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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
edifices abound in ancient countries , where this worship was either primitive , or introduced at later periods , ancl fully illustrate these facts . Wilford remarks ( vol . iii . 3 G 5 ) , that " the Phallus was publicly worshipped by theNAME of BALESWARALINGA , onthebanksof theEuphrates . The cubic room in the cave of Elephanta , likewise contains the Lingam , ( vol . iv . 413 ) , as does also the pagoda of stone at MIIIEIIBAMPOBAM , or Citof the Groat Baal ( volv 69 ) Sir WJones observes ( vol . ii .
y , . . . . , 47 ) , " Columns were erected , perhaps as gnomons , others probably to represent the Phallus of Iswara . " Enough has here been cited , without doubt , to dispose both the learned and the unlearned to consider , that the true signification of the pillar and tower was in reality such as has here been stated .
In many parts of the holy writings we find the pillar to have been undoubtedly a sacred emblem ; as in Isaiah , xix : " In that day shall there be an altar to JEHOVAH , in the midst of the land of Egypt , and a pillar at the border thereof , to Jehovah , and it shall be for a sign , and a witness to the Lord . " Antl this was the especial form m which it pleased God himself to appear , when he dwelt in the pillar that went before his chosen people , as solemnly recorded by Moses . rites of
When , however , p illars were set up to receive the profane idolatrous worship , we find them noticed in Scripture as an abomination , in like manner as their great Baby lonian archetype ; which , being obnoxious to the wrath of God , as such , was destroyed by fire from Heaven , as its blasted and vitrified ruins still remain incontrovertibly to attest . To this peculiar idolatry Scripture refers in the following —Deutxii 3 " Ye shall overthrow their altarsand break
passages : . . : , their pillars , & c . Levit . xxvi , 1 : "Ye shall make ye no idols , nor graven image , neither rear ye up a standing image . " ( Ileb . pillar ) 1 Kings , xiv . 23 ; " For they also built them high places , aud images , ( Heb . standing images ) , on every high hill . " Ezek . xvi . 17 , 24 , 25 ; " Thou madest to thyself images of men , ( Heb . of a male ) , and didst commit , " & c . ( See 31 st verse and following ) . Also Jer . xi . 13 ; " According to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up
altars to that shameful thing , " & c . The same is also alluded to in the striking history recorded in Judges , vi . 32 ; " Therefore he called the idol Jerubbaal , ( or Jerubbesheth , Heb . ) , i . e . let the shameful thing plead . " And a final warning , and most significant counsel , was given to the Israelites by Moses , Deut . iv . 15 , 16 : " Take ye therefore good heed uuto yourselves , for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that JEHOVAH spake unto you in Horeb , out of the midst of the fire : the similitude
lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image , of any figure , the likeness of MALE or FEMALE !" Having thus briefly noticed the worship of the LINGAM , or male principle , it remains to show what was the true and real thing signified under the form of the pyramid , triangle , or cone : and with respect to tlie mysteries concealed and represented in the figure of the pyramid , I apprehendthat before MrO'Brien ' s luminous remarks on that subject ,
, . the scientific world in general , were in almost Cimmerian obscurity as to the real and opposite tendency of the worship indicated by edifices erected in that form ; and a remark in the Asiatic Researches , ( vol . ii . 477 ) , that "the pyramids of Egypt , as well as those discovered in Ireland ( pyramids !) and probably too the Tower of Babel , seem to have been intended as nothing more than images of Mahadeo , " shows how confused were the notions of the learned , as to the real character of the
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On The Causes Of The Original Dispersion Of Primitive Nations,
edifices abound in ancient countries , where this worship was either primitive , or introduced at later periods , ancl fully illustrate these facts . Wilford remarks ( vol . iii . 3 G 5 ) , that " the Phallus was publicly worshipped by theNAME of BALESWARALINGA , onthebanksof theEuphrates . The cubic room in the cave of Elephanta , likewise contains the Lingam , ( vol . iv . 413 ) , as does also the pagoda of stone at MIIIEIIBAMPOBAM , or Citof the Groat Baal ( volv 69 ) Sir WJones observes ( vol . ii .
y , . . . . , 47 ) , " Columns were erected , perhaps as gnomons , others probably to represent the Phallus of Iswara . " Enough has here been cited , without doubt , to dispose both the learned and the unlearned to consider , that the true signification of the pillar and tower was in reality such as has here been stated .
In many parts of the holy writings we find the pillar to have been undoubtedly a sacred emblem ; as in Isaiah , xix : " In that day shall there be an altar to JEHOVAH , in the midst of the land of Egypt , and a pillar at the border thereof , to Jehovah , and it shall be for a sign , and a witness to the Lord . " Antl this was the especial form m which it pleased God himself to appear , when he dwelt in the pillar that went before his chosen people , as solemnly recorded by Moses . rites of
When , however , p illars were set up to receive the profane idolatrous worship , we find them noticed in Scripture as an abomination , in like manner as their great Baby lonian archetype ; which , being obnoxious to the wrath of God , as such , was destroyed by fire from Heaven , as its blasted and vitrified ruins still remain incontrovertibly to attest . To this peculiar idolatry Scripture refers in the following —Deutxii 3 " Ye shall overthrow their altarsand break
passages : . . : , their pillars , & c . Levit . xxvi , 1 : "Ye shall make ye no idols , nor graven image , neither rear ye up a standing image . " ( Ileb . pillar ) 1 Kings , xiv . 23 ; " For they also built them high places , aud images , ( Heb . standing images ) , on every high hill . " Ezek . xvi . 17 , 24 , 25 ; " Thou madest to thyself images of men , ( Heb . of a male ) , and didst commit , " & c . ( See 31 st verse and following ) . Also Jer . xi . 13 ; " According to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up
altars to that shameful thing , " & c . The same is also alluded to in the striking history recorded in Judges , vi . 32 ; " Therefore he called the idol Jerubbaal , ( or Jerubbesheth , Heb . ) , i . e . let the shameful thing plead . " And a final warning , and most significant counsel , was given to the Israelites by Moses , Deut . iv . 15 , 16 : " Take ye therefore good heed uuto yourselves , for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that JEHOVAH spake unto you in Horeb , out of the midst of the fire : the similitude
lest ye corrupt yourselves , and make you a graven image , of any figure , the likeness of MALE or FEMALE !" Having thus briefly noticed the worship of the LINGAM , or male principle , it remains to show what was the true and real thing signified under the form of the pyramid , triangle , or cone : and with respect to tlie mysteries concealed and represented in the figure of the pyramid , I apprehendthat before MrO'Brien ' s luminous remarks on that subject ,
, . the scientific world in general , were in almost Cimmerian obscurity as to the real and opposite tendency of the worship indicated by edifices erected in that form ; and a remark in the Asiatic Researches , ( vol . ii . 477 ) , that "the pyramids of Egypt , as well as those discovered in Ireland ( pyramids !) and probably too the Tower of Babel , seem to have been intended as nothing more than images of Mahadeo , " shows how confused were the notions of the learned , as to the real character of the