Phallicism, Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian: Its Connexion With the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics and Its Foundation in Buddhism, With an Essay on Mystic Anatomy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Ritchie, David George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440072337 ISBN 13: 9781440072338

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2010

Synopsis

INTRODUCTION. All these original facts and theories, as applicable to general religion, were first brought forward by the author in a work entitled, " The Indian Religions; or, Results of the Mysterious Buddhism," published in the early part of the year 1858. Subsequently to the appearance of that book several other writers, impressed by its importance, hitherto unsuspected, took up and enlarged upon the details referring to this subject, without, however, touching, or seeming to be even aware of, the spirit and inner meaning of the matters which they so confidently and ignorantly handled, with, however, all the innocent good faith in the world. This exploration into the modern day refers to the recurrence of the introduction into history of the " Phallic Theory," as supplying the necessarily mystic groundwork of all religion- nay, furnishing altogether the reasons for religion. Conspicuous among these writers, subsequent in time to the production of the work above referred to, is

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; PAGE; IntroductionIx; Chapter I-Definitions and Distinctions leading up to the verities of; Phallicism1; Chapter II-The History of the Phallic "Symbol-Structures;" their Origin, Genealogy, and Variety through the succession of the his-torico-religions ages5; Chapter III-The Story of the Classes of the Phalli 13; Chapter IV-Celestial or Theosophical Doctrine of the Unsexual Transcendental Phallicism 41; Chapter V-The Mysteries of the Phallus ; its idealised Gnostic, Rosi-; crucian or Christian renderings · 5°; Chapter VI-Rites and Ceremonies of the Indian Phallic Worship, and; its connexion with general religious meanings 56; Chapter VII- Hebrew Phallicism64; Chatter VIII-^The Rosicrucian and Gnostic Meanings of the Obelisks,; Pyramids, and Phallic Monuments of the Peoples of Antiquity 70; Chapter IX-The Phalli and Ophiologicil Priapic Monuments typical of " The Fall"; Chapter X-Priapic Illustrations ; Cha

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1440072337
• ISBN 13: 9781440072338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340