owers, which were characterized
as feminine, such, for example, as the lily, the lotus, and the fleur
de lis. These flowers are still regarded as more or less sacred, and
they are called feminine, although really androgynous.

The lotus, long held sacred because of its androgynous character, has
been regarded as typical of the One Perfect One, because it is
supposed that the lotus reproduces itself without the male pollen. But
close examination of the flower will show that the little seed-vessel
in the center of the flower is shaped like a pine cone, in which are
tiny cells too small to let out the seeds as occurs in most plant and
seed life; these tiny seeds having no outlet, shoot when ripe into new
plants, the bulb of the plant being the matrix or womb of the new
life. Thus it is evident, that although the two sexes are not as
pronounced in the lotus as in the lily, yet the bulb and the cone are
both present in the lotus, making the plant bi-sexual, and not
feminine alone.

Our modern Easter festival, in which the lily is recognized as the
representative par excellence of the renewal of abundant life and
energy, the "sacred" flower, is a tribute to the Feminine Principle in
the Deity, as the lily like the lotus is called feminine, although in
reality bi-sexual.

The lily and the Eucharist have survived the centuries in which the
male principle has dominated, as the one true and only God--the giver
of life, the energizing power of Creation--and the lily and the
Eucharist are both representative of the Female principle.

Historians mark the beginning of the worship of the _One True God_,
defined philosophically as the "Monistic" God-idea, from the building
of the tower of Babel, and we may here note in passing that in the
earliest references to this tower, there is no allusion to anything
suggestive of "confusion of tongues." The name unquestionably came
from "babil" meaning "the gate of God." Thus only is its meaning
obvious, and consistent with the worship of the lingam and phallus
which obtained at that time. It is also evident that the phallic
worshippers borrowed the simile of "the gate of God" from the
worshippers of the yoni, who based their claim to truth upon the
indisputable fact, that out of the womb comes the life of plant, and
animal, and man.

The architecture of, and the inscriptions on, the tower of Babel show
conclusively that it was a monument to the victory of the phallic
worshippers over the