g her little brood, and on either side a
tree and a flowering rosebush.

Here is the symbol par excellence of generation. The creative function
of the male and the female in procreative conjunctivity.

The employment of the eagle as a religious symbol may be traced back
to the civilization of the Hittites.

Only a few years ago, two English archaeologists discovered a
double-headed eagle in Asia. This was identical with those seen
perpetuating religious rites and ceremonies of the sex-worshipers. An
eagle holding in its talons a serpent is an emblem well known today.
The origin of the adoption of the eagle as a religious, though not
necessarily a "sacred," symbol by prehistoric races, may easily be
imagined, if we consider that the eagle is a bird of tremendous power;
and that it soars to unreachable heights; and that it unquestionably
was at some time seen to swoop down and carry off the serpent,
possibly even during their ceremonies of serpent-worship.

This idea becomes quite convincing when we also remember that the
ceremonies of the serpent worshipers were carried on, as far as
feasible, upon the mountain. We allude to this stage of religious
history as "serpent worship," but when we realize the points of
analogy between the serpent and the phallus it is apparent that the
serpent was only the nature-emblem of generation, as manifested by the
male principle.

"The eagle and the dove" is a phrase employed today to illustrate the
law of antithesis, and it is more than probable that the eagle
represented the lower nature of the sex-relation, in juxtaposition to
the higher, as the dove is emblematical of the spiritualized aspect of
sex-love. We have an analogy to that of the eagle and the dove in the
Biblical allusion to "the last day; when God will separate the 'sheep
from the goats,'" Here again is a pertinent reference to the sex
nature. The goat is a symbol of sensuality and lust, principally
because he has perverted sexual proclivities, notably that of
coercion. For this reason, Classical Mythology employs the satyr, a
creature half man and half goat, to typify the lowest form of the sex
call in man.

On the other hand, the lamb is the type of gentleness and affection,
and although in outward appearance the lamb and the goat are not
dissimilar, their natures are antithetical.

In estimating the God-idea of the Ancients, many mistakes have arisen
by confounding religious symbols with the "sacred" symbols. T