E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39414-h.htm or 39414-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39414/pg39414-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39414/39414-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/masculinecrossor00lond Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. The original text contains two symbols that are represented in this version as [symbol]. THE MASCULINE CROSS. [Illustration: _God Indra Nailed to a Cross._] [Illustration: _Buddhist Cross._] [Illustration: _Cross Common on Ancient Assyrian Monuments._] [Illustration: _Ancient Heathen,--Mexican Cross._] THE MASCULINE CROSS Or A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices. Privately Printed 1904. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. THE CROSS 1 CHAPTER II. THE CROSS (Continued) 23 CHAPTER III. THE DOCTRINE OF A SACRED TRIAD 42 CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTRINE OF A SACRED TRIAD (Continued) 63 CHAPTER V. THE GOLDEN CALF OF AARON 79 CHAPTER VI. CIRCUMCISION 91 CHAPTER VII. ANDROGYNOUS DEITIES, SEX WORSHIP, &C. 100 INTRODUCTORY.