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The Sacred Fire: Illustrations

The Sacred Fire, by B.Z. Goldberg, [1930] | | PAGE | | Phallic symbols in ancient art | 8 | | Primitive man's crude portrayal of the creative force | 14 | | Sex pervaded the art of Old Anthropology Adam | 18 | | An Egyptian phallic altar | 22 | | A demon of love | 31 | | Man's first church; his best-loved god | 35 | | From an old Egyptian urn | 36 | | Venus and Cupid fulfilling their mission of love | 40 | | A Phallic amulet | 42 | | Brahma created himself double | 44 | | At the altar of Priapus | 48 | | When gods made merry | 56 | | A Hindu goddess offering a lingam | 66 | | A Hindu god in copulation | 75 | | Venus in a phallic shrine | 80 | | Siva as the Hermaphroditic God | 89 | | In the Temple of Siva | 92 | | Siva leaning on the lingam | 94 | | The Persian Triad | 100 | | The Serpent the Sacred Image of the Solo-Phallic Cult | 107 | | Serpent worship in early Christian art | 109 | | A Serpent god | 113 | | Kwan-yin, the Oriental Queen of Heaven | 116 | | Maya, the Hindu goddess | 120 | | An Oriental divinity | 122 | | p. xiv | | | | PAGE | | The Sheela-na-gig | 124 | | An early Priapic statue | 129 | | As the god of love developed | 131 | | The Scandinavian tree of life | 135 | | At a Baalic festival | 153 | | Anubis as the guardian of the Dead | 158 | | Priestesses of Aphrodite | 163 | | Hers was the life of an actress | 170 | | Lamenting for Attis | 176 | | Aphrodite, Goddess of Love | 178 | | Dionysos on his phallic throne | 180 | | Dionysia | 182 | | The marriage of Psyche and Eros | 184 | | The eternal Sakti | 190 | | A female demon in ancient India | 192 | | Devaki seated on a lotus flower | 193 | | Jehovah, God of Battles | 201 | | A sacrificial altar | 209 | | Warding off the unclean spirits | 213 | | The universe a dualism seeking unity | 220 | | An old conception of the Cherubim | 226 | | Symbols in early Christian art | 233 | | Thecla | 242 | | Cave church of the Apocalypse in Patmos | 245 | | Spiritual lovers | 248 | | The marriage of St. Catherine | 253 | | St. Teresa | 256 | | The Church as the Bride of Christ | 260 | | Christian symbolism in the Catacombs | 266 | | Medieval Hell | 268 | | p. xv | | | | PAGE | | Jesus in the womb of the Virgin | 270 | | The Spirit of God | 272 | | A Mohammedan fish nymph | 282 | | The Black Stone | 288 | | A Negro god | 294 | | The Virgin shares her altar with Legba | 311 | | The Christian God worshipped in Voodoo fashion | 313 | | Images of the Voodoo gods | 314 | | The Spirit of God | 315 | | A symbol of life | 325 | | A Gnostic gem | 329 | | Symbols of fertility | 335 | | The Evil Spirit tempting the soul of a pagan idol | 339 | | When the devil was a god | 341 | | Kali, lover of death | 356 |