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"He shall establish" and "In it is strength" are in the Bible the marginal interpretations of these two words. The connection between the production of fire by means of the fire-drill and the generation of life by sex-intercourse is a very obvious one, and lends itself to magical ideas. Hence we have, he says, the Magi of Persia, and the Maghadas of Indian History, also the word "Magic."
The early Church not only offered widows the moral help of its sacraments and consolations, it also granted a special dignity with certain privileges to those who made a vow to refrain from sex-intercourse. They had in the basilicas, even as the consecrated virgins, a place of honour, divided from that of the other matrons by a balustrade. They wore a special dress.
Professor Diederichs has said that "in much ancient ritual it was thought that mystic communion with the deity could be obtained through the semblance of sex-intercourse as in the Attis-Cybele worship, and the Isis-ritual." Farnell, op. cit., iii. 176. Messrs. In the stage of simple Consciousness this must have been one of the first things that the budding intellect perceived.
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