We have observed that the symbol of the universe was an egg. The
egg was also the symbol of the earth and of the ark, which meant
universal womanhood. From the mundane egg the triplicated Deity
sprang. There can be little doubt at the present time that Adam,
Noah, Menu, Osiris, and Dionysos all represent the fructifying
power of the sun. In process of time they each came to figure as
male reproductive energy, and during certain periods of the
earth's history they have each in turn been worshipped as the
Deity. That not only the ark was female, but that the god
element or reproductive principle within the ark was both female
and male, is a fact which has been lost sight of during the
historic period, or during those ages of the world in which the
attempt has been made to prove Nature motherless.

All the germs and living creatures which were within the ark, and
which were to reanimate the earth, were in pairs, females and
males; and, besides, the Dove (female), the emblem of peace, was
also present. Even Noah himself was produced from an egg, which,
as we have seen, is the symbol of Venus, or universal womanhood.
In after ages the female principle was not mentioned, but, on the
contrary, was concealed beneath convenient symbols; and as the
philosophical ideas underlying natural religion were lost or
forgotten, and mankind had become too ignorant to perceive that a
dual force, female and male which was also a Trinity, pervades
Nature, the notion came gradually to prevail that the creative
agency, which is spirit, is altogether male. Hence the
formulation of the inconceivable doctrine of a Trinity composed
of a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.