The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-02
The Meaning Of the Horse Shoe
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The Meaning Of the Horse Shoe
(Communicated)
Everything now a-days is REDUCED 10 q
scier &C." the Fading scientists explain
everything ou the evolution ba,is The
''sciercs of rel gion" has b en- written and
il is shown that out of Ihose u defin, d fe .rs
OF tie unknown thst we cal superstition,
all religions have b en- evolved By grad
usl pr &C So. At every st &c o. the evolu
ton of religion man his bfen logical, he
hiss reasoned correctly from the meagre
da'a of the day. One Stage in the svoln-
ton o. tn religious idea is call d fetch: sm.
Ii seems foolish TO the educat white
man for an II di or African to carry a
charm lex or charm-stone but if we in
quire snd use the care and patience neces-
sary to understand, We viii! find the stat.
ment log cal from their Standpoint of
scan'y information. From thu Rom IN
Catholic standpoint ii is logical to tie on
the neck of child little bag containing
something blessed by the pope, for warding
of disc IS. and misfortune. The common
est fetch of the educated, or rather of the
whole white race of Europe ard Americs,
is The horse shoe. Ask the sailor, the pilot,
WIN they pail the horse shoe to the bo {
and they snswer, for good luck" The
aesthetic yourg LADY has it in water color :,
In oil, in needlework, in silver, in gold, In
all ether net as conveniently worked. A
certain young lady had horse shoes on
three walls of her room. A tornado struck
the town and the wall bare of horse tho.
WIS badly or scked, The other tire escaped
injury. If she ever h ID the slightest 'ubt
of the power of the horse shoe II then van
ished forever. Bot why is the horse saoe
the symbol of eood lick?
Remember that every fetch, every SYM
b i, every chsrm, b: 8 reason TO il. None
re selected at random. The science Ct re
ligion has found that at one time man, e,-
pecislly In the warm oIie0tal countries,
Was at the stage Of the religious evolution
called "ssx-wurship." Dead matter was 10
him plain enough, but living matter was
an impenetrab.e mystery. Lie, the trans
mission of lie, ard the s.xual function,
bee me to him the sy mbJl of the Giv.r OF
Life. B low this chief symbol were a
:housa and others. The bull became a sacred
symbol cause endowed with great genera
tive force. The spa, FOR a similar reason.
Fish W, re noted for their fecundity, and be-
came a symbol. The chief deity of the
or Pheuici IA, was Dagop, a
.ish-sh-pd one. To the select few these
wee emblems OF the Civ of Life; to tn
multitude the symbol pas The
ped, not the mysterious Creator that il gym
bolzed Babylon WIS probably the chie
city of the sex-worsh;ppers. At one time
the worship was pure-at l. asi in 'horght,
though not 10 reality; but as the fai'h in
that religion de lined, It's professors prac-
ticed its rit S for pleasure alon and the
result was that lhe city of Babylon is
known to this day as the mother Of abomi-
nations" So to-day, as Christian faith be-
comes more and more rare, We find men
and women S ekiug connections with the
churches for certain selfish motives.
Just as we find churches dedicated to the
v rious saints AM pers1 ms of The 1riuity,
% the S x-worshirpers dedica'e a tempe or
r'ty 10 The male principle and another II
he female principle. Babylon means the
gate of the life given" a very significant
name and diff ult TO explain without Of
lending modesly. The city was dedicated
10 the gate or door through which the life |
yiyer enters all nature. The earliest occur |
renee of the arch is in Babylon. But the |
arch was the symbol of the female princi- |
pie throughout all nature as we'll as the Il e |
symbol of every female VII ,tsoever or |
The hanging gard. of Baby |
on, one of the SEVEN wonders OF The world, |
we're enormous artificial tanks or lakes, |
With islands, boats, houses, tries and |
10 Sers; all supported by innumerab!e |
piers aud srch S, the latter sign flying the
emsl- and the former tie male principle |
u nature. In making a thousand forms |
he symbol of the female principle and OF
woman, the Babylonians discovered the
lse of The arch in architecture To the
BsbyIcnian this was a powerful proof of |
he truth of his religion, for as WON n |
,esrs all the race so the arch bears any
possible burden, and the arched vault of
he ky was the supreme symbol OF the
emale principle.
The greatest good luck smong the Sanitic
peoples wss considered to be realized in the
bringing forth of many children. "Chil-
lreu are arrows in the hands of a mighty
nan blessed is he that hath his groin full
If the n" says Solomon, the Sanite king.
The nsme OF the deity who presided over
was, among the Jewish and
,ther brsnches of the Ssnitic race,
Isd. When the patriarch Jacob
,ec.me the father of his seventh
on (by one of his servant girls)
he said call him "God, for troop cometh."
To those upaccustomed to the idea, there is
shock 10 learning for the first time tn It
bis word in Hebrew is pronounced God,
nd that il is the same word that we ordi-
lsrily use in .ming Great First cause.
{ has come through msny changes, coming
o us through our Germanic ancestors as
lott. Cad, or God, was the deity who
ave many children, which was the best
God luck. This digs emblem was The ;,
rch, indicative of the female. Here breaks