The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg, [1930], at sacred-texts.com
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Phallic symbols in ancient art | |
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Primitive man's crude portrayal of the creative force | |
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Sex pervaded the art of Old Anthropology Adam | |
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An Egyptian phallic altar | |
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A demon of love | |
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Man's first church; his best-loved god | |
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From an old Egyptian urn | |
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Venus and Cupid fulfilling their mission of love | |
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A Phallic amulet | |
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Brahma created himself double | |
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At the altar of Priapus | |
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When gods made merry | |
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A Hindu goddess offering a lingam | |
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A Hindu god in copulation | |
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Venus in a phallic shrine | |
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Siva as the Hermaphroditic God | |
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In the Temple of Siva | |
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Siva leaning on the lingam | |
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The Persian Triad | |
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The Serpent the Sacred Image of the Solo-Phallic Cult | |
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Serpent worship in early Christian art | |
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A Serpent god | |
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Kwan-yin, the Oriental Queen of Heaven | |
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Maya, the Hindu goddess | |
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An Oriental divinity | |
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The Sheela-na-gig | |
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An early Priapic statue | |
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As the god of love developed | |
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The Scandinavian tree of life | |
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At a Baalic festival | |
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Anubis as the guardian of the Dead | |
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Priestesses of Aphrodite | |
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Hers was the life of an actress | |
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Lamenting for Attis | |
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love | |
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Dionysos on his phallic throne | |
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Dionysia | |
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The marriage of Psyche and Eros | |
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The eternal Sakti | |
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A female demon in ancient India | |
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Devaki seated on a lotus flower | |
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Jehovah, God of Battles | |
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A sacrificial altar | |
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Warding off the unclean spirits | |
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The universe a dualism seeking unity | |
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An old conception of the Cherubim | |
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Symbols in early Christian art | |
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Thecla | |
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Cave church of the Apocalypse in Patmos | |
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Spiritual lovers | |
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The marriage of St. Catherine | |
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St. Teresa | |
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The Church as the Bride of Christ | |
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Christian symbolism in the Catacombs | |
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Medieval Hell | |
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Jesus in the womb of the Virgin | |
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The Spirit of God | |
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A Mohammedan fish nymph | |
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The Black Stone | |
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A Negro god | |
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The Virgin shares her altar with Legba | |
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The Christian God worshipped in Voodoo fashion | |
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Images of the Voodoo gods | |
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The Spirit of God | |
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A symbol of life | |
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A Gnostic gem | |
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Symbols of fertility | |
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The Evil Spirit tempting the soul of a pagan idol | |
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When the devil was a god | |
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Kali, lover of death |