halt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall
thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal
him:

"But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

"And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

"And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you."(84)

84) Deuteronomy xiii.

The constantly recurring faithlessness of the Jews, their restlessness
and proneness to wander from their one-principled deity which had
been set up by their priests for them to worship, was doubtless an
unconscious effort on the part of the people to mitigate the outrage
which had been committed against their Creator. It was but a reaching
out for that lost or unrecognized element which comprehends the more
essential force both in human beings and in the conception of a deity.
In other words, it was an attempt at recognition, in the objects
worshipped, of that missing female element which had always been
worshipped, and without which a Creator becomes a misnomer--a
meaningless, unexplained, and unexplainable monstrosity.

When the Jews first make their appearance in history, they are sun
worshippers, as are all the nations by which they are surrounded. They
are worshippers of Seth the Destroyer and Regenerator; but when the
philosophical truths underlying the ancient universal religion were
forgotten, or when through ignorance the language setting forth
these mysteries was taken literally, Seth became identified with the
Destroyer, or the Evil Principle. In the meantime man had come to
believe himself the sole creator of offspring. He is spirit, which is
eternal; woman is matter, which is not only destructible but altogether
evil. He is heat or passion--the principle through which life is
produced. She represents the absence of heat. She is the simoom of the
desert and the chilly blast which destroys.

That it was no part of their plan to change their original form of
worship for a spiritual conception of a Creator is apparent from their
history. On the contrary, it is plain that they desired simply to
eliminate from the hitherto dual conception of a deity the female
principle, which, in their arrogance, and because o