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"In religious rites the moon served a dual purpose. Personified as a female goddess for exoteric purposes, or as a male god in allegory and symbol, in occult philosophy our satellite was regarded as a sexless Potency to be well studied, because it was to be dreaded.   With the initiated Aryans, Chaldeans, Greeks and [...]

"The whole pantheon of the lunar gods and goddesses, Nephthys or Neith, Proserpina, Mylitta, Cybele, Isis, Astarte, Venus, and Hecate, on the one hand, and Apollo, Dionysius, Adonis, Bacchus, Osiris, Atys, Thammuz, ect., etc., on the other, all show on the face of their names and titles - those of "Sons" and "Husbands" of their [...]

"No symbol - the sun included - was more complex in its manifold meanings than the lunar symbol.   The sex was, of course, dual. With some it was male, e.g., the Hindu "King Soma", and the Chaldean Sin; with other nations it was female, the beauteous goddess Diana-Luna, Eileithyia, Lucina.   But, we are [...]

"It is worth the trouble of presenting in this work a bird-eye's view of the origin and development of the lunar myth and worship in historical antiquity, on our side of the globe.   Whether the Egyptian or the Hindu religious philosophy is the more ancient - and the Secret Doctrine says it is the [...]