oncerning the time of the flood, and the
age of Deucalion or Phroneous or Noah, this functionary replied:

"O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children, nor is there an old
man among you! Having no ancient traditions nor any acquaintance with
chronology, you are as yet in a state of intellectual infancy. The true
origin of such mutilated fables as you possess is this. There have
been and shall again be in the course of many revolving ages, numerous
destructions of the human race; the greatest of them by fire and water,
but others in an almost endless succession of shorter intervals."(47)

47) Quoted by Plato; also by Clement of Alexandria.

We have observed that the symbol of the universe was an egg. The egg
was also the symbol of the earth and of the ark, which meant universal
womanhood. From the mundane egg the triplicated Deity sprang. There can
be little doubt at the present time that Adam, Noah, Menu, Osiris, and
Dionysos all represent the fructifying power of the sun. In process of
time they each came to figure as male reproductive energy, and during
certain periods of the earth's history they have each in turn been
worshipped as the Deity. That not only the ark was female, but that the
god element or reproductive principle within the ark was both female and
male, is a fact which has been lost sight of during the historic period,
or during those ages of the world in which the attempt has been made to
prove Nature motherless.

All the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and which
were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and males; and,
besides, the Dove (female), the emblem of peace, was also present. Even
Noah himself was produced from an egg, which, as we have seen, is
the symbol of Venus, or universal womanhood. In after ages the female
principle was not mentioned, but, on the contrary, was concealed beneath
convenient symbols; and as the philosophical ideas underlying natural
religion were lost or forgotten, and mankind had become too ignorant to
perceive that a dual force, female and male which was also a Trinity,
pervades Nature, the notion came gradually to prevail that the creative
agency, which is spirit, is altogether male. Hence the formulation of
the inconceivable doctrine of a Trinity composed of a Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost.

CHAPTER V. SEPARATION OF THE FEMALE AND HALE ELEMENTS IN THE DEITY.

Glimpses of antiquity as far back as human ken can reach r