part in the ecstatic vibrations magnetically aroused.

Here, too, the woman is supreme; but she must be pure of heart and sound of head ; wise, too, with the wisdom of knowledge and experience, the woman
— " nobly planned. To warn, to counsel, and conunand."
6/rhe higher we rise in the scale of being the less we need the friction of matter to produce creative vibrations, those vibrations on which God descends to become one with and in us.
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netic union must be as fine and spiritual as that soul. The rough angles of his nature must be rounded off, his selfish arrogance be converted into gentle consideration for her and for ethers as his equals. The spirit of sacrifice and protecting care attracts love from the soul pf the woman. Mother- love is a form of sex love, being its natural prod- uct. The two manifestations are alike in essence, having different objects. The man loses himself in the woman, while the woman loses herself in her children. The radius of a man's love is lim- ited by the woman, but that of the woman, the mother, extends to many, and the more numerous the objects of her affection, the more expanded is her capacity to love.
It is the undifferentiated mother-love which re- turns good for evil and when smitten, turns the other cheek. When men are filled with this love, the' Christ will be begotten in every child and Re- generation will begin in infancy. Feelings of tenderness and efforts to provide for and protect the weak are promptings of the Father, and the emanations from such a spirit promote friendship and attract love. Nay, more, they beget the Christ, the germ of immortality.
The desire to provide for the objects of love is prompted by the Father, but beware lest love ciing to the things as well as to the objects loved. This is the divided love, the foe to that oneness which
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alone begets the Christ. "Thou shalt have no other gods ** than love for Love's sake — but, alas for the ideals of humanity ! Men and women too often enter the married state simply for gain, or worse still, for the gratification of sexual lust. Right here woman has a mission. Her ideals of attraction are false ; Marriage is the end, and dress and ribbons, showy accomplishments, with chicy the means. This gay display, this vanity of appear- ance, like fine feathers on the birds, may be one of Nature's sly methods of perpetuating the race ; but the majority of women would shrink from flaunting such signals if they caught sight of Nature's inten- tions.
Woman is a mystery, an enigma, — and this is one of her most powerful attractions. We do not desire that which we already have; we long for something just beyond us, and an innocent co- quetry is one of the feminine wiles to arouse and keep active the masculine curiosity and longing. "Pushed beyond its mark," it degenerates into conscienceless deceit.
To appear more and better than we are is a common aim. To overreach in trade, to get some- thing for nothing, to get the better of a brother or sister in any way, while preserving an appearance of integrity and honor, affords the profoundest satisfaction. To pervert innocence, to tempt the lawless, to arouse passion by the display of false
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charms, are but reflections from the debased ideals of mankind. The work of a spurious regenera- tion goes bravely on, and we see such bom of water and the spirit daily by a profession of belief that Jesus of Nazareth is God, the Son of God, and a plunge in, or sprinkle of water !
Jesus could have used no more appropriate symbol in indicating the change in man from a mortal to an immortal being than the waters of birth, the fructifying generative water of the mysterious unknown, upon which the Spirit of God moved in the gestation of worlds and in which the embryotic child floats in its mother's womb, — water that quenches the fires that destroy, and which water the spirit is constantly impreg- nating with new forms of life. The new man is a new being, conceived by spirit, and gestated in the great deep of human nature to become possessed after birth, through the processes of growth, of power over the forces of nature, to be safe from hurtful or poisonous things, and able to defy disease and death. This it is to be " born of the spirit and of water.*' Plainly stated, the fol- lowing are the conditions precedent to Regenera- tion : The masculine nature in man must know and enter into the feminine nature in himself. Thus out of the duality of Generation there will be established the oneness of Regeneration. The same action must take place in the nature of the
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woman. By the entrance of the male element into the female element of each individual, the Christ is conceived. Thought and desire turned inward to the permanent and spiritual, gestate the embryo, and its birth is the beginning of Regeneration. This work must be perfected in each individual spiritually^ before it can appear physically, ex- pressed in character.
Every man has within himself a mother-soul, or love, into which the mind must enter to be min- gled with and assimilated before it is possible for him to attract the Bride, that Virgin mother-love which completes his divine nature by making him one with the All In like manner the male nature in the woman must be blended with the female nature, which will then become Fatherly in char- acter as well as Motherly. Justice and tenderness will be equal ; the female expansiveness will be- come provident and the vacillating, ill-regulated Will becomes poised and regular in its action. The woman who regenerates the male elements in herself is self-reliant and self-governing, and no true man will aspire to rule over her. To govern herself is to govern her husband ; and if her rule spring from wisdom, justice, and love, it will aid in his Regeneration. She can recreate him into what she herself has become in fier male nature, by keeping her ideal man constantly in mind and living that ideal herself. The silent, persistent,
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honest thought-force of woman is irresistible, mold- ing, fashioning, and controlling men, drawing them up to the heights of human nature and, alas ! cast- ing them down to its hells. She holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven both for herself and for man, for if she will take as husband only the man who represents her ideal of manhood, patiently waiting, fully expecting his advent into her life, he will presently appear She must realize intel- lectually, that is, she must have in mind the com- plete picture of her ideal, as her soul intuitively knows him.
Undue sexual appetite, or lust, is due to an ex- cess of animal magnetism, and a woman who has united the dual forces within herself can appropri- ate that magnetism in ways that will build anew the nervous system ; but this power does not come by mere knowledge. It is a soul power, springing from love and command of the physical nature, which may be developed by intelligent training. A man thus controlled cannot help loving his wife devotedly, not passionately, but reverently, tenderly, purely.
Judgment and criticism of others has no legiti- mate place in those in whom the Christ is born. **I come not to judge the world, but to save it," is the distinguishing characteristic of the Christ. Man in the natural state judges others, but the Christ is Love, and not judgment. This Love
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throws the mantle of charity over the weaknesses and follies of the most depraved. In the words of our dear brother, John Heaney, the right spirit is expressed : " I believe that every one does the best he can under the circumstances he is in." That sentiment, affirmed by the judgment and exemplified in the daily life, evinces an exaltation of soul very far removed from the plane of ordi- nary human nature. The Inquisition, serfdom and slavery, together with all the wars and wrongs that blacken the pages of history, have sprung from man's presumption in sitting in the seat of judgment, that place which God only is compe- tent to fill. He only knows the end from the be- ginning. He alone can see why poor humanity blunders and the wise keep silent before the in- junction : " Let him who is without sifi cast the first stone." If we feel the spirit of criticism ris- ing within and words of reproach tremble on the tongue, let us take the matter "into the silence,** and if we find the Christ within, judgment will give place to love, and the spirit of criticism will be swallowed up and lost in the Divine Wisdom. It is true that our intellectual judgment is for use ; but lest in our deficiency of wisdom we give pre- mature expression of it where others are involved, let us learn to wait, watch, and pray, rather than blame another.