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The Phallus
Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power
By: Alain Daniélou

Worship of the phallus as a symbol of creative energy has been central to virtually every world culture and strong traditions of phallic art exist throughout India, Egypt, Greece and Northern Europe. This most fundamental of symbols is re-examined by Alain Daniélou to unveil the religious impulse underlying art that at first seems purely erotic. It is in this capacity as a source of bliss and transcendence that the phallus has its most powerful role in human symbolism. Our fertility symbols and sexuality remain our link to the divine. Illustrated with many classic examples of phallic art. (117 pages)