tendency of the erotic principle to ally itself with high religious excitement and enthusiasm. Further along he says that "some of the pupils of Marie de l'Incarnation, also, had mystical marriages with Christ; and the impassioned rhapsodies of one of them being overheard, she nearly lost her character, as it was thought that she was apostrophizing an earthly lover."[98] [95] Krafft-Ebing: _op. cit. ante._, p. 8, footnote. [96] _Ibid._ [97] Francis Parkman: _The Jesuits in North America_, p. 175. "_O amour, quand vous embrasserai-je? N'avez vous point pitie de moi dans le tourment que je souffre? Hélas! mon amour, ma beauté, ma vie! au lieu de me guerir, vous vous plaisez à mes maux. Venez donc que je vous embrasse et je meure entre vos bras sacres._" Journal de Marie de l'Incarnation. [98] Francis Parkman: _The Jesuits in North America_, p. 176. The instances of religio-sexual outbursts in nuns and Roman Catholic female devotees who lead celibate lives are very numerous; I will, however, call attention to but one other: St. Veronica was so much in love with the divine lion that she took a young lion to bed with her, fondled and kissed it, and allowed it to suck her breasts.[99] Throughout sacred literature, beginning with the Bible itself, religio-sexual feeling is very much _en evidence_. Hosea married a prostitute because--so he declared--God commanded him so to do. If Solomon's beautiful song is typical of the Church and the Christ (as some theologians teach), then it is an unmistakable instance of religio-sexual feeling; religious emotion and sexual desire walk hand in hand through the measures of this impassioned verse. Circumcision, now eminently a religious ceremony, was, unquestionably, a sexual fetich and a phallic rite, which has been handed down from antiquity, when all the world were phallic worshipers! The very pillars set up by the patriarchs in commemoration of certain events were but rude images of the phallus, while not a few of the mysteries of the Holy of Holies itself were but vestiges of Chaldean and Egyptian genital worship![AF] [99] Friedreich: _Psychologie_, p. 389. [AF] A recent writer, Dr. Lydston, expresses surprise that the brothel should occupy such a prominent place in the ancient chronicles. When the universality and high honor of phallic worship is taken into consideration, the entertainment of the "Captain of the Host" in a brothel ceases to be a matter or cause for surprise; the prominence given such entertainment by the ancient historians is perfectly natural and to be expected. _Compare_ Lydston: _The Diseases of Society_, p. 305.