told with astonishing lack of variation, in every tongue and
throughout every nation on this earth.

The stories involving the turning of men into animals and their final
restoration to human form, as a reward for some service, some
sacrifice, typifies the two-fold nature of Man. He may live in his
animal, or exterior nature; or he may develop his spiritual, or
interior nature; through service; through unselfish love. Our limited
mortal consciousness is responsible for the tendency to personify
everything, instead of to realize the principles underlying all
expression. God and the Devil have been the personification of the two
phases of the principles of Evolution, from animal man to spiritual
man.

Romulus and Remus have been presented as an actual and specific
instance of twins; likewise Castor and Pollux. Almost every child
instinctively alludes to himself or herself, as either "the good
little me" or the "bad little me." "O, I didn't do that; it was the
bad little Dorothy," or "Harold," as the case may be, is the
child-like way of expressing the innate consciousness that there is
an interior and an exterior nature to all of us.

The union of gods with mortals, which forms the gist of Mythological
tales, symbolizes the god-like and the mortal qualities inherent in
human nature. Mortals raised to the abode of the gods; and the gods
descended into mortal life; symbolize the interchangeability of what
we term matter and spirit--the power of transmutation of the lower
into the higher life.

Volumes could be written upon the subject, and we will therefore try
to confine our reviews to the symbolical traditions which deal most
directly with the relations of the sexes.

In religious symbology, the story of the ark stands as the supreme
type of creation, through the conjunction of the sexes.

The cherubim are, when all is said and done, nothing more, nor yet
less, than spiritual children--the result of spiritual sex-union.

And in this later synoptic mysticism of the ark of the Covenant, we
are informed that "every gift within the tabernacle is willingly
offered." If we will but contemplate the volumes of wisdom contained
within that sentence, we cannot fail to conclude that every
infinitesimal particle of coercion in whatsoever shape and form,
individual, economic, ethical, or religious, must be excluded from the
regenerated, perfect, ideal sex-relation; otherwise we do not attain
it.

If the Ancients seemed to