CHAPTER I.

FEMINISM VIEWED FROM A HEBMETIO STANDPOINT.
The Law of Causation governs all manifesta- tions of a popular nature as well as everything else, and hence the Hermetic Student sees in the Feminist Movement of the present day but the reflection of a Kosmical State, if he can but find out what that is. Therefore, it behooves us as Hermetists to discover the cause of the Femin- ism of the present occasion.
The Universe is not a machine, as many as- sume, but on the contrary it is but a Sequence of Synthetic Action, a Process of Creative Evolu- tion, and every event of life is but the reflection of the states of activity presented by that Creat- ive Evolutionary Process. In a word, the Uni- verse is a Creative Principle, engendering a Formative Process, which results in a Sequence of Formative Action. This Sequence of Forma- tive Action, however, presents the dual aspect of Creative Energy and Formative Gestation on all the Planes of its activity. Thus we have the Creative Energy acting the part of the Father w^ho begets and the Formative Process the part of the Mother who gives birth to a state of Uni- versal Activity below that Plane, which in turn differentiates itself into the Father and the Mother of a still lower process of activity. The lowest of all of these activities is that of the Earth Spirit, as we might call it. This is a state purely physical, that is, it is physical activity, thus presenting the dual Creative and Formative
modes of activity, thus operating under the form
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of a masculinity and femininity. The masculine aspect is called Votan, the Eartii Father, and the Feminine Aspect is termed Mamapacha, that is, the Material Principle, which engenders all things in the Earth, or the Physical Plane. Mama- pacha engenders all things from her own Sub- stance, and at the same time abides in them, that is, there is an aspect of this Feminine Principle incarnate in every thing, which is the Formative aspect of that thing. This specialized aspect of Mamapacha is the Mama or Mother Principle of the thing, and it is this which perpetually renews the forin and in this way perpetuates its Evolu- tion. In this way Creative Evolution is going on all the time in every Concrete Object as weU as in the Higher Essences. Organic Evolution is therefore nothing short of the Gestative Activity of the Mama resident in the Organism. The synthesis of all the Mamas or Material Essences in Concrete Objects constitutes Pachamama or the Maternity of all things. The distinction is that Mamapacha is the Abstract Principle of Earth Motherhood, while Pachamama is the Con- crete Synthetic Action of this same principle. Evolution on the Physical Plane is therefore the result of the Interactivity of Votan and Pachamama.
As the Earth in its Great Circuit passes through the range of a Constellation, represent- ed by a Cycle of 2,156 years and 8 months, it takes on the Influence or vibration of that partic- ular Constellation. In a word, both Votan and Pachamama, and hence all the Mamas, are re- bom and during that entire Cycle they belong to that Sign of the Zodiac. This means that the Vibration of the Constellation will transform the Vibration of both Votan and Pachamama so that they will in reality take on the nature of that Sign, and will correspond to a man and woman born under that Sign. In this way we have the
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Horoscope of the Earth Father, and the Earth Mother.
We are able to determine the influences of the Constellations with infallibility by reason of the Sacred Animals, or traditional Symbols that are used with reference to their corresponding Signs in the Zodiac.
If we go back far enough into the past we will find that the Theological System was a distinct Feminism. The first of the gods was a goddess without a husband, a virgin who was the Genera- trix giving birth to a son, and then to all the other gods and goddesses. This was the Virgin and Child conception. The Mother of the gods was the First and the Ruling Deity. This con- ception gave rise to a distinct Feminism that reached out through every phase of life, and the result was that even when she was supposed to become married, her husband was nevertheless subject to her. That is to say, she continued to be his mother at the same time that she was his wife. This idea led to the same relationship in human life. The wife ruled over the husband, who was in a certain sense her son. The author- ity in the home was vested in the wife, because she was the representative of the Great Mother, and hence ruled for her. In the course of time this idea was overcome and the Great Mother was degraded from the position of the Mother of the Gods to that of the Consort of the Father of the Gods, so that the Divine Matriarchate was overthrown by a Divine Patriarchate, and the Feminism of the past was transformed into a Masculinism. We wish to show that this change was not an arbitrary one on the part of the people, but that it transpired in the constitution of nature itself. In other words, there was an actual revolution on the part of the gods that sub- jugated the goddesses to them.
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The Feminism was under the Constellation of Virgo, or the Virgin and Child Constellation. The Cycle of Virgo began 13,216 B. C. and ended 11,059 B. C. The Symbol of this Cycle in the Egyptian Zodiac was Isis or the Great Mother. In some of the Zodiac's she is represented naked, which would indicate the glory of the Feminine sex as being superior to the Masculine and the grandeur attributed to Motherhood. She holds a head of Com in her hand, which was the sym- bol of Feminine Generation, the grains represent- ing the Ova of the Great Mother. In the common Zodiac the Virgin holds the Child and is sur- rounded with the heads of Com, which indicates that she is the first Mother, or the Virgin Moth- er, without a Husband, who yet gives birth to a child. The meaning of this is that the Vibration of the Constellation of Virgo is distinctly Fem- inine and that during this Cycle the Vibration of the Constellation has so awakened the vibra- tion of Pachamama and the Mamas that the en- tire earth is distinctly Feminine in its vibration. This awakening of the Mamas caused them to dominate Votan and hence the earth became a woman. At the same time there are higher Prin- ciples than the Physical that are affected by the Constellations, and therefore, the entire Universe was distinctly Feminine at that time. Because of this the Universe became the Virgin Mother, for the Feminine overcame everything else, and this Feminizing of the Universal Vibration made everything act in a Feminine manner. Also the Feminine was aroused in the people and the woman was the stronger of the two. She was thus able through the power of her will to sub- jugate the man, and during the entire Cycle she ruled him and he was forced to obey her, for at that time the Feminine was the Positive Pole of Life. In the course of time the earth receded to the Constellation of Leo and then we had just
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the^ reverse. The MaseuKne Power was awaken- ed in the Kosmos and in the Earth. The Mother Principle was subjugated to the Masculine, which was now the Positive Pole and the Feminine the Negative Pole. This change, because of the fact that the dominant vibration of all nature was now the Masculine, gave to the man the greater power and he was able to dominate the woman, in whom the Feminine was manifesting. The Masculinity of the Universe gave the measure of control and dominance to the male, and the era of womanly obedience to man began as a result of this change in the polarity of the Universe.
The next step in the degradation of the Femi- nine was taken 8,903 B. C, at the beginning of the Cycle of Cancer. This was the Cycle of Physi- cal Motherhood, in the sense that the Mother Principle was relegated to the position of nour- ishing the young, and it was at that time the wom- an Was, through Evolutionary Law, relegated to the position of Motherhood alone. The Cycle of Gemini, 6,746 B. C. to 4,589 B. C, marked the degradation of the Feminine to the purely ma- terial. The Feminine vibration during this time was very slight on the Higher Planes and was stronger in the Lower Planes, and this tended to make woman material and to give to man the . major portion of Spirituality. It was at this time that the male was the superior of the female in every sense of the word, so that the male soul was far the superior of the female soul. The doctrine of the soulless nature of women came very nearly being true at this time, for the Prin- ciple of Soul had become almost entirely Mascu- line, and thus it was almost wanting in the wom- en. This state was not due to any oppression on the part of man, but was in reality the work of Natural Evolution, and the dominance of man over woman was but the natural and proper dom- inance of the Superior over the Inferior. It was
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all a part of the Evolutionary Process. Then came the Cycle of Taums from 4,589 B. C. to 2,433 B. C. During this period the Feminine Principle was still farther degraded by the Evo- lutionary Forces of Nature, so that it was re- duced to the Astral Desires, and in the women of the entire world it manifested in a powerful development of the Passions and Desires, and particularly in Sex Instinct. Feminine Intelli- gence deteriorated and the woman being given almost entirely to carnal desire was looked up- on by the man as only an instrument for the gratification of his sex passions, and this was quite proper at the time, for only in this way could the feminine principle operate. From 2,433 B. C. to 276 B. C. we have the Cycle of Aries, or the time of the highest development of the Mas- culine Principle, when the Masculine Will had reached its most dominant stage, and in many respects the Feminine Principle and hence wom- an was degraded to the lowest possible point. Having passed through five Masculine Cycles in the sense of Cycles in which the Masculine was destined to dominate, the earth next entered the sign of Pisces, or the Cycle of the Child in a certain Mystical sense, and from that time forth we see the Mother Principle in Nature awaken- ing and hence the position of the wife and moth- er becoming more honored, but this led to the greater power in many respects of the husband, for woman's sphere was that of the wife and mother. At last we entered the Cycle of Aquar- ius in 1881. Aquarius is the Waterman. In the Hindoo Zodiac this Sign is represented by a woman bearing the Vase of Amrita in her hand, and in the Egyptian Zodiac it is a Divine Figure pouring a double stream of Water from a Vase. Water is the Great Feminine Principle, just as Breath is the great Masculine Principle. Water is therefore the Feminine Spirit of Nature. The
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two streams are the Heavenly Waters of the Great Mother, and the Earthly Waters of the Earth Mother. The thing that is to be borne in mind is that this is a purely Feminine Cycle, and that it is this Cycle that brings the Feminine Principle into full manifestation. Also it is to be borne in mind that it is also the bringer in of the Heavenly Feminine as well as the Earthly Feminine. The meaning is that on all of the Planes of the Manifest Universe the Feminine Vibration is being awakened and aroused to ac- tion. This Cycle in reality led to a New Birth for the Mamas, for Pachamama and also for the Mother of the gods, so that they are coming forth with a Positive Power rather than the Negative Power that they have tad in the past. As the years go by the Mamas are gaining in power and will ere long entirely dominate the earth. The Great Mother will dominate the en- tire Super-Physical Kosmos, and everything will be Feminized. As this Feminine Principle is awakened in the Universe it is reflected in wom- an, where it grows stronger every day, and will in time become much stronger in her than is the Masculine Principle in man, for the reason that it is stronger in Nature than the Masculine Prin- ciple. Thus as the Feminine becomes the Posi- tive Pole of Nature, the woman will become the Positive Pole of Humanity, and this will give her the strength of will necessary to subdue him and dominate him, so that he will have to obey her. There are, as a result of this change of polarity, an ever increasing number of women who refuse to pledge themselves to obey their husbands ; also there is an increasing number of men who no longer expect their wives to obey them. There is also a greatly increasing number of men who in reality are obeying their wives at the present time, and plenty of wives who expect obedience on the part of their husbands ! There is also
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a growing tendency on the part of wives to '* mother '* their husbands, which all goes to in- dicate that the Eternal Feminine is assuming authority, and that this assumption of authority is being accepted by many men. Also the Mother instinct is growing on the part of women. This does not mean the tendency to become mothers, for this is only the result of the restriction of the woman to the material plane that excludes her from the field of Intelligence and Spiritual- ity.
Woman, under the awakening influence of the New Cycle, is becoming Militant in more ways than one. The cause of Militancy is the Mili- tancy of the Feminine Principle in Nature, which is struggling to subjugate the Masculine Prin- ciple, and this Militant Vibration is reflected in the women, making them struggle against the men and demand power. This Militancy becomes most striking in the struggle for the Ballot, par- ticularly in England; but nevertheless it is everywhere. Let us not be deceived by assum- ing that these women will be satisfied when they get the right to vote. They will not be, but will insist upon representation in all the offices. They will go to the extreme of never voting for a man when there is a woman running against him. Then they will start in to disfranchise the men! Doubtless every Suffragette will repudiate any such intention, and no one said that they intend- ed to do it ; we stated not what they intend to do but what they are going to do. The reason is this: Humanity is but the Mirror in which is re- flected the states of activity going on in the Uni- verse, and as the Universe is becoming Militantly Feminine, the woman will of necessity become the same. We are informed that women have not the capacity to carry out a successful revolu- tion against the other sex, and no one said that they had, but they will have it in the very near
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future, for the Feminine Will and Intelligence will continue to grow stronger, as that of the male will grow correspondingly weaker, and the result will be that in twenty years the wom- en will be the superiors of the men in every sense of the word. Not only will this be the case, but they will have more courage, and a more Militant and independent spirit. There is another thing that must be borne in mind: As the Universe becomes more Feminine, the men will also become more Feminine, and hence the Molding Principle in Evolution will be the stronger in the w^men. Let us not deceive ourselves, this Militancy on the part of the women is not a war for liberty; it is a war of conquest, and they are urged on by the Feminine Principle in the Universe; hence they will stop short of nothing but the dominance of the Masculine sex. The women will demand obed- ience on the part of the entire Masculine popu- lation and will get it, for the reason that the Mas- culine Principle in Nature will be forced to yield obedience to the Feminine Principle.
We find that this Feminism is rebelling against the restraints of convention, and the woman of today refuses to be required to have a Mascu- line protector. The independent woman of to- day insists upon fighting her own way through the world. Also there is a struggle against con- vention in dress. One of its most notable exam- ples is in the determination of the women to show as much of the body as possible. This is by many deplored as indecent ; but w^hy is it so ? In the Feminine Period the women went entirely naked, and the men wore clothes; this was be- cause the woman considered herself the superior, and as such was proud of her sex. At a later period, when the Feminine was being degraded, the goddesses continued to be depicted in a state of nudity, but in the course of time the Feminine was so dishonored that the woman kept the body
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entirely covered to hide her sex. Now that Fem- inism is being awakened, we see a growing pride in the charms of the feminine sex, and hence a desire to present them to the world. This is not an indication of impurity as it once was, for many of the most refined women insist in wear- ing clothes that show off their sex. There is still a great element of Feminine prudery that de- nounces such paintings as September Mom, but this is in reality the one painting that voices the Grlory of the Eternal Feminine, and her complete emancipation from her past degradation. In the course of time this reactionary element will disappear from the world, and the demands of society will be for the woman to show her sex as much as possible and for the man to hide his as far as possible. This is the trend of Kosmic Evolution for some 21 centuries to come, and there is nothing that can prevent its working any more than there has been to prevent the workings of the course of Evolution during the past 13,000 years. The time is coming when the women will rule the men, when wives will rule their husbands and when the entire fabric of so- ciety wiU be organized upon a basis of pure Fem- inism. Eeligion wiU also be reorganized in this way. We see this tendency already in the recog- nition of the Motherhood of God, and there is a growing tendency to look upon Deity as Maternal to the relative exclusion of the Paternal aspect. This can only lead to one possible result, the for- mation of a Cultus of the Divine Feminine, and that will mean a Priesthood of women in place of the present Priesthood of men. This new Priesthood will in time insist upon the duty of husbands to be submissive to their wives with as much unction as the male Priesthood of the past insisted upon the duty of wives to be sub- missive to their husbands! It would not sur- prise us a bit if in the course of the coming years
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the women pass laws authorizing them to disci- pline their wayward husbands in the same way that men used to have laws permitting them to discipline their wayward wives. And judging from some of the men we know, it will not hurt them a bit! From what has been said in the above many will wonder what the writer's opin- ions are in regard to the advisability of this Fem- inism. What difference does it make what he thinks? What is the use of commenting upon the Decree of Fate ? The Stars indicate what is writ- ten in the Book of Fate, and **what is written is Written,'' so there is nothing for us men to do but make the most of it. We have ruled the wom- en for nearly 13,000 years, and turn about is fair play. We are too much of a Sport to complain if Creative Evolution has stacked the cards against us after having stacked them in our fa- vor during six consecutive games. We must take our defeat like true Sports and let the ladies have the whip hand for a couple of thousand years, and we can well afford to be charitable, seeing that we cannot help ourselves.
CHAPTER n.
MATBIABGHY THE COMING FORM OP GOVERNMENT.
In times past the form of govemment has been some form of the Patriarchate. By this we do not necessarily mean Patriarchal in the sense of being governed by a Patriarch, but rather gov- ernment by men, where the women have no voice in tiie affairs of the govemment, and where, as a matter of fact, the male population exercises a protectorate over the female population. At the same time we are considering this it will be well for us to bear in mind that before the time of the Patriarchate there was a Matriarchate, and that this change in the form of govemment was the outgrowth of changes in Creative Evo- lution and also in the Eeligion of the World. This being the case, it follows that there is nothing Eternal or Divine in the Patriarchate, but that it is the result of a certain state of Evolution, and hence another aspect of Evolution may de- velop the Matriarchate again. In view of this truth and of the fact that we are now living in a Cycle which is distinctly Feminine, and therefore more favorable to the development of the Matri- archate than was the time when it was developed before, it becomes evident that ere long we will see the restoration of the Matriarchate. It is to be borne in mind that we are here using the term Matriarchate in the sense of a govemment of women, in which they to a certain extent ex- ercise a Protectorate over the male population and in which the element of motherhood is the prominent feature, for a Matriarchate would be
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a Maternal Govermnent, wjiether in the person of a mother or of a Mnltitudinal Mother compos- ed of the Feminine Citizenship of the country. In view of aU this, it will be most interesting to take note of the relative value of the two forms of government. In this investigation it is essen- tial that we be governed entirely by the Scientific Spirit, and that the Personal Equation not be permitted to influence our minds.
Ever since the first dawning of Feminism it has been the habit of their male enemies to appeal to Biology as a means of crushing Fem- inism and they have assured women they were Biologically and Psychologically unfitted for the function of government. We wish in this analy- sis of the subject to inquire as to the effect upon Sociology of the peculiarity of the Biological and Psychological Sex Differentiation. And we must be governed entirely by the results of such an- alysis.
It is quite true that sex differentation of man and woman is not confined to the Physical Plane, but that it reaches into Mind and Soul as well. A woman has not the same kind of a mind that a man has, unless she be unsexed. There is the same differentiation between the minds and Rea- soning Faculties of men and women that there is between their respective bodily forms and it is utterly impossible for woman ever to perform the functions of the male as well as the man can. In a word, each has his or her sphere, and con- fusion results the moment the one enters the sphere of the other. Therefore, we must insist that woman occupy her own sphere, and not en- croach upon that of man, where her usefulness will be restricted. All of this we admit, but the burning question is. What is woman's sphere? This is not a question to be settled by rules of sentiment, but one that must be settled scientifi-
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oally. If a woman has one sphere and man an- other, it is because the peculiarities of the Bio- logical and Psychological differentiations of the sexes have placed them there, and no amount of sentiment will ever be able to change that Bi- ological and Psychological Differentiation. What has the peculiarity of woman's Biology and Psy- chology best fitted her for?
The Reason of the man, when he has any, is distinctly Analytical, while that of the woman, if she has any, is distinctly Synthetical. This means that in every instance the woman will be constructive, while the man will be destructive, in their Rational operations. Hence man is Radi- cal, while woman is Conservative. This peculiar- ity of masculine Reason peculiarly fits man for the quest for Truth. No woman is the equal of man when it comes to running down the Truth on any given subject, for man is the Philosopher par excellence. At the same time we find that man, by reason of his superiority of Analysis, is not as a rule Constructive. That is to say, he discovers the Truth, but as a rule does not Synthesize this Truth into an Homogeneous Sys- tem. Another thing characteristic of the Intelligent Man is the fact that he does not attach any impor- tance to the Truth which he has discovered, but the moment he has discovered a Law of Nature he loses interest in it, and concentrates all his efforts on the search for something that up to this time has eluded inquiry. This is as it should be, for were it not for this characteristic of man we would not be anywhere near so far along in Science as we are at the present time. But just in proportion as man is able to discover thcj Truth, is he indifferent to what is done with it after it is discovered. There are thousands of discoveries today that have never been given to the world, for the simple reason that the ones
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who made them did not see that they were of im- portance to the world, and were also indifferent to the needs of the human family. This brings us to the consideration of another characteristic of man and woman. Man is never Practical. He is interested in Truth as an Ultimate Eeality, but not as a means unto an end. He seeks Truth for her own sake. This is also absolutely neces- sary, for one who does not seek Truth for Truth's sake will never find very much Truth. In a word, if man is to make a success of his mission as the Truth Seeker he must lose all interest in every- thing but Truth. As a rule he does not even care to teach the Truth to others, but looks always to the Quest. However, there are many who are willing to Teach the Truth to others, but at the same time there is one point which is at all times characteristic of the Intelligent man: he never thinks of putting Truth to any Practical use; if he does, it is proof positive that he is either a mediocre, totally incapable of discovering the Truth on any subject, or that he is double-sexed and feminine to that extent. When a man has any Reason at all it is the Pure Eeason, and when a woman has the Reason developed it is invari- ably the Practical Reason. Woman cares very little for Truth. What she is interested in is what practical use Truth can be put to. She looks upon nothing as of value except as it can be ap- plied to Life and her dominant mental charac- teristic is the wish to see all Truth applied to some Ethical end. To her, Wisdom is of no value except as it will be reflected in Morality. For this reason, her one desire is to make the world bet- ter, while the man longs first of all to know the Truth, and as a secondary consideration to teach it to others. For this reason, woman is unfitted for the quest for Truth, but is admirably fitted for the work of making the world better. This is a task for which no Intelligent man is qualified.
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for the simple reason that the undertaking does not interest him.
The man's task in life is to give life, that of woman is to give form ; hence man discovers true principles, but has no conception as to how they are to be given form, and not only this, but very little inclination to waste his time in giving them form. In this he is quite right, for w^re he to do so, he would cease his labor of discovering new principles, and the progress of the world would cease. ^ Just as man lives in the Abstract, woman lives in the Concrete. She is essentially a mother, whether she has children or not. There is such a thing as Mental and Soul Motherhood, and this quality is manifested in her tendency to give Concrete Form to all that she accepts as true. In the Moral World man is just, but has no conception of the making of people better. He will punish crime with great rigor, or he will ex- cuse it on the ground of the weakness of human nature, utterly failing to realize that if there is any excuse for law it is that it may change human nature and make it better. This total unfitness to make laws for the government of any country is indicated by the fact that the Psychology of the culprit is seldom, if ever, taken into consideration, and a crime is a crime for all that. Now punish- ment, if it can be justified at all, must be as a means of correcting immoral tendencies, and not as revenge for what has been done. Again the man follows the idea of policy, and that is alto- gether wrong. Government exists for the en- forcement of right and for the reformation of character, not for the protection of vested in- terests. If morality is to be legislated into a country, it must be by those in whom the moral instinct is dominant and not by those who are more or less indifferent to the Moral Element. Because of the fact that Intelligence is of infinite-
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ly more importance to man than Morality, he is therefore unfitted for the work of developing the morals of the citizenry. Because of his philo- sophical insight he becomes indifferent to abuses that would call for correction, were it not for his broader outlook, and for this reason he is un- fitted for the work of government. It is his most valuable characteristics that render him thus un- fit. To impose those practical matters upon man is to shut him out from his true vocation as the Discoverer and the Teacher, and thus leads to his degeneracy in ever so many ways.
Woman, by reason of the peculiarity of her Psychology, is possessed of all those attributes the lack of which unfit man for the function of Government. Her very unfitness for the life of the Truth Seeker and the Teacher renders her per- fectly fitted for the functions of Government. Also in this field she will have the theatre where her distinctively feminine characteristics will re- ceive the highest development. Instead of the function of government debasing woman, and making her masculine, it rather tends to make her more feminine, for all practical life is the woman's natural field of action. It would seem that the experience of life should teach any one this, for the family where the mother does not exercise the discipline of the children, is a miser- able failure. There is no father who is fitted to discipline his children, for either his severity reaches the point of tyranny, or else he indulges his children until they are hopeless outlaws. Thus the paternal form of family government is in- variably a failure. This is due to the fact that the father, if he is a real man, dwells on the In- tellectual Plane of Life, and his function is to teach the children, but the mother is the one to discipline them. In other words, the father must train their minds, but the mother their morals.
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This should teach any one that the same qualities that fit woman for the fmiction of motherhood in the home should also fit her for National Mother- hood, for that is the only form of government that will ever promote the Moral and Practical advance of any nation. In other words, the only progressive nation is one where the Government is the Mother of all of the citizens, and also where every woman sees in herself a part of that National Mother. This mother element must be injected into government if it is to ever promote the moral welfare of the people, and the training in personal motherhood in the home is the most perfect training any woman could possibly have for the function of Universal Motherhood, which can alone fit one for the function of rulership. We are informed that the place of woman is in the home. To this we most heartily agree, but add that for the Woman of the Future, the home will be identical with the world, and her children will be all the suffering boys and girls, no matter how old, who require mothering, and also all of the bad boys and girls, without regard to age, who require discipline. I tell you, the Doll Woman is passing, and the woman who sees in Uiiiversal Motherhood her sphere of action is coming. When she gets here some of you lads who have talked so glibly about women keeping to their place while you had a gay time with some who were undoubtedly very much out of their place are going to get what is coming to you, and when you do I shall certainly tell you ''I told you so!"
In the Ancient Mysteries the Masculine was sjrmbolized by the Ear, which hears the Voices of Gods, while the Feminine was symbolized by the Mouth that speaks the Degrees.
From the above it will be seen that govern- ment is woman's sphere and that it is interfer- ence with her function for any man to vote or run
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for office I Strange as it may seem, the majority of intelligent men are recognizing this at the present time. We know this because it is grow- ing more and more difficult to get a man of any intelligence to run for office. The only men who want public office are those who cannot find a man's work to do and have to have something to occupy their time, but all who have the intelli- gence to do a man's work shun Politics as they would the plague. Also, the better element of the men are refraining from voting, while the wom- en, the majority of them, are going to the polls whenever they are given the vote. In the light of all this, it is to be seen that the intelligent ele- ment of the male population are voluntarily dis- franchising themselves, and this will lead in the end to the practical disfranchising of the sex wherever women have the ballot, for the reason that three-fourths of the vote cast is by the wom- en voters, and this will continue to increase, until in the end, the women will elect all the officers, and will in this way make the Laws. We will therefore have a Eepublican Matriarchy without any visible effort being made to bring it about.
The women will express their true Feminine Nature in Politics, and will transform the state of Society in accordance with the Practical Eea- son and Moral instincts of woman. In this way will be brought about the Moral Eegeneration of Society in the only way it is possible for it to be realized — ^through the assuming of Political Power by the Sex in whom the Instinct of Practi- cal Morality and Social Uplift is dominant. This will also work the Intellectual Regeneration of the Race, for it will Emancipate man from the Politi- cal Life and turn him back into his own sphere of Religion, Science and Philosophy. Man must emancipate woman in order that she may emanci- pate him and place him in his true sphere, where
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he can do a man's work, and not continue in the sphere of woman and have to keep doing wom- an's work.
From all this it will be seen that true progress is only possible in a Matriarchy, with a feminine Priesthood, This will be realized before many more years have passed, though, like the King- dom of Heaven, it cometh not with observation.