Career
He joined the Indian Army in 1843 later filling various posts including that of Secretary and Chief Engineer to the government of Oudh. 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,, with its markedly sexual, some would say blasphemous, interpretation of religious rites and symbolism.
He was an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association, to which he left a sum of money in his will.
He died in 1904. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. Rivers of "..the shower of phallicism that burst upon the reading public in the shape of General Forlong"s ".
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. Like Payne-Knight, Doctorate’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 had 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 early Jews practiced a most crude and extreme form of phallic worship. Christian churches are constructed on phallic principles.
All these ideas are backed up which great erudition and parallels from antiquity, India and the far east.
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. He 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.
Phallic Worship, the second if not the first of man’s faiths.