Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

In fact, in Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues, we find that the lingam (the male sex organ) was an upright pillar. H. L. Haywood, another Mason, states: “In some cases these crude rock pillars were thought to be the abodes of gods or demons; in others, homes of the ghosts; and often as symbols of sex. Of the last-named usage one writer has said that ‘pillars of stone, when associated with worship, have been from time immemorial regarded as symbols of the active and passive, the generative and fecundating principles.’ In Egypt, Horus and Sut [Set] were regarded as two living pillars, twin builders and supporters of the heavens....” Masonic author, Rollin Blackmer, elaborates: “The symbolism regarding solar worship indicated by the point within the circle has many variations, but one of the most primitive and natural was that the Sun was to be regarded as the male generative power of nature. To the ancient philosopher the origin and creation of life led to the contemplation of only one process, the generative act. The Sun God was certainly the generator of life, light and heat, the male principle, and this was symbolically represented by the Phallus or Lingam, which was some picture, more or less veiled, of the human male generative organ. The most frequent illustration was of a pillar set up in the center of a circle. The circle just as distinctively represented the earth or female principle. The Sun was the Great Father. Under his benign influence all nature germinated, and the earth was the Universal Mother, in whose ample womb all these germs grew to maturity.” In Our Phallic Heritage we are told that “All pillars or columns originally had a phallic significance, and were therefore considered sacred.” Pan, the goat god and god of sensuality, was often represented as an obelisk.