For the journalist by the same name see British journalism scandals. For the fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, see Forlong the Fat
He was born at Springhall in Lanarkshire on 6 November 1824, the third son of William Forlong of Erines and his wife, who was the eldest daughter of General Gordon Cumming Skene of Dyce in Aberdeenshire.[3]
He joined the Indian Army in 1843 and fought in the Mahratha Campaign of 1845-46. He later filled various posts including that of Secretary and Chief Engineer to the government of Oudh. In 1858/59 he travelled extensively in Egypt, Syria and the Middle East.
Exposure to Indian religions while doing missionary work led him to abandon his Christian faith, and into some very heterodox ideas about religious origins, including those of the ancient Hebrews. These found expression in his massive work of comparative religion, Rivers of Life,[4] with its markedly sexual, some would say blasphemous,[5] interpretation of religious rites and symbolism.
He retired from the army in 1876 and then concentrated on writing, mainly on the comparison of various religions. His huge opus "Rivers of Life" was followed by "Faiths of Man: A Cyclopaedia of Religions" which was published posthumously in 1906.
He died at home, 11 Douglas Crescent in Edinburgh's West End[7] on 29 March 1904.[8] He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh[9] with his wife Lavinia ("Nina") Reddie. The grave lies in the northern Victorian extension attaching the original cemetery on one of the north-south paths.
Rivers of Lifeedit
The grave of Major General James Forlong, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
"...the shower of phallicism that burst upon the reading public in the shape of General Forlong's Rivers of Life".[10]
The book is in two large volumes together with a huge coloured Chronological Chart of the Religions of the World representing different currents:
All of these originated very early in mankind's history, and form streams flowing down the millennia and separating and commingling into the major religions.
The Garden of Eden story was simply that of human generation. Eve bruised the serpent's head and he bruised what is euphemistically called her heel.
The Ark of the Covenant represented a female sex organ or yoni, and the two stones it contained signified testicles.
The early Jews practiced a most crude and extreme form of phallic worship. Elohim was the same as Baal and their worship was lingamist, the Yahweh worshiping revolt against it (spearheaded by the prophets) was a pro-yoni movement, like Indian Shaktism.
Christian churches are constructed on phallic principles. All these ideas are backed up with great erudition and parallels from antiquity, India and the far east.
Selected publicationsedit
The Chart
Rivers of Life (Volume 1, Volume 2, 1883)
Through what Historical Channels did Buddhism Influence Early Christianity? (Open Court, 1887)
Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions: Embracing All the Religions of Asia (1897)
Faiths of Man: Cyclopaedia of Religions (3 volumes, 1906)
The numerous tales of holy trees groves and gardens repeated everywhere and in every possible form justify me in my belief that Tree Worship was first known and after it came Lingam or Phallic, with of course the female form A-dama.[11]
He [the Serpent] is the special Phallic symbol which veils the actual God and therefore do we find him the constant early attendant upon Priapus or Lingam, which I regard as the second religion of the world.[12]
Phallic Worship, the second if not the first of man's faiths.[13]
James G. R. Forlong Fundedit
The Royal Asiatic Society's James G.R. Forlong Fund derives from his bequest (in a will dated 1901). The fund was registered as a charity in 1962, to be used "for the "encouragement of the study of the religions, history, character, languages and customs of Eastern races" and within this definition to be devoted to the funding of scholarships and the publication of short works on these subjects.[14][15]
Publications in the James G. Forlong Fund Series include:
Vol.29 - Corpus of early Tibetan inscriptions, by Hugh Richardson (1985), ISBN978-09-47-59300-1
Vol.28 - Study of the spoken Arabic of Baskinta, by Farida Abu-Haidar (1979), ISBN978-90-04-05948-1
Vol.27 - Guide to the romanization of Burmese, by John Okell (1971), ISBN978-90-04-04438-8
Vol.26 - Two Prakrit versions of the Manipati-Carita, by Williams (1959), ISBN978-90-04-04436-4
Vol.25 - A Bibliography of Arms and Armour in Islam, by Keppel Archibald Cameron (1956)
Vol.24 - Siva-Nana Bodham : a manual of Saiva religious doctrine, by Meykaṇṭatēvar, translated from the Tamil with synopsis exposition by Gordon Matthews (1948)
Vol.23 - Muslim Theology, by Arthur Stanley Tritton (1947)
Vol.22 - Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marvazī on China, the Turks, and India, by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marwazī, tr. and commentary by Vladimir Minorsky (1942)
Vol.21 - Sogdica, by Walter Bruno Henning (1940)
Vol.20 - A Translation of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan, by Thomas Burrow (1940)
Vol.19 - A Dictionary of the Language of Bugotu, Santa Isabel Island, Solomon Islands, by Walter George Ivens (1940)
Vol.18 - Marriage in Early Islam, by Gertrude Henrietta Stern (1939)
Vol.17 - Three Persian Dialects, by Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton (1938)
Vol.16 - The Pronunciation of Kashmiri, by Thomas Grahame Bailey (1937)
Vol.15 - Balti Grammar, by Alfred Frank Charles Read (1934)
Vol.14 - Study of the Gujarati language in the 16th century, by Trimbaklal Nandikeshwar Dave (1935), ISBN978-90-04-04434-0
Vol.13 - An Introduction to Colloquial Bengali, by Walter Sutton Page (1934)
Vol.12 - The Phonetic System of Ancient Japanese, by Saburo Yoshitake (1934)
Vol.11 - Dialogues in the Eastern Turki dialect on subjects of interest to travellers, by Ross (1934), ISBN978-90-04-04432-6
Vol.10 - Ta'rikh-i-Jahan-gushay of Juwayni (vol.3), by Wahid-ul-Mulk, intro by Edward Denison Ross (1931)
Vol.8 - The Elements of Japanese Writing, by Noel Everard Isemonger (1929)
Vol.7 - Critical studies in the phonetic observations of Indian grammarians (1929)
Vol.6 - Falakī-i-Shirwānī: his times, life, and works, by Hasan Hādī (1929), ISBN978-90-04-04429-6
Vol.5 - The Milindapañho: being dialogues between King Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nāgasena. The Pali text, ed. Vilhelm Trenckner, index by C.J. Rylands ... and an index of Gāthās by Caroline A.F. Rhys Davids (1928)
Vol.4 - Taʾríkh-i Fakhruʾd d-Dín Mubáraksháh : being the historical introduction to the Book of Genealogies of Fakhruʾd-Dín Mubáraksháh Marvar-rúdí, completed in A.D. 1206 / edited from a unique manuscript by E. Denison Ross, by Fakhr ul-Dīn Mubārakshāh (1927)
Vol.3 - Moslem Architecture, 623 to 1516. Some causes and consequences, by Ernest Tatham Richmond (1926)
Vol.2 - The Arab Conquests in Central Asia, by Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1923)
Vol.1 - The Primitive Culture of India, by Thomas Callan Hodson (1922)
Notes and referencesedit
^Sources according to ancestry.com: "Ian Patterson's printouts, given to Robin; IGI"
^T. Apiryon. "Forlong dux". The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius.
^Conder, C. R (1904). "Major-General Forlong, M.R.A.S". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 36 (3): 517–523. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00032202. JSTOR 25208675.
^Rivers of life : Vols 1 and 2. or sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments. B. Quaritch: London; Edinburgh, printed, 1883.
^See for example an orthodox view on this type of interpretation: "Such an interpretation of the Ark of the Covenant constitutes the highest blasphemy, and yet is precisely the perverted view which Antichrist will hold toward the Ark of the restored Jewish Covenant." Ralph Woodrow: Babylon Mystery Religion, Evangelistic Association Inc, Palm Springs 1966
^Gould, Frederick James. (1929). The Pioneers of Johnson's Court: A History of the Rationalist Press Association From 1899 Onwards. Watts. p. 28
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For the journalist by the same name see British journalism scandals For the fictional character in J R R Tolkien s legendarium see Forlong the Fat James George Roche Forlong 6 November 1824 29 March 1904 1 was a Major General of the Indian Army who trained as a civil engineer in Scotland and England He was renowned for his road building skills through the jungles of India and Burma 2 and for his studies on comparative religion Forlong in an 18th century costume Contents 1 Life 2 Rivers of Life 3 Some Themes 4 Selected publications 5 Quotes 6 James G R Forlong Fund 7 Notes and references 8 External linksLife editHe was born at Springhall in Lanarkshire on 6 November 1824 the third son of William Forlong of Erines and his wife who was the eldest daughter of General Gordon Cumming Skene of Dyce in Aberdeenshire 3 He joined the Indian Army in 1843 and fought in the Mahratha Campaign of 1845 46 He later filled various posts including that of Secretary and Chief Engineer to the government of Oudh In 1858 59 he travelled extensively in Egypt Syria and the Middle East Exposure to Indian religions while doing missionary work led him to abandon his Christian faith and into some very heterodox ideas about religious origins including those of the ancient Hebrews These found expression in his massive work of comparative religion Rivers of Life 4 with its markedly sexual some would say blasphemous 5 interpretation of religious rites and symbolism He retired from the army in 1876 and then concentrated on writing mainly on the comparison of various religions His huge opus Rivers of Life was followed by Faiths of Man A Cyclopaedia of Religions which was published posthumously in 1906 Forlong was a rationalist He was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association 6 to which he left a sum of money in his will He died at home 11 Douglas Crescent in Edinburgh s West End 7 on 29 March 1904 8 He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh 9 with his wife Lavinia Nina Reddie The grave lies in the northern Victorian extension attaching the original cemetery on one of the north south paths Rivers of Life edit nbsp The grave of Major General James Forlong Dean Cemetery Edinburgh the shower of phallicism that burst upon the reading public in the shape of General Forlong sRivers of Life 10 The book is in two large volumes together with a huge coloured Chronological Chart of the Religions of the World representing different currents Tree Worship Phallic Worship Serpent Worship Fire Worship Sun Worship Ancestor Worship All of these originated very early in mankind s history and form streams flowing down the millennia and separating and commingling into the major religions Some Themes editLike Payne Knight D Hancarville and Hargrave Jennings he is of the phallicist school of religious anthropology Phallic worship had two wings the right hand or lingam and the left hand path of the yoni worshipers The Garden of Eden story was simply that of human generation Eve bruised the serpent s head and he bruised what is euphemistically called her heel The Ark of the Covenant represented a female sex organ or yoni and the two stones it contained signified testicles The early Jews practiced a most crude and extreme form of phallic worship Elohim was the same as Baal and their worship was lingamist the Yahweh worshiping revolt against it spearheaded by the prophets was a pro yoni movement like Indian Shaktism Christian churches are constructed on phallic principles All these ideas are backed up with great erudition and parallels from antiquity India and the far east Selected publications edit nbsp The Chart Rivers of Life Volume 1 Volume 2 1883 Through what Historical Channels did Buddhism Influence Early Christianity Open Court 1887 Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions Embracing All the Religions of Asia 1897 Faiths of Man Cyclopaedia of Religions 3 volumes 1906 Jainism and Buddhism 1 Quotes editThe numerous tales of holy trees groves and gardens repeated everywhere and in every possible form justify me in my belief that Tree Worship was first known and after it came Lingam or Phallic with of course the female form A dama 11 He the Serpent is the special Phallic symbol which veils the actual God and therefore do we find him the constant early attendant upon Priapus or Lingam which I regard as the second religion of the world 12 Phallic Worship the second if not the first of man s faiths 13 James G R Forlong Fund editThe Royal Asiatic Society s James G R Forlong Fund derives from his bequest in a will dated 1901 The fund was registered as a charity in 1962 to be used for the encouragement of the study of the religions history character languages and customs of Eastern races and within this definition to be devoted to the funding of scholarships and the publication of short works on these subjects 14 15 Publications in the James G Forlong Fund Series include Vol 29 Corpus of early Tibetan inscriptions by Hugh Richardson 1985 ISBN 978 09 47 59300 1 Vol 28 Study of the spoken Arabic of Baskinta by Farida Abu Haidar 1979 ISBN 978 90 04 05948 1 Vol 27 Guide to the romanization of Burmese by John Okell 1971 ISBN 978 90 04 04438 8 Vol 26 Two Prakrit versions of the Manipati Carita by Williams 1959 ISBN 978 90 04 04436 4 Vol 25 A Bibliography of Arms and Armour in Islam by Keppel Archibald Cameron 1956 Vol 24 Siva Nana Bodham a manual of Saiva religious doctrine by Meykaṇṭatevar translated from the Tamil with synopsis exposition by Gordon Matthews 1948 Vol 23 Muslim Theology by Arthur Stanley Tritton 1947 Vol 22 Sharaf al Zaman Ṭahir Marvazi on China the Turks and India by Sharaf al Zaman Ṭahir Marwazi tr and commentary by Vladimir Minorsky 1942 Vol 21 Sogdica by Walter Bruno Henning 1940 Vol 20 A Translation of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan by Thomas Burrow 1940 Vol 19 A Dictionary of the Language of Bugotu Santa Isabel Island Solomon Islands by Walter George Ivens 1940 Vol 18 Marriage in Early Islam by Gertrude Henrietta Stern 1939 Vol 17 Three Persian Dialects by Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton 1938 Vol 16 The Pronunciation of Kashmiri by Thomas Grahame Bailey 1937 Vol 15 Balti Grammar by Alfred Frank Charles Read 1934 Vol 14 Study of the Gujarati language in the 16th century by Trimbaklal Nandikeshwar Dave 1935 ISBN 978 90 04 04434 0 Vol 13 An Introduction to Colloquial Bengali by Walter Sutton Page 1934 Vol 12 The Phonetic System of Ancient Japanese by Saburo Yoshitake 1934 Vol 11 Dialogues in the Eastern Turki dialect on subjects of interest to travellers by Ross 1934 ISBN 978 90 04 04432 6 Vol 10 Ta rikh i Jahan gushay of Juwayni vol 3 by Wahid ul Mulk intro by Edward Denison Ross 1931 Vol 9 Diwan by Falaki i Shirwani 1929 ISBN 978 90 04 04430 2 Vol 8 The Elements of Japanese Writing by Noel Everard Isemonger 1929 Vol 7 Critical studies in the phonetic observations of Indian grammarians 1929 Vol 6 Falaki i Shirwani his times life and works by Hasan Hadi 1929 ISBN 978 90 04 04429 6 Vol 5 The Milindapanho being dialogues between King Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nagasena The Pali text ed Vilhelm Trenckner index by C J Rylands and an index of Gathas by Caroline A F Rhys Davids 1928 Vol 4 Taʾrikh i Fakhruʾd d Din Mubarakshah being the historical introduction to the Book of Genealogies of Fakhruʾd Din Mubarakshah Marvar rudi completed in A D 1206 edited from a unique manuscript by E Denison Ross by Fakhr ul Din Mubarakshah 1927 Vol 3 Moslem Architecture 623 to 1516 Some causes and consequences by Ernest Tatham Richmond 1926 Vol 2 The Arab Conquests in Central Asia by Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb 1923 Vol 1 The Primitive Culture of India by Thomas Callan Hodson 1922 Notes and references edit Sources according to ancestry com Ian Patterson s printouts given to Robin IGI T Apiryon Forlong dux The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius Conder C R 1904 Major General Forlong M R A S Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 36 3 517 523 doi 10 1017 S0035869X00032202 JSTOR 25208675 Rivers of life Vols 1 and 2 or sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments B Quaritch London Edinburgh printed 1883 See for example an orthodox view on this type of interpretation Such an interpretation of the Ark of the Covenant constitutes the highest blasphemy and yet is precisely the perverted view which Antichrist will hold toward the Ark of the restored Jewish Covenant Ralph Woodrow Babylon Mystery Religion Evangelistic Association Inc Palm Springs 1966 Gould Frederick James 1929 The Pioneers of Johnson s Court A History of the Rationalist Press Association From 1899 Onwards Watts p 28 Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1904 5 A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists Watts amp co London 1924 Lord Rutherfurd s grave Dean Cemetery 8 June 2013 H P Blavatsky Buddhism Christianity And Phallicism in Lucifer a Theosophical Magazine 1896 vol 1 p34 vol 1 p93 vol 1 p117 https royalasiaticsociety org wp content uploads 2015 04 Report and Financial Statements 2013 pdf bare URL PDF JAMES G R FORLONG FUND Charity 209629 7 External links edit nbsp Works related to James Forlong at Wikisource Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title James Forlong amp oldid 1125645191, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
