Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day ...Mental Health Press, 1958 - 299 pages |
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Page 57
... practice of refusing to admit , as priests of God , any but those in full possession of the outward symbols of sexual virility . The old law was formulated in the days of Moses , thus : " He that is wounded in the stones , or hath his ...
... practice of refusing to admit , as priests of God , any but those in full possession of the outward symbols of sexual virility . The old law was formulated in the days of Moses , thus : " He that is wounded in the stones , or hath his ...
Page 60
... practice was due of sleeping in the temples and having intercourse with the god , a practice to which I shall have occasion to refer when dealing with various phal- lic ceremonies in later chapters . In some instances the part of the ...
... practice was due of sleeping in the temples and having intercourse with the god , a practice to which I shall have occasion to refer when dealing with various phal- lic ceremonies in later chapters . In some instances the part of the ...
Page 148
... practice of putting the hand under another's thigh , it seems plain that it grew out of the special sacredness attaching to the gen- erative organ ; fruitfulness being of specially divine origin , the organ of it in man could by the ...
... practice of putting the hand under another's thigh , it seems plain that it grew out of the special sacredness attaching to the gen- erative organ ; fruitfulness being of specially divine origin , the organ of it in man could by the ...
Contents
CHAP | 3 |
SUN MOON AND NATURE WORSHIP | 13 |
THE BIRTH OF PHALLICISM | 40 |
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