The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Masculine Cross, by Anonymous

Title: The Masculine Cross

A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: April 10, 2012 [eBook #39414]

Language: English

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The Masculine Cross.

God Indra Nailed to a Cross.		Buddhist Cross.
Cross Common on Ancient Assyrian Monuments.		Ancient Heathen,—Mexican Cross.

THE

Masculine Cross

OR

A HISTORY OF

Ancient and Modern Crosses

AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE

Mysteries of Sex Worship

ALSO

An Account of the Kindred Phases

OF

Phallic Faiths and Practices.

PRIVATELY PRINTED

1904.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

In the following pages certain things supposed to be of comparatively modern origin have been traced back to the remotest historic ages of the world; as a consequence, it follows that the modern symbolical meaning given to such things is sometimes only one acquired in subsequent times, and not that exactly which was originally intended,—it must not be supposed, therefore, that the interpretation belonging to the epoch in which we are first enabled to trace a definite meaning is to be conclusively regarded as that which gave birth to the form of the symbol. The original may have been—probably was—very different to what came after; the starting point may have been simplicity and purity, whilst the developments of after years were degrading and vicious. Particularly so was this the case in the Lingam worship of the vast empire of India; originally the adoration of an Almighty Creator of all things, it became, in time, the worship of the regenerative powers of material nature, and then the mere indulgence in the debased passions of an abandoned and voluptuous nature.

With regard to the symbol of the Cross, it may be repugnant to the feelings of some to be told that their