yoni, proving that the "one true and only God"
was male. From that time also God has been alluded to as "He,"
although in the Oriental countries, and particularly among the Hindus,
we find repeated allusions to the Deity as "The Divine Mother," and
all the higher qualities are spoken of as feminine. It is because of
this fact also, that we note the spread of Oriental religions and
philosophies in this day of Woman's uprising. The Orientals retained
the divinity of the female principle in theory, but not in fact.

Sex-worship is contemptuously alluded to in modern literature as
"strange and erotic ideas," or words equally condemnatory. But this is
an absurd stand, since nothing could be more natural than that the
mystery of Creative Life should arouse our interest and our wonder;
and it certainly ought to enlist our highest reverence. It becomes
erotic only when men fail to worship in "spirit and in truth," and
when the letter of the ideal survives, and the spirit is ignored. It
becomes not only erotic but destructive when it involves a fight for
supremacy between the male and the female. When the spirit of union
shall prevail, which it must in a perfected world, no higher form of
religious aspiration can be imagined than that in which the miracle of
birth is reverenced and idealized. Then, and not until then, will the
family be what it should be, and Love, the one and only true God, be
worshipped.

The trinity in unity has been a widespread and persistent part of all
religions, from which fact we may logically infer that this ideal has
a permanent place in the sum of human knowledge. Truth is often
obscured, but it can never be hidden from the eyes that are seeking
the light. The rightful interpretation of those ancient and obscured
truths, erroneously classified as "myths" and "superstitions," will
reveal a universal truth, and will also show their relation to modern
concepts.

But while we note a vague recognition of the female element in all our
modern religious systems, the general acceptance of the God-idea as
monistic and the gender of this monistic God as masculine betrays the
domination of phallicism over yoni worship and also over that of the
two principles in conjunction--the bi-une Deity. The tree is
universally accepted as an emblem of life-energy. The upright shape of
the tree; the sap which rises at certain periods from invisible
sources; and the fact that the germinal power of the seeds of the
fruits