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Updated: June 10, 2025
The famous Black Stone of Mecca, to which religious honours are paid, is also said by authorities to be a phallic symbol. References to phallic worship may be found in many parts of the Bible, and authoritative writers like Mr. Hargrave Jennings and Major-General Forlong have not hesitated to assert that the god of the Jewish Ark was a sexual symbol.
Regarding the upright shaft which stands sentinel over the mysterious circles of mammoth stones called Stonehenge, Forlong says that it is no Friar's Heel, but an emblem of fertility dedicated to the Friday divinity. It is represented as the "Genius of Fire," not the genius of ordinary fire, "but of the super-sensual Divinity, celestial fire."
Of this tree Forlong remarks: "Though now amidst ruins and wild forests, and although having stood thus in solitary desolation for some 1500 years, yet there it still grows, and is worshipped and deeply revered by more millions of our race than any other god, prophet, or idol, which the world has ever seen."
In referring to the "sculptured indecencies" connected with religious rites, which, being wrought in imperishable stone, have been preserved in India and other parts of the East, Forlong says that when occurring in the temples or other sacred places they are at the present time evidently very puzzling to the pious Indians, and in their attempts to explain them they say they are placed there "in fulfilment of vows," or that they have been wrought there "as punishments for sins of a sexual nature, committed by those who executed or paid for them."
Of this sacred place Forlong writes: "Christianity has never neglected this so-called Pagan shrine, nor yet misunderstood it, if we may judge by the saint she has located here, for Mr. Hobhouse found in the rocky chasm dipped in the dews of Castaly, but safe in a rocky niche, a Christian shrine; and close by a hut called the church of St.
This position must have been carefully selected, as from no other point are the three peaks visible. General Forlong, in commenting on this, says "'Here, then, we have an earth-formed snake, emerging in the usual manner from the dark blue water, at the base, as it were, of a triple cone Scotland's Mount Hermon just as we so frequently meet snakes and their shrines in the East.
A description of the Sakti ceremony is given by Major-General Forlong, Faiths of Man, iii. pp. 228-9. Westropp, Primitive Symbolism, p. 30. Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought, p. 256. Forlong, Faiths of Man, iii. p. 66. Primitive Symbolism, p. 36. Primitive Paternity, i. pp. 63-4.
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