rsistence today in the Catholic service of the Mass, where
the priest raises the Eucharist as the "Holy of Holies" in which is
generated the Christ-man, and before whom all human devotees bow the
head that they may not look upon the perfection and beauty of its pure
radiance. Neither is the priest supposed to touch the chalice with
uncovered hands. He prepares himself by fasting and prayer before he
mounts the altar upon which this "Holy of Holies" is hidden from view.

The pattern of the Eucharist with its golden circle and radiations is
easily recognizable by any one who is familiar with the symbols of
yoni worship. Nor should this fact be distasteful to any one, although
it is either concealed, or flatly denied by the Church, since it is
only through the elevation of the sex-function that the Christ-man can
be born into the physical realms. The reason that this truth is either
concealed or denied by the Church is due to the influence of Greek and
Roman civilization, which subjugated woman to the control of man. This
debasement of woman reached its culmination under Roman rule and is
unquestionably the psychic cause of the fall of the Greek and Roman
empires.

If we will but take home to ourselves the important lesson that
neither sex is fundamentally, or even relatively, superior, but only
different; that no race is permanently in advance of another, but that
each little group and class of humans has its particular contribution
to the sum of knowledge, we will have done much toward freeing the
mind from the shackles of ignorance--that darkness which obscures our
inner vision. Let this truth penetrate the egotism of so-called
civilized races. Let it sink into the minds of the men and women of
this century: we are of service to the world in proportion as we are
different and not identical. In the direct ratio of our individuality
is our contribution to the work of the cosmic law, which is seeking
to lift the planet earth out of its undeveloped state into celestial
light.

The symbol of the Eucharist, occupying as it does an important place
in a religious system which is otherwise essentially masculine, is one
of the many evidences of the persistence of Truth. For approximately
four thousand years, phallic worship has predominated over the earlier
ideal, which was embodied in the "virgin of the spheres," the emblem
of the Female Principle as eternal motherhood; and in the sacred
character of androgynous plants and fl