Ancient Symbol Worship - Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity #229626

Herein, it may be, the ancients have us at disadvantage. They worshipped the Supreme Being as the Father of men, and saw no impurity in the symbolism of parentage to indicate the work of creation. What is divine to be and to do cannot be ill] modest and wicked to express. No man born of woman can with decency impugn the operation of -that law to which he owes his existence and he is impious beyond others who regards that law as only sensual. We may easily perceive how the phallic emblems were adopted to denote the kinship of mankind to the Creator. Those who employed them apprehended no wrong in so doing, till impurity of life had caused all that related to the subject to be considered as indecorous.