Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-09-17
DESCENDANTS OF EYE
AND OF LILITH.
GEORGE HARVEY SAYS THE FORMER
ARE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS.

That the snake was maze we
fell far less certain. Indeed, there
are many evidences, both external
and internal, though not contained
! in Genesis, to the contrary. Ezra
was an able and conscientious ed
itor, but made errors of judgement,
as other editors have done since, es-
pecially in discriminating between
the essentials and non-essentials OF
q complete narrative. For years
and years thcologians have been
trying in vain to reconcile the Je-
hovistic and Elohistic accounts OF
creation presented in Genesis. We
are convinced that the necessity OF
making spccious and unconyinclne
explanations would meyer have
arisen if Ezra had not edited SC
closely. But his omission, whether
jhcedlessness or design, of any rel
erence whatever to the very impor-
tant part played by Lilith in the
beginning of things seems hardly
pardonable. The materials were at
hand. drawn from the same sources
rs those which he utilized. The
Chaldean inscriptions and the Ara
bic. legends, extant in Babylon
while he WAS engaged upon bis
great work, afford quite simple
solution of the vexatioUs problem
Lilith was created at the same time
and in the same way IS Adam.
MALE and female created he them
and endowed them with equal rights
and privileges. But, runs the
ch onicle, Adam, tactics and donI-
neering, began the first converse
ton by asserting that he was to be
master" The higE-spiritcd lady
Indignantly repudiated this claim OF
superior authority. Whereupon,
Adam insisting, Lilith uttered a
certain spell called schem-hamm-
phorasch, of famous potency IN
Jewish folk lore, obtained wings
thereby and "Aew out of Eden and
out of sight " or as stated subse-
quently in Revelations, not edited
bv Ezra. ITO the woman were
given two wings Of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the wilder
ness" How subsequently Llllth
married Samuel, who illumined a
character not otherwise above re-
preach by treating her as an equal
and left many descendants, some
of whom are even now lombard
! Ing the houses Of parliament, tho
interesting and important, Is not
eernane to q consideration CT the
| relative merits Of snakes. But ev-
en- in that early day it was recog-
nized to be i'll for man to live alone,
50 q second wife was formed, and
this time out Of Adams rib in or
der that there should be no ques-
ton of her subsection.
We perceive, therefore, that Ez-
ra had only to tell the whole story
to harmonic the two seemingly
conflicting Biblical accounts OF Gre
alton. His reasons for eliminating
so material a portion are, as we
have said, conjectural. 1t may be
that he feared to offend the pride
Of his people by letting them know
that their original ancestress was 9
second wife, or he may have been
an anti-suffraged and DESTROYS Of
Withholding from the equal rights
movement. the advantage Of Spirit
ual authority. Accepting the Ara
bic version, which incidentally was
derived from jewish sources by con
vcrts of Mahomet from Cabballsn
and Rabinism, we must conclude
that now, strictly speaking, anti
suffragists should be regarded as
daughters Of Eve and suffragists az
daughters Of Lilith. To both Woul(
accrue certain satisfaction from
such differentiation. Eve seems tt
have been the better woman, bu
credulous and stupid; while Llllth
though disturber of domestic
tranquility and somewhat peremp
tory in manner, was far more hand
some, had beautiful hair and dress
ed like a queen in comparison witt
Eve in her traditionally simple raj
ment The North American Re
, view.
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