er of the four arms or legs,
of the cross, accomplish that which is said (and truthfully if taken
on the physical plane only) to be impossible of accomplishment--they
square the circle. A circle is emblematical of completeness. Aum, the
Absolute, the Omniscient, is always typified by a circle. To "square
the circle" means esoterically to have reached godhood, and this can
be accomplished only by the male and female _united_ in spirit. The
swastika is essentially a bi-une sex symbol although it has been
sometimes called male and sometimes female, according to its shape,
which varies with the various meanings ascribed to it. Primitive man
was not prolific in language, and one symbol expressed many ideas
according to its varied form and position.

The original form of oath was to swear by the sacred power of the
generative organs, and we may readily conclude that this power was
conceded to be vested in the male only, from the fact that we still
"testify" when under oath and although the Bible has been substituted
for the generative organs, as an outward expression of our recognition
of the Creative Principle, we note that the Bible is made up of
"testaments," which stand for its "sacredness."

Evidently it was only after the advent of the male God that oaths and
vows and pledges were necessary. Previous to that time, a man's word
was reliable. It was inevitable that an ideal of the Supreme Creative
power of the universe so one-sided, and so lacking in the essential of
union, must degenerate into mere licentiousness and animalism; and it
is estimated that about six hundred years B.C. the level of debauchery
and vileness reigned. So-called religious rites and ceremonies were
nothing more than orgies of sex-degradation.

The ideal of godhood as nothing higher than masculine virility and
power evidenced by the number of his progeny, naturally reduced woman
to the lowest depths of slavery, since she was nothing more than a
receptacle for man's seed. Of course one wife was insufficient and a
man's claim to divinity was best expressed by profligacy--an ideal
which is rife even today among those, whose consciousness is bounded
by nothing higher than the conception of the animal nature of man.

Whence came this wonderful thing manifested as generative power? What
did it feed upon? These were natural queries. In seeking the answer
the idea originated that in the blood was to be found the secret of
the generative fluid. This idea