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Tower of Babel, there had been almost a constant warfare. The rites
of Potin, or Photin, Bishop of Lyons, who was honored in Provence,
Languedoc and the Lyonais as St. Fontin, also the rites performed in
many of the Christian Churches as late as the 16th century, prove that
the devotees of the Christian system were not at this time a whit behind
their Pagan predecessors in their zeal for "heathen abominations." The
only difference being that the Druids, a people who still retained a
faint conception of ancient Nature worship, had not become entirely
divested of the purer ideas which in an earlier age of the race had
constituted a creative force.

That the war of the sexes was revived, and that for many centuries much
strife was engendered over the exact importance which should be ascribed
to the female element in the Deity may not be doubted.

An ancient homily on Trinity Sunday has the following: "At the deth of
a manne, three bells should be ronge as his kuyl in worship of the
Trinitie, and for a woman, who was the Second Person of the Trinitie
two bells should be ronge." Upon this subject Hargrave Jennings remarks:
"Here we have the source of the emblematic difficulty among the master
masons who constructed the earlier cathedrals, as to the addition, and
as to the precise value of the second (or feminine) tower of the Western
end or Galilee of the Church."(148)

148) Rosicrucians, vol. i., p. 206.

The fact that the religion of the ancient Irish, who, were phallic
worshippers, was modified but not radically changed by the introduction
of Christianity, is believed by at least one of the Irish historians of
that country. He says:

"The church festivals themselves, in our Christian calendar, are but the
direct transfers from the Tuath-de-danaans' ritual. Their very names in
Irish are identically the same as those by which they were distinguished
by that early race. If, therefore, surprise has heretofore been excited
at the conformity observable between our church institutions and those
of the East, let it in future subside at the explicit announcement that
Christianity, with us, was the revival of a religion imported amongst us
many ages before by the Tuath-de-danaans from the East, and not from any
chimerical inundation of Greek missionaries--a revival upon which their
hearts were lovingly riveted, and which Fiech, the Bishop of Sletty,
unconsciously registers in the following couplet, viz.: