Introduction
I. Sex The Foundation Of The God-Idea
Ii. Tree, Plant, And Fruit Worship
Iii. Sun Worship--Female And Male Energies In The Sun
Iv. The Dual God Of The Ancients A Trinity Also
V. Separation Of The Female And Make Elements In The Deity
Vi. Civilization Of An Ancient Race
Vii. Concealment Of The Early Doctrines
Viii. The Original God-Idea Of The Israelites
Ix. The Phoenician And Hebrew God Set Or Seth
X. Ancient Speculations Concerning Creation
Xi. Fire And Phallic Worship
Xii. An Attempt To Purify The Sensualized Faiths
Xiii. Christianity A Continuation Of Paganism
Xiv. Christianity A Continuation Of Paganism --(Continued)
Xv. Christianity In Ireland
Xvi. Stones Or Columns As The Deity
Xvii. Sacrifices
Xviii. The Cross And A Dying Savior
From the Preface:
Nowhere is the influence of sex more plainly manifested than in the
formulation of religious conceptions and creeds. With the rise of
male power and dominion, and the corresponding repression of the
natural female instincts, the principles which originally constituted
the God-idea gradually gave place to a Deity better suited to the
peculiar bias which had been given to the male organism. An
anthropomorphic god like that of the Jews--a god whose chief
attributes are power and virile might--could have had its origin only
under a system of masculine rule.
P 75:
In all countries, at a certain stage in the history of religion, the
transference of female deified power to mortal man may be observed.
In the attempt to change Seth or Typhon into a male God may be noted
perhaps the first effort in Egypt to dethrone, or lessen the female
power in the god-idea.
The fact seems plain that the Great Typhon Seth, or Set, who conferred
on the sovereigns of the eighteenth and nineteenth dynasties of Egypt
"the symbols of life and power," was none other than the primitive
Regenerator or Destroyer, who was for ages worshipped as the God of
Nature the Aleim, or the life-giving energy throughout the
universe.
p 94:
No one I think can read the Avestas without being impressed by the
prominence there given to the subjects of temperance and virtue. In
their efforts to purify religion, and in the attempts to return to
their more ancient faith, the disciples of Zoroaster, as early as
eight hundred years before Christ, had adopted a highly spiritualized
conception of the Deity. They had taught in various portions of Asia
Minor the doctrine of one God, a dual entity by means of which all
things were created. They taught also the doctrine of a resurrection
and that of the immortality of the soul. It was at this time that
they originated, or at least propounded, the doctrine of hell and the
devil, a belief exactly suited to the then weakened mental condition
of mankind, and from which humanity has not yet gained sufficient
intellectual and moral strength to free itself. This Persian devil,
which had become identified with winter or with the absence of the
sun's rays, was now Aryhman, or the "powers of darkness," and was
doubtless the source whence sprang the personal devil elaborated at a
later age by Laotse in China.
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TGS Historical Reprint
written in 1905