Deity--the dual reproductive energy throughout Nature. The
"figure becomes the emblem of divinity and power."[28]

[28] Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, vol. i., p. 311.


Mithras--the Savior, the great Persian Deity which was worshipped
as the "Preserver," was both female and male. Among the
representations of this divinity which appear in the Townley
collection in the British Museum, is one in which it is figured
in its female character, in the act of killing the bull. The
Divinity Baal was both female and male. The God of the Jews in
an early stage of their career was called Baal. The oriental
Ormuzd was also dual or androgynous.

Orpheus teaches that the divine nature is both female and male.
According to Proclus, Jupiter was an immortal maid, "the Queen of
Heaven, and Mother of the Gods." All things were contained
within the womb of Jupiter. This Virgin within whom was embodied
the male principle "gave light and life to Eve." She was the
life-giving, energizing power in Nature, and was identical with
Aleim, Om, Astarte, and others. The Goddess Esta, or Vesta, or
Hestia, whom Plato calls the "soul of the body of the universe,"
is believed by Beverly and others to be the Self-Existent, the
Great "She that Is" of the Hindoos, whose significance is
identical with the Cushite or Phoenician Deity, Aleim.

According to Marco Polo, the Chinese had but one supreme God of
whom they had no image, and to whom they prayed for only two
things--"a sound mind in a sound body." They had, however, a