Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

we get the word “erotic” and Venus was also considered to be the Roman goddess of erotic love. In fact, the word “venereal disease” was derived from the name “Venus.” Also, the bow and arrow that Cupid carries has a sexual connotation. In A Dictionary of Symbols we are told that the bow and arrow “stand for the sun’s energy, its rays and its fertilizing and purifying powers. The symbolism of the crossbow is similar, but more complex, including, as it does, the ‘conjunction’ of the bow and its stock.”

Cupid is not some adorable, little, mischievous god who makes couples fall in love. He is a god (really a demon) of vulgarity and indecency—but he is presented in a cute way with such an innocent-looking disguise. Our society is so inundated and saturated with paganism. It has become so common place that we don’t even notice it any more. We just accept it as part of life not realizing how we must be offending God by using and propagating pagan symbolism and idolizing debauched, perverted, and evil pagan gods and goddesses. “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” (James 3:17). Two mythological creatures that are winged are the sphinx and the griffin.