who have not given much consideration to these subjects will be
apt to wonder that any people should be found to offer adoration to the
evil principle; but they do not consider that, in all these recondite
systems, the evil principle, or the Destroyer, or Lord of Death, was at
the same time the Regenerator. He could not destroy but to reproduce,
and it was probably not till this principle began to be forgotten, that
the evil being, per se, arose; for in some nations this effect seems to
have taken place. Thus Baal-Zebub is, in Iberno Celtic, Baal Lord, and
Zab Death, Lord of Death; but he is also called Aleim, the same as the
God of the Israelites; and this is right, because he was one of the
Trimurti or Trinity.

"If I be correct respecting the word Aleim being feminine, we here see
the Lord of Death of the feminine gender; but the Goddess Ashtaroth or
Astarte, the Eoster of the Germans, was also called Aleim. Here again
Aleim is feminine, which shows that I am right in making Aleim the
plural feminine. Thus we have distinctly found Aleim the Creator (Gen.
i., 1), Aleim the Preserver, and Aleim the Destroyer, and this not by
inference, but literally expressed."(87)

87) Anacalypsis, ch. ii., p. 66.

At one period of their history the Hebrews worshipped Ashtaroth and
Baal, they together representing the great Aleim, the indivisible God,
but after the Israelites had chosen the worship of the male principle
as an independent deity, or as the only important agency in the creative
processes, as Baal might not be represented aside from his counterpart
Ashtaroth, he was no longer adored but came to stand for something
"approaching the Devil." Forlong has observed the fact that, although in
Hebrew Baal is masculine, in the Greek translations he is feminine both
in the Old and New Testaments.(88)

88) Forlong, Rivers of Life, p. 223.

Jehovah was originally female, so, also, was Netpe the Holy Spirit of
the Egyptian Tree of Life. We are given to understand that Netpe was the
same as Rhea, the partner of Sev or Saturn, and that her hieroglyphic
name was "Abyss of Heaven." Osiris was the son of this goddess who was
really a Mai or Mary, the Celestial Mother, he being the only God of
the Egyptians who was born upon this earth and lived among men. Of
this Forlong remarks: "His birthplace was Mount Sinai; called by the
Egyptians Nysa, hence his Greek name Dionysos."

As the Palm was the first offering of Moth