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Tannira, and the Typhon, and by the whole ceremonial of Sivaism, 

 and was perpetuated in the bat-winged devil of Etruria, Japan, and 

 the modern Miltonian orthodoxy. The half philosophical discussion 

 of the evils flesh is heir to has produced Ahrimanism, Manachteism, 

 and Dualism in general, in all ages; but the special symbolik of 

 daemon-worship or diabolism has, nevertheless, always been essen- 

 tially and plainly arkite; as may be seen in the tales of the Genii, 

 the Talmud, the Apocalypse of St. John, the formulte of the necro- 

 mancers, &c. 



22. That many of the names given to the deity, and his attributes, 

 to man and his qualities, to the insignia and the apparatus of church 

 and state, are simple arkisms, and therefore common to many lan- 

 guages and different races of mankind. 



23. That the religious controversies which arose with the gradual 

 development of the religious phantasy, resulting in bloody wars and 

 hereditary feuds, produced a confusion between the titles given to 

 God and the devil, and between good and bad qualities, blessing and 

 cursing, &c. So that the name of God for one tribe became that of 

 a demon to another; and the whole sacred phraseology of one age 

 became a senseless, obscene, diabolical jargon to the age which 

 followed it. Yet the essential and original cabalism of the terms 

 used in their double, opposite, or polar meanings, remained the same. 

 The Hebrew ^in, for example, stood related to the bar as closely 

 after it had come to mean "curse," as when it meant "bless." 

 Sacer was as much s-k-bar in one of its meanings as in the other. 

 The Tabu system of Polynesia is the double result of the same oppo- 

 site relationships still maintained with the original riDH, from which 

 we get Tub, Dove, David, the sacred Thebes, and a hundred other 

 arkisms in every language of the earth. 



24. That there are also certain words in all languages with oppo- 

 site or polar meanings in a strictly j)h^sical sense, deducible, how- 

 ever, directly from the arkite symbolism of antiquity, as exhibited to 

 former eyes; such as, in English alone, Barrow and Burrow, Top 

 and Tub, Pile and Pail, Hill and Hole, Cap and Cup; the difference 

 being marked by the artful use of vowels, according to a general law, 

 which some have supposed organic or psychological, but which can 

 be shown to be, in many instances at least, arkite. 



25. That the first age of this arkite symbolism must be considered 

 more remote than any history, because it preceded the invention of 

 any kind of alphabet, and because its spirit presided over the erec- 

 tion of its earliest monuments. What was the precise nature of the 



