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PREFACE
For ages woman has been ground down and op- pressed by the tyranny of man. She has been de- graded into the position of merely being the wife of a man. There has been no thought that she had an individuality of her own, and that she had a life of her own to live. The whole thought has been that her destiny was realized in being the mere satellite of a man. This conception that woman's sphere was the home, has kept her from her true sphere of usefulness. In plain words, woman has been valued only for sexual purposes. Her mission has been to satisfy the sexual de- sires of her husband, and to gratify her lord's passion and to bear his children. However, after her long slumber, she is waking up. She is ex)m- ing to realize that she has another and a higher mission in life than this. She is beginning to realize that she has a soul of her own, which she must individualize to the highest possible point, and that she has a life of her own that must be lived. Her powers have been kept enchained, so that, while her will is all powerful, she has been taught to obey instead of commanding obedience on the part of man. Woman is in real- ity the Alchemist of life. It is her function to transform and to create all things. Her maternal function is that of the Creatrix, Physically, Emo- tionally, Psychically Mentally, and Spiritually. The welfare of the Race is absolutely dependent upon her being able to exercise this function with perfect freedom. She is the molder and the Cre- atrix of the future. All new faculties are creat- ed by woman. The divine potency of her sex has
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been trampled under foot, in order that she may satisfy the lust of man. At last she has commenced to assert herself and to demand expression for her Ego, as well as for all the powers of her feminine soul. She contains within her soul, the potencies of all possible spiritual creation and evolution. She contains within her pelvis, the latent potencies for the concrete realization of all those states. Hence, the future is in her hands. It cannot be evolved, it must be created, and she alone can create it. It must be born and woman alone can give birth to it. For this reason, woman is the only possible Savior of the race. She is not the weaker sex, she is the strong- er sex. Woman is not the inferior of man; she is his superior. The future development of the race will be the work of the women, not of the men. The man of the future must be mothered, and woman is the only mother. Man is absolute- ly dependent upon woman for his deliverance. Religion, philosophy and culture have gone as far as they can, without women to mother them and to bring them into the higher fields into which they are destined to enter.
This book has been written for two purposes : in the first place, it is destined to call upon all women to assert their womanhood, and to come forth into the light of day and to be themselves. It calls upon every woman to give expression to all that is latent within her. To make all of her dreams come true. To make her ideals real. To live the life of her woman's soul. It is a trumpet call to women to be themselves, and to express their sexual natures on all the planes of Ufe. It calls upon her to express the fullness of her feminine life, and to expand her maternity until all humanity are her children, and where she sees that she is the mother, who must bring forth that which is to be hereafter. In the sec-
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ond place, it shows iier the vision of the woman of the future, and what she will be. It calls upon all the women of this generation to set for themselves the task of bringing forth the woman of the future. It calls upon all women to bring into the world the Super-Wom- an, the next step in evolution beyond woman. It urges her to cease to gaze into the skies for her Savior, and to trust to herself, to her woman ^s soul for deliverance, not only for herself, but for all other women and for men as well. It not only holds forth this ideal, but it also indicates the path that will lead to the goal. In fact it not only urges them to this work, but tells them exactly what and how to do it. It is in fact a perfect prescription showing how Super- Women are to be produced. It is the gospel of the de- liverance of woman, and of woman's self deliv- erance, and self realization.
In writing the book, the author has done all in his power. The task of bringing this into real- ization is one for the women to perform. No one else can do it. All that the author can do is in this book to plead with woman to save herself and then save man. The time has come to act. We call upon every woman who reads the follow- ing pages to consecrate herself to this Great Work. What will the answer be ? Do we beseech you in vain? Will you permit another age of materialism and lust to disgrace the earth; or will you say to the men ** little boys, you have made a mess of things and have shown your in- capacity long enough ; we are going to run things now and straighten the kinks out a bit.'' This is the plea which we are making to you. Reform- ers can do nothing. The humanity of the future requires a mother to raise it. Will the woman- hood of the present generation undertake to be that mother? We await your answer. And let
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that answer be in deeds not in words. That is, let your answer be in the form of a deliberate application of the teachings here given, and by putting them into practice. In other words, start in right now to be the woman who is to bring forth the Seed that is to bruise the Head of the Serpent. What is the answer, potential mothers of the future?
Hach-mactzin El Dorado Can. Heirophant of Isis.
Chicago, 111., March 5th, 1916.
DEDICATION.
To that noble body of earnest women, striving night and day, for self expression and self real- ization, and ever seeking to bring into manifes- tation their Dreams, Longings, Aspirations and Ideals, the potential mothers of the future, this work is reverently dedicated, with the hope that it may encourage them to strive on until all their dreams have come true, and with the further hope that in it they may find knowledge that will aid them in finding the way unto complete self expression. With affection and encouragement.
THE AUTHOR.