[46:7] See Illustrations in Dr. Inman's Pagan and Christian Symbolism. [46:8] See Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. i. pp. 543, 544. [47:1] Bible for Learners, vol. i. pp. 177, 178, 317, 321, 322. [47:2] Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 356. [47:3] Ibid. [47:4] We read in Bell's "Pantheon of the Gods and Demi-Gods of Antiquity," under the head of BAELYLION, BAELYLIA or BAETYLOS, that they are "_Anointed Stones_, worshiped among the Greeks, Phrygians, and other nations of the East;" that "these Baetylia were greatly venerated by the ancient Heathen, many of their idols being no other;" and that, "in reality no sort of idol was more common in the East, than that of oblong stones _erected_, and hence termed by the Greeks _pillars_." The Rev. Geo. W. Cox, in his Aryan Mythology (vol. ii. p. 113), says: "The erection of these stone columns or pillars, the forms of which in most cases tell their own story, are common throughout the East, some of the most elaborate being found near Ghizni." And Mr. Wake (Phallism in Ancient Religions, p. 60), says: "Kiyun, or Kivan, the name of the deity said by Amos (v. 26), to have been worshiped in the wilderness by the Hebrews, signifies GOD OF THE PILLAR." [47:5] We find that there was nothing gross or immoral in the worship of the male and female generative organs among the ancients, when the subject is properly understood. Being the most intimately connected with the reproduction of life on earth, the _Linga_ became the symbol under which the _Sun_, invoked with a thousand names, has been worshiped throughout the world _as the restorer of the powers of nature_ after the long sleep or death of winter. But if the _Linga_ is the Sun-god in his majesty, the _Yoni_ is the earth who yields her fruit under his fertilizing warmth. The _Phallic tree_ is introduced into the narrative of the book of Genesis: but it is here called a tree, not of life, but of the knowledge of good and evil, that knowledge which dawns in the mind with the first consciousness of difference between man and woman. In contrast with this tree of carnal indulgence, tending to death, is the tree of life, denoting the higher existence for which man was designed, and which would bring with it the happiness and the freedom of the children of God. In the brazen serpent of the Pentateuch, the two emblems of the _cross_ and _serpent_, the quiescent and energising Phallos, are united. (See Cox: Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. pp. 113, 116, 118.) [47:6] See Cox: Aryan Mytho., ii. 112, 113. CHAPTER VI. THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, AND PASSAGE THROUGH THE RED SEA.