prove that the Deity here represented is composed only of the
masculine attributes, we are given to understand that God was
really "speaking to himself," and that in his divine cogitations
excessive modesty dictated the "polite form of speech"; he did
not, therefore, say exactly what he meant, or at least did not
mean precisely what he said. We have to bear in mind, however,
that as man had not at that time been created, if there were no
female element present, this excess of politeness on the part of
the "Lord" was wholly lost. Surely, in a matter involving such
an enormous stretch of power as the creation of man independently
of the female energy, we would scarcely expect to find the high
and mighty male potentate which was subsequently worshipped as
the Lord of the Israelites laying aside his usual "I the Lord,"
simply out of deference to the animals.

In Christian countries, during the past eighteen hundred years,
the greatest care has been exercised to conceal the fact that
sun-worship underlies all forms of religion, and under Protestant
Christianity no pains has been spared in eliminating the female
element from the god-idea; hence the ignorance which prevails at
the present time in relation to the fact that the Creator once
comprehended the forces of Nature, which by an older race were
worshipped as female.



CHAPTER IV.

THE DUAL GOD OF THE ANCIENTS A TRINITY ALSO.