Sexual Symbology

The same people who are concerned with the masonic obelisks, have now turned their attention to the spires and steeples on churches, suggesting that they might be a pagan remnant that needs to be removed as idolatrous. They might be suprised to know that the Puritains led a campaign to remove crosses some time ago. The cross, which in the form of the letter T is the least explicit representation of the male organs of generation, anciently represented the generative power of light, the essence of God. Solar phallic.

From Knight Payne:

"From the ancient obeliscs came the spires and pinacles with which our churches are still decorated, so many ages after their meanings have been forgotten. Happily for the beauty of these edifices, it was forgotten, otherwise the reformers of the last century would have destroyed them, as they did the crosses and images; for they might with equal propriety have been announced heathenish and profane."

Stirling , in "The Canon"p182 quotes Puritains speaking of crosses as offensive symbols.

Jenning suggests that all religions arose out of phallicism (in the broadest sense), the worship of the forces of creation.

Stirling says that the dimensions of the cathedrals derived from the Vesica Piscis, the female compliment of the cross. The vesica results from overlapping two identical circles such that the center of each lies on the circumference of the other. Adding a few lines produces the cross, and the rhombus (used interchangeably with the vesica).

The vesica piscis crops up a lot in sacred architecture, but perhaps its most obvious manifestation is the Gothic arch, bastion of so many spiritual buildings.

The vesica piscis seems to have determined the main proportion of a cathedral plan- the interior length and width across the transepts for instance, and it appears as an aureole around the figure of Christ in early representations.

Less obvious manifestations of the vesica are in the floor plans of many churches and chapels where the vesica defines the dimensions of the rectangular layout.

The Evil Eye

Ironically, Vesica piscis was called evil eye, and in Rome the phallus was the most common amulet worn by children to avert the evil eye:

If we rotate the vesica and trim a few lines, we get this fish image used by Christians.

Adding a circle yields an eye. Adding another circle yields the CBS logo.

Or how about this one:

The union of male and female organs is symbolized in witchcraft as a point within a circle, and also as two triangles uniting to make a Hexagram better known today as the "Star of David."

This begs the question, if witches define the sexual union symbolically one way and the Hebrews another, how is it that Christians symbolize it?

While the most subtil is the vesica piscis, perhaps the most explicit forms are the Celtic Cross (with circle, above), where the cross is masculine and the circle is feminine, and the cross in the crown (below).

Masons reverse the symbolism with the compass and square. Note that the cross is 4 L-shaped squares. The number four is associated with the earth, matter, the four elements, the four winds and directions etc, and has been female. The compass, for drawing circles is seen as a masculine symbol associated with the heavens.

Compass and square image, looks like hexagram, yab yum.

Taj Mahal

Dual symbolism, phallic door way.