
immortal godhood, which are of an exalted character. Which is to say
what the present day orthodox creed says, that immortality belongs
only to those who are pure in heart.

From the Eleusirian festivals is derived our custom of taking holy
communion, the symbol of the Lord's supper; albeit the substitution of
the male principle in the Christian ceremony attests the fact that the
phallic symbol ultimately supplanted the yoni, as a deific symbol.
Phallic worship reached its height during Hebrew and Assyrian
supremacy, and was perpetuated by Greek and Roman materialism.
Superstition is nothing more than Truth degenerated by men from a
spiritual to a material application. That which is held in awe and
reverence by any race; that which is embodied in the traditions of
every tribe on the globe; that which persists throughout all times
will be found to have a fundamental basis of truth, no matter how
obscured it may be by the ignorance with which it is so frequently
associated.

The sacredness of Sex, as exemplifying the Supreme Creative Energy,
underlies all the traditional ideals of man, from the fetishes of the
Central African savage to the cathedral spires which rise above the
din of our modern commercial civilization. The prejudiced and the
superficial observer of so-called "heathen" rites and ceremonies
records only the superstitions, and sees only the evidences of
depravity and savagery. He overlooks the fact that the spirit of the
idea conveyed may have been the highest ideal of an early race which
has sunk, as have all races during certain periods of the world's
evolution into the depths of a materialism, from which all races are
today emerging.

All mystic truths are expressed in symbolism. It has been said that
these truths are "veiled;" this is true only because the observer has
not yet learned to speak the language. The universal language is
symbolism. In the early Egyptian, the Indian, and the Hebrew
religions, the fundamental idea was the two generating principles (or
we might say the two aspects of the One principle) of generation. The
two in spiritual _union_ represented the Infinite--the Deity. The
Hebrew word "Elohim" is plural, and means male and female united,
forming the One Perfect and Complete Being. This union is the "Holy of
Holies" of the ancient mystics and alchemists. We see its reflection
and its pe