Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

“But since union of the sexes is necessary to produce offspring, both sexes were represented in most religions. In the crudest forms of worship, representations of the genitalia of both sexes, or of the sex organs in union, were worshiped. Such was the worship of the phallus-kteis in Greece and Egypt, the lingam-yoni in India, the massebasher of Syria, the yoseki-inseki in Japan, the YANG-YIN in China, and the baal-peor of the Canaanites in the Bible.” Masonic author, George Oliver, states: “Thus the monad and duad were the phallus and kteis of the Greeks, the lingam and yoni of the Hindoos (sic), the woden and friga of the Goths, and YANG AND YIN of the Chinese, and indeed, of the creative and destructive powers of every country under Heaven.” This thought is reiterated in Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization: “Lingam and yoni, Shiva and his goddess, symbolize the antagonistic yet co operating forces of the sexes. Their Sacred Marriage (Greek: hieros-gamos ) is multifariously figured in the various traditions of world mythology. They are the archetypal parents, Father and Mother of the World, themselves the first-born of the pairs of opposites, first bifurcation of the primal, cosmogonic reality, now reunited in productive harmony. Under the form of Father Heaven and Mother Earth they were known to the Greeks as Zeus and Hera, Uranos and Gaia, to the Chinese as T’ien and Ti, YANG AND YIN.” [Italics in the original; Boldface and caps added] One catalog that sells statues of gods and goddesses as well as many other occultic items states: