ch is never to be lifted, perhaps
not even by the angels, for their knowledge is limited. In short, this
tremendous abstraction, Cybele, Ideae, Mater, Isiac controller of the
Zodiacs, whatever she may be, has her representative in the half-buried
Sphinx even to our own day, watching the stars although nearly swallowed
up in the engulphing sands."(58)

58) Phallicism, p. 25.

From the time when the two religious elements began to separate in the
minds of the people, the prophets, seers, and priestesses of the old
religion, those who continued to worship the Virgin and Child, had
prophesied that a mortal woman, a virgin, would, independently of the
male principle, bring forth a child, the fulfilment of which prophecy
would vindicate the ancient faith and forever settle the dispute
relative to the superiority of the female in the office of reproduction.
Thus would the woman "bruise the serpent's head." In process of time not
only Yonigas, but Lingajas as well, came to accept the doctrine of the
incarnation of the sun in the bodies of earthly virgins. By Lingaites,
however, it was the seed of the woman and not the woman herself who was
to conquer evil. Finally, with the increasing importance of the male in
human society, it is observed that a reconciliation has been effected
between the female worshippers and those of the male. Athene herself has
acquiesced in the doctrine of male superiority.

Thalat, the great Chaldean Deity, who presided over Chaos prior to the
existence of organized matter, is finally transformed into a male God.
The Hindoo Vishnu, who as she slept on the bottom of the sea brought
forth all creation, has changed her sex. Brahm, the Creator, is male,
and appears as a triplicated Deity in the form of three sons within
whom is contained the essence of a Great Father, the female creative
principle being closely veiled.

Hence we see that the God of the ancients, the universal dual force
which resides in the sun and which creates all things, is no longer
worshipped under the figure of a mother and her child. Although the
female principle is still a necessary factor in the creative processes,
and although it is capable of producing gods, the mother element
possesses none of the essentials which constitute a Deity. In other
words, woman is not a Creator. From the father is derived the soul of
the child, while from the mother, or from matter, the body is formed.
Hence the prevalence at a certain st