dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of thé 
Nile or the Euphrates, connectée! the South with life-withering 
heat? and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest. 
Even in the legend of Hiram, it is at high noon that he is stricken 
down and slain. Capricornus is moreover the sign which the Sun 
enters when he reaches his extreme Southern déclination at the 
Winter Solstice, the season of the death of végétation, for the folk 
of the Northern hemisphere. This gave them a second cause for 
cursing the South. A third; the tyranny of hot, dry, poisonous 
windsj the menace of deserts or océans dreadful because mysterious 
and impassable; these also were connected in their minds with the 
South. But to us, aw^are of astronomical facts, this antagonism to 
the South is a silly superstition which the accidents of their local 
conditions suggested to our animistic ancestors. We see no enmitv 
between Right and Left, Up and Down, and similar pairs of 
opposites. These antithèses are real only as a statement of 
relation; they are the conventions of an arbitrary device for 
representing our icleas in a pluralistic symbolism based on duality. 
“Good” must be defined in terms of human ideals and instincts. 
“East” has no meaning except with reference to the earth’s internai 
aff airs ; as an absolute direction in space it changes a degree every 
four minutes. “Up” is the same for no two men, unless one 
chance to be in the line joining the other with the centre of the 
earth. “Hard” is the private opinion of our muscles. “True” is 
an utterly unintelligible epithet which has proved refractory to 
the analysis of our ablest philosophers. 
We hâve therefore no scruple in restoring the “devil-worship” 
of such ideas as those which the laws of sound, and the phenomena 
of speech and hearing, compel us to connect with the group of 
“Gods” whose names are based upon ShT or D, vocalized by the 
free breath A. For these Names imply the qualifies of courage, 
frankness, energy, pride, power and triumph; they are the words 
which express the créative and paternal will. 
Thus “the Devil” is Capricornus, the Goat who leaps upon 
the loftiest mountains, the Godhead which, if it become manifest 
in man, makes him Aegipan, the Ail. 
The Sun enters this sign when he turns to renew the year in 
the North. He is also the vowel O, proper to roar, to boom, and 
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