by Sanger Brown II, M.D.
originally published in 1922
paperback; 150 pages
This fascinating book shows that for the past six thousand years, men have deified those aspects of nature which have fulfilled the two most basic human needs of physical sustenance and procreation. From these universal impulses have arisen the phallic and sun-worshiping cults of ancient Babylon and Egypt, the hero myths of classical Greece and Rome, and the observance of many of the religious customs and “holy days” of modern society. Even much of the familiar symbolism and architecture of so-called Western civilization have their origin in the pagan veneration of nature. Not a Christian himself, the author unintentionally verifies the Bible’s declaration that, without the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, fallen man, from the basest savage to the loftiest intellectual, will invariably substitute the worship of the creation for that of the Creator.
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