CHAPTER III.

THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE.
The woman of the past was consigned to a po- sition of subordination by the attitude of the male. This was not only the case in a social sense but in every other sense. From the days of the cave man, when she was the prey of the man who was stronger than she and who was therefore able to seize her by force and appro- priate her to his uses without in the slightest de- gree consulting her inclinations, down to the present day, she has been the prey of the male. This may not appear at the first glance, but if one will look at the history of the past he will see that all the way down the ages woman has been looked upon as the property of man, and has in the main acquiesced in this arrangement. She was held as his property in the olden days, and he held her through the strength of his arm. In the course of time he ceased to take her by brute force, but then there developed another institu- tion which was of equal detriment to the liberty of the woman. Her father was able to give her in marriage to whomsoever he would, and in a military civilization this meant that she would go to the one who wlas strong and brave in the military sense of the term. This was inevitable in a state of society where the only safety lay in the ability of one to defend himself and his friends, and where it was to the interest of every one to secure as many powerful friends as possi- ble. This being the case, it was incumbent upon the man to give his daughters to those who would
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in that way become powerful allies. The result was that his daughters became so many assets for the strengthening of his position. However, the time came when this system was a thing of the past, but still the woman w'as the property of the strong, for the reason that every woman sought protection, and in order to secure it she gave herself to the strong and the brave in order that they might protect her. Under this system the woman had no rights whatsoever, but was to all intents and purposes the property of her hus- band. Under the Roman law she was never a free citizen. So long as her father lived and she was not married she was under guardianship, and in the event of the death of her father while she was unmarried she must have a guardian, for the unmarried woman was an infant. In the event of her marriage she was merely the eldest child of her husband, and was subject to the same kind of discipline as the other children. The civil law provided that he might whip her whenever he deemed it necessary, so long as he did so in moderation. In other words she was a minor, no matter how old she might be. Under the com- mon law of England she had no existence after marriage, but her existence was completely merged in that of her husband. Therefore, a femme covert had no standing in the courts but was viewed simply as a part of her husband. This system made the husband responsible for the acts of his wife, and of course this meant that he should exercise disciplinary authority over her. In all of her experience at this time she was the property of her husband, and all the protection that she received was such as was given to prop- erty.
We see this idea of property expressed in the definition of adultery. We are told that it is not adultery to have sex commerce with an unmar-
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ried woman, but only with the woman who is the wife of another, hence adultery does not consist in any wrong that may be done to the woman, but in the deprivation of the husband of the exclusive use of the body of his wife. This of course means that adultery is a crime because it interferes with the property rights of the husband in the sex of his wife. We have, therefore, the idea that in marriage the wife has given over her sex to her husband as his property and that no one must in- terfere with it, and hence it is to be seen that to this day it is the opinion of the majority of the people that in marriage the woman becomes the private property of the husband. Take as an ex- ample the unwritten law of the Southern States. Briefly, this is the right of a man to slay the de- spoiler of his home ; but note, gentle reader, there is no unwritten law that authorizes the wife to slay the despoiler of her home ! There is but one conclusion to be drawn from this — the wife is the private property of the husband and he has a right to protect his property rights. Another in- teresting feature of this marriage question is the fact that no marriage is legally consummated un- til they have had sexual intercourse, and the re- fusal of one of the parties to have sexual inter- course constitutes ground for divorce. The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that the pur- pose of marriage is the sexual act.
This enables us to review the position of the woman of the past and see what her vocation has been. We expect a considerable measure of an- tagonism when we say that in all the ages of the historical period, so far as the vast majority of the races are concerned, and in every one of the Aryan nations at the present time the position to which society has consigned the married wom- an is that of the slave of her husband, and yet that is the absolute truth. All the time the wom-
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an has existed for the purpose of satisfying the sex desires of her husband, rearing his children, waiting upon him and amusing him. She is not a person in any sense of the word, but a satellite for her husband! It is true as We evolve the condition of woman's slavery has become more lenient, but nevertheless, she is at all times in this position where she is supposed to contribute to his pleasure. She is not supposed to have a mind of her own, but to take her opinions from the same source that she does her pin money! She^ is supposed to have the same religious con- victions as her lord and master, and in every way to say amen to whatever he does and says I Let us be quite plain in this matter. Woman is sup- posed to have a soul, yes, but it must not become individualized! It must be but the reflection of that of her husband. The married woman is not a personality; she is a man's wife. It is this po- sition of being a nonentity that has become so galling to woman. Again, she is not supposed to have any mind, but to be a bundle of emotions, and she is valued by man on account of her emo- tionalism. Man denies that she has mind because she is emotional, utterly failing to realize that his ideal of woman has been this very bundle of emotions, and that in order to render herself at- tractive to man she has had to cultivate her emo- tional nature so as to amuse him. In a word, woman has had to make of herself an actress and to live perpetually on the stage in order that she may amuse her owner. She has not dared to be herself, but must live out the part that has been assigned to her by the male population. And yet there are those who blame the stage character of woman and say she is inconsistent! How can she be otherwise when she is required to amuse all of the conflicting moods of an inconsistent manf
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But in all this time during which woman has been relegated to the vaudeville stage for the amusement of man there has been smoldering within her soul the spark of individuality. She has longed to be herself, to be an actress in the great world drama, and not simply in this domes- tic comedy, which is, however, a tragedy to the superior woman. In a word there has been op- erative the forces to evolve the woman soul. This has caused her to long for an opportunity to make her influence felt in the world's work. But every time she has sought to become the comrade and fellow worker of man she has met with a rebuff and has been told that she is a woman and must remain feminine. The ideal of the feminine has been the doll woman, who amuses man but does nothing in the evolution of society ; but the woman's ideal has ever been to become the wom- an of power, who takes her place in the great work of human evolution. Woman has been held to the physical and emotional planes of being, but she has longed to break the shackles and to enter the higher realms and demonstrate that she has the elements of mind and soul as well as body and emotion. This slumbering woman soul has at last broken through the shell and has burst forth in a flame that is destined soon to devour the old form of the conventional woman, and out of the ashes, phoenix-like, there will arise the Woman of the Future.
The woman of the past had been consigned to the function of physical motherhood, and this has had its value, of course, but the trouble has been that the mother-instinct^ in woman is so large that it fills her entire being, and there has been one instinct that has been suppressed all the time, that of soul motherhood, and also that of Universal Motherhood. The smoldering fires of soul motherhood and of Universal Motherhood
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have at last been fanned into a blaze, and we see the awakening of the Woman of the Future. She has slept in the Woman of the Past all the time, but until recent years has had little opportunity to make herself manifest. When woman was ad- mitted to the universities and was permitted to receive the advantages of the higher education the knell was in reality sounded for the Woman of the Past, but the force that has contributed more than anything else to her undoing has been the spreading of occult knowledge, for woman has intuitively recognized that in the occult sciences was the means of her awakening. This study has developed her interior principles and has caused her to come into her own, and being, as it is, free from theological dogmatism, and dealing only in spiritual law, it has not shackled her soul, but has developed it along strictly femi- nine lines, so that she has developed a feminine soul and mind. Thus has the eternal feminine been awakened within and there it has found emancipation from social and priestly bondage, and the result is the Free Woman. Man has rec- ognized this, and therefore we have the relentless persecution of the occultists, for they are the emancipators of woman, and the men who profit by her intellectual and spiritual enslavement can, of course, never forgive the occultists, who have invaded their sacred property rights. This per- secution will last until the Woman of the Future has taken them under her protection and has in this way repaid the debt which she owes to her Uberators. Is it any wonder, then, that the awak- ening woman takes to occultism like the duck takes to water, and that there are ten women stu- dents of occultism to one man? This fact also leads to the development of soul among women in a very much higher degree than among men, for it is the woman who delves into those studies which can alone awaken the element of soul. In
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the past the occult sciences and metaphysics have been the exclusive domain of man, with the result that it has been in him that the element of soul has been developed, while the woman has lived in the emotions; but now that woman is the one who is turning to occultism and metaphysics it is she that is developing the element of soul, and thus the pole of soul is becoming manifested in the woman, while that of intellect is manifesting in the man. This will mean that in the future woman will embody soul, while man will embody mind, and the emotional plane will in the course of time be vacated.
The Woman of the future is being awakened and she is destined to appear in full force before many years have gone by. She demands first of all that she shall be a free soul ; that she shall be recognized as having an individuality that is to be developed for her own sake; that she does not exist for the sake of man, but that she has a right to the full expression of her individuality, and that there is no institution sacred enough to be permitted to interfere with the full and com- plete expression of that individuality; that in marriage she shall be the co-partner of her hus- band, for the purpose of expressing life, and that she shall have an equal voice with him in such ex- pression; that she shall become a mother only when she can bring fine children into the world, and that she is to be the sole judge of such mat- ters; that she is to be the guardian of her chil- dren and is to rule in the home. She also de- mands that the relationship in the home is to be reversed, and instead of her adjusting herself to the wishes of her husband that he shall adjust himself to her ideals. In a word, she proposes to set the standard of life and to see that her hus- band lives up to it. For a long time she has held an ideal of what man should be, but now she de-
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mands that her man must become the realization of that ideal. She will not be told, as has the woman of the past, that women know nothing about what a man should do, but will insist that it is for her to say what he shall be and that he must accommodate himself to that standard. Also she will insist upon full and complete intel- lectual and spiritual liberty at all times, and will not in the slightest degree consent to sacrifice her ideals for the sake of her husband. She will, in fact, look upon marriage as an institution for the promotion of certain definite ends and will retain the right to dissolve the relationship the moment it ceases to conserve those ends. She will also retain the right to refrain from marriage if she sees in the unmarried life her true vocation. She will insist upon entering every field of effort and there introducing the feminine element and mak- ing it the expression of her ideal.
Of all the characteristics of the Woman of the Future, however, the strongest is the instinct of Universal Motherhood. She sees that the world is not what it should be ; that society is the result of the Woman of the Past ; that that woman has given birth to it while in bondage, and that it is therefore the child of the bondwoman. This is not the state of society that will please her. She will realize that to have the true state of society it must be bom again. It must become in this way the Child of the Free Woman. She there- fore feels the urge to mother society and give it birth and in this way bring about the regenera- tion of society. Her Universal Mother instinct prompts her to bear the new society. This is the true sign of the Woman of the Future. One asks us how is she to be distinguished from the Wom- an of the Past I Quite easily: Is she in travail with the Society of the Future, and, is she ready to be delivered! If so, she is the Woman of the
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Future. All the longing and devotion of this Woman of the Future is devoted to the Child in process of gestation, the Society of the future. It is for this reason that the Woman of the Fu- ture can not be a desirable element in the present social order, and she is never a satisfactory wife and is not at all times what one would expect in a mother. She has a great mission before her — the bearing of the future Social Orders; all of her attention is devoted to the great work of Uni • versal Motherhood and all other considerations must take second place. This Social Child to be is the darling of her heart, and on it is poured forth all of her affection. It is for this reason that she is not satisfactory to the present indi- vidualistic order, for she is too large for any such thing. She, the Woman of the Future, is the mother who is to bear the Future, and the mother in child bearing must devote all of her time and attention to the work of bearing the child. Why does the Woman of the Future seek the ballot? Because in a republic it is assumed to be the key to power and she seeks the power to usher in that future order that is to be her Child. She must have the means of making her ideal a reality. Why is she militant? Because she wants the ballot and the power which she as- sumes will come with it, and she has come to the conclusion that she will only get it by taking it. Why is she not willing to wait for the gallantry of the men to give it to her? Because after wait- ing for 13,000 years without results she is get- ting a little impatient for that which does not ap- pear. Besides, what she wants is not the ballot, but freedom, for only the Free Woman can give birth to the Free Society and to Free Children, and it is as the Mother of the Future that she is demanding this sovereignty; what the men give to her will not change her station as the Doll Woman, but what she takes by the strength of
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the appearance of men in the plural form, as the Individualized aspects of the First Man, and these in time fell into incarnation; thus it was that man was incarnated in the physical form. But there is in this matter one point which we must never lose sight of. While it is true that The Man descended into the Harmony and broke right through it, thus falling into incarnation, it is equally true that He remained above the Har- mony, in the Formative Region or Eegion of the Eighth ; thus there was a dual aspect of the Man. He abode in the Eegion of the Eighth as the An- thropos or The Man, and he was also incarnate as the race of men. Thus we see there are men on the earth, and there is also The Man in the Begion of the Eighth, or the Formative Sphere, and it is His function to direct the process of its Formations, for this Man is the Form of Light and life; this, however, is not a form of corpo- reality, but the Pure Form of the Light. This Man is closely identified with the Cup which was sent down into the Kosmos filled with Mind. As this Man, the Anthropos was the Lnage of All-Father- Mind, who is Male-Female; He is likewise Male- Female, the same as All-Father-Mind; thus the Anthropos is quite as much The Woman as The Man.
The Son of Man doctrine had its root in the Hermetic teaching. There we are taught that it is possible through a course of discipline for a man to lift himself, through Eenunciation, above the harmony of the Seven, and, reaching the Ee- gion of the Eighth, to douse himself in the Cup, that is, in Mind, so that being baptized in Mind he will enter the nature of The Man, or the An- thropos. This will make of him a Son of The Man, so that he will partake of Light and Life, that is, of Mind, and not simply of Eeason and Intellect. It is thus that the Gnosis is attained.
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This is the true baptism, that is, the baptism into Mind of Gnosis which comes as the result of the at-one-ing of man with The Man. The entire Gnostic Plan of Salvation was based upon this baptism in Mind. Faith was supposed to lead one upward through the Harmony until he had reached the point where he could become bap- tized in Mind, and there becoming completely merged iq The Man, he would embody Mind, and thus attaiQ Gnosis, or Pure Knowledge, rather than Faith; thus the consummation of Faith was the Gnosis of the Mind, or Divine Light. Such were the true Gnostics or the Sons of the Man. According to the Christian sect of Hermetics, it was held that Jesus Christ was the physical in- carnation of The Man, in the sense that the Man as Light and Life or Primordial Mind was per- fectly incarnate in the physical body of Jesus; thus he was the Christos, or the man anointed with Mind. According to their conception, if one was individually united with Christ there would result a transformation of his entire being, so that as a result of such union he would attain Union with The Man, or Mind, and thus become a Son of The Man. When the great Hierophant, Elder Brother Paul, admonished the brethren to have in them that same Mind which was also in Christ Jesus, he meant that they should be doused in Mind, and through Union with The Man should become Sons of The Man, having the Primordial Mind in them. It was in this sense of the incarnation of The Man that Jesus was called the Son of The Man. However, we must guard against the illusion of assuming that he was to be the only Son of The Man, for such was not the case. He was to be the first-born among many brethren, that is, he was the First Son of The Man, through whose ministry there were to be bom many Sons of The Man, that is, many were to be doused in Mind and in that way to be bom
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of Mind, as the Sons of The Man. The entire Christian religion was founded upon this con- ception.
Now, as previously stated, there is the greatest distinction between Man and men. Men are sub- ject to the Harmony, and to the forces of that Nature devoid of Eeason, but The Man is entire- ly above all of those things, and is, in fact, the ruler of them all, being the Divine Mind mir- rored in the Formative Sphere, or the Eegion of the Eighth. Therefore, the Sons of The Man will likewise be above all the laws growing out of the Harmony, and will be the embodiment of the Primordial Mind or the Gnosis. Thus there are two races, the Men and the Sons of The Man, the former subject to the nature devoid of Eeason and the latter entirely above it.
But it must be borne in mind that the Anthro- pos is as much The Woman as The Man, hence it has a Feminine nature, quite as important as its Masculine nature. Therefore, we have to deal with the Archetypal Woman as much as with the Archetypal^Man. In times past all efforts of the Gnosis have been to bring forth the Sons of The Man, and hence there has been a Masculine re- ligion and a Masculine Gnosis, Those bom of Mind have developed the Masculine aspect of Mind, and hence The Man has in many instances been individualized among men, but the Femi- nine aspect, The Woman, has not been individual- ized. However, we have now come to the point of change. In this Aquarian Cycle the Feminine aspect of the entire Universe has been awakened, and in this awakening of the Kosmic Feminine the Archetypal Woman has not escaped. The change in the polarity of vibration has touched her, and she is awakened to action. The Cup which All-Father-Mother-Mind sent into the Kos-
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mos is in reality Feminine, for the Cup is noth- ing other than the Womb in which the Children of Mind are to be Gestated. This is also the Holy Grail, the receptacle of the Blood of the Son of The Man. The Blood of the Son of the Man is in reality the Blood from which the sons of The Man are to be engendered. Blood is the equivalent of Water in the Mysteries and is one of the Two Truths, that is, it is the Substance out of which the Child is to be formed, and is in the mystical sense the Mother ^s Blood from which the devel- opment of the Foetus is made possible. Thus the Grail is in reality the Uterus of The Woman, from which the Children of The Man are to be bom. Again, this Woman is Brunnhilde, who slum- bered in her armor until awakened through love, but who was subjected by the might of Sigfried, The Man, and then given in marriage to the mas- culine element in the Harmony rather than to The Man who had subjugated her. Thus in times past The Woman has been in bondage to the Na- ture devoid of Eeason. She has been, therefore, desolate and forsaken by The Man.
At last, however, she has awakened and has become militant. She will no longer obey the un- derling to whom she has been united, and she even declares that she is in every way the equal of The Man. Not only that, but she asserts that in this Feminine cycle she is to take precedence oyer him. The Woman has now arisen in her might, and she is determined to give birth to Daughters as she has in times past bom Sons. This Race which she is bringing forth at this time, and which will be brought forth in increas- ing numbers as the years go by, in fact through- out the entire length of the present cycle, are the Daughters of The Woman.
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first place, they are the Femimne aspect of the Archetypal Man or Anthropos. They are the same as the Sons of The Man, only they are the individualization of the Feminine pole just as the Sons of The Man were the individualization of the Masculine pole of the Anthropos. They are the perfect Feminine, but the Feminine above all the influences of the Harmony. They are the Feminine aspect of Primordial Mind. As they are bom of Mind and The Woman, they are above the Harmony and hence are devoid of any of its influences. None of the Seven Energies of the Eulers manifest in them, and hence all the qual- ities growing out of those Seven Energies are lacking in these Daughters of The Woman. What are the Seven Energies which are lacking in the souls of the Daughters of The Woman! The En- ergy of Growth and Waning, Device of Evils, the Gmle of Desires, Domineering Arrogance, Un- holy Daring and the Eashness of Audacity, Striv- ing for Wealth, Ensnaring Falsehood, AU of these attributes and every characteristic that flows from them will be entirely wanting in this Eace of the Daughters of The Woman. What will be their dominant characteristics I The Feminine aspect of Gnosis or Primordial Mind. At this spectacle the world stands aghast. What ! a race of women without Evil Devices, Desires, Domineering Arrogance, Eashness or Audacity, Lust for Wealth and Fine Feathers, the Growth and Waning of Moods, a Eace of Women who are Logical and Consistent and who always tell the Truth! Yes, that is exactly what we are to ex- pect in this New Femininity, the Daughters of The Woman. Not only this, but a Eace of Women w!ho are ruled by Mind and not by Emotion or Sentiment; a womanhood above the power of Sensation, and Sentient Love as well as all Emo- tional Love. This New Womanhood will express their Love as the manifestation of Primordial
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Mind. It will be Kosmical and impersonal. Their one impulse will be to express the nature of The Woman, their Mother, and to act as her Daugh- ters. AH their interest in one of the Human Eace will be to bring her into this estate as a Daughter of The Woman. In a word, they will all be dominated by the one impulse of Mother- hood, but not Physical Motherhood, but rather the Spiritual Motherhood that will cause the ob- ject of their love to be born of The Woman; thus they will seek to Mother all with whom they come in contact, and in this way cause them to be bom of The Woman. If they permit themselves to love a man it will not be in the sense of a wife in the conventional sense, but rather as a sort of fairy godmother who is to Love him into that state where he will, all unconscious to himself, become doused in Mind and thus will be bom as a Son of The Woman. Thus it is to be seen that every Daughter of the Woman sees in herself not a woman but a Daughter of The Woman, and, therefore, one above all social laws, one who is to concern herself with the bringing to perfection of the Children of The Woman. Through this Race humanity will in time all be born of Mind, and thus as Children of The Man- Woman they will attain that state above the Harmony, the Re- gion of the Eighth, and the Race of Men will dis- appear and give place to the Race of Man, which is quite another story. This is the meaning of the Daughters of The Woman T^^ho are upon us.
CHAPTEE V.
THE SUPER-WOMAN.
We have heard much about the Super Man,* but so far nothing has been said about the Super Woman; yet it will at a glance become evident to any sane person that it is impossible for us to develop the Super Man as a type without first having the Super Woman as the Mother of the Super Man that is to be produced. The whole difficulty has been that humanity has grown so used to the idea that woman is of little import- ance that he does not take her into account when it comes to any estimate of the biological factors that are essential to the realization of a new type. And yet, it is, we believe, universally admitted that the procreative influence which the mother exercises upon the foetus while it is in the womb is of greater importance, so far as the character of the child is concerned, than all other influences combined. If this is admitted, it will follow that the time to produce the Super Man is while the foetus is in the womb. It is evident the mother can only contribute to the molding of the foetus those qualities that are active in her during the period of her pregnancy; hence she can only bring forth a child of like nature to herself. This leads us to the conclusion that if the Super Man is ever to be bom he must have a mother who is already a Super Woman to bear him. Of course we do not deny that there are at the present time Super Men who have evolved themselves into this state after their birth, but they are the ex- ceptions and not the rule. At the same time we hold that in all probability a Super Woman who
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is a mother will bear children who are Super Men, and where the father is a Super Man and the mother a Super Woman this becomes well nigh certain. In view of this it becomes a mat- ter of the greatest importance that we have a number of Super Women to become the mothers of Super Men and of other Super Women, so that the type of Super Humanity may in time be realized.
Having come to the conclusion that Super Women must bear the Super Men if a race of Su- per Men is ever to be realized, and all agreeiag that such a race of Super Men is most desirable, we must ascertain how we are to produce the Su- per Woman. Obviously, where there are no Su- per Women to bear daughters who will be Super Women at birth, we must resort to some method to evolve as many of the women as possible into Super Women, and the question is, how is this to be accomplished f We cannot start out to evolve the Super Woman as an Abstraction, hav- ing no clear idea as to what we are to produce. We must agree as to the attributes of the Super Woman, and then proceed to evolve these attri- butes in the best manner we can. The question is then, what do we mean when we talk of the Su- per Man I Wherein does he differ from the Man? The answer to this question will give us direction as to the manner in which we are to go about the development of the Super Woman.
G. B. Shaw tells us that we know absolutely nothing about what the Super Man will be like; but we take issue with him there as well as upon several other points. Every Evolution- ist who admits the possibility of a Super Man must admit that the Super Man will be the next step above the Human Kingdom in the Evolu- tionary Process, just as Man was the next step above the Animal Kingdom. This being the case.
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it follows that if we can ascertain the specific fac- ulties that distinguish man from the Animal Kingdom, we will be in a position to determine with a fair degree of accuracy what the next step in Evolution will be that will produce something entirely above man in the scale of Evolution. It therefore devolves upon us to review the course of previous Evolution, so as to determine the dis- tinction between the Human Kingdom and the Kingdom that will evolve out of it. At the same time we must bear in mind that this distinction will be psychological rather than anatomical; therefore, we must strive to understand what are the latent faculties in man, that, when developed,
will place him on a Super Human Plane.
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We find that in the Elemental Kingdom every- thing is devoid of all elements and attributes save those of Growth and Decay. In the Mineral Kingdom Sensation was developed, but there is no power of Perception and Will. In the Vegeta- ble Kingdom Perception and Will were de- veloped. In the Animal Kingdom, Perception evolved Discrimination, or the power of Concrete Thought, and of learning from Experience, but there was no faculty for Abstract Thinking and Pure Consciousness. What then distinguishes man from the animal creation! Exactly the next step in Evolution. With the development of the power of Abstract Thought, the Animal evolved into the man. Man is, therefore, the one in whom the power of Abstract Thought has been awak- ened and who is able to think apart from Con- crete Experience. His mentality is therefore dual. He lives in the realm of the A Posteriori and also in that of the A Priori, being capable of thinking from the standpoint of Sensuous Ex- perience, and also in pure Abstractions. It is this latter power that distinguishes the man from the Animal Evolution. At the same time it is to
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be borne in mind that the human method is main- ly Inductive, or else all results are deduced from the Categories of the Mind. As yet, the power of rising entirely above the plane of Experience and attacking the Eealm of Truth direct has not been evolved. This is the function of the Super Man.
The Super Man must be able to entirely dis- pense with all Sensuous Experience, and enter the Eealm of Pure Truth, and deal with it di- rectly. To make this clear, it must be borne in mind that there is a Eealm of Pure Ideas, depend- ing in no sense upon the thinking of anyone, but in a sense self-existent. The Logos is the proc- ess of Kosmic Analysis, while the Formative Mind is the process of Kosmic Synthesis, the two poles being the two principles of the Kosmic Sea- son. As these are both processes of Pure Idea- tion, it follows that Ideas are continually being bom in the Kosmos and those Ideas constitute the World of Pure Ideas that Plato speaks about. In order that one may draw truth from this Eealm of Kosmic Ideas he must evolve some Fac- ulty which will enable him to directly apprehend those Ideas, He cannot find them through any amount of Eeasoning from the Data accumulated through the Senses. The first step on the way of becoming the Super Man is therefore the devel- opment of some faculty that will enable one to directly apprehend Pure Kosmic Ideas. That Faculty is Pure Intuition, the function of which is direct cognition of Pure Kosmic Ideas, Next, Pure Analysis must be developed, so that he can analyze those Ideas and in this way reduce them to Ultimate Truth. This Pure Analysis is mere- ly the faculty that unites the Super Man to the Lo- gos, for it is the operation of the Logos in his own Eeason. Next, Pure Synthesis must be de- veloped, so that he will be able to synthesize the
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result of his Analysis, and thus construct a Ea- tional Kosmos, and in this way reach an Organon of Truth entirely independent of the testimony of the Senses. There is one other attribute of the Super Man, and that is Compassion or Imper- sonal Love. This is merely the operation of Truth in terms of Will. It is in no sense Emo- tional, but is merely a Mode of Will that is the active manifestation of Eeason and is never in- consistent with it. When Piire Intuition, Pure Analysis, Pure Synthesis and Pure Love have all been evolved within the soul and act simulta- neously Man has evolved into Super Man, aad is Man no longer.
The Super Womaa must be the same as the Su- per Man, only he is the Masculine type, while she is the Feminine type of Super Humanity. The Logos is Masculine, the Formative Mind Femi- nine; therefore, Analysis is a Masculine attri- bute, w'hile Synthesis is a Feminine attribute. This being the case, the Reason of the Super Woman must be Synthetical rather than Analyt- ical. The woman, on whatever Plane she may function, is essentially a mother. The function of a mother is to give Form, not only in a physical sense, but in the Emotional, Mental and Eational fields. Woman's Mind and Eeason is, in the very nature of things. Formative. Hence, she will not so much seek out New Truths as she will give Or- ganic Form to the Truths already known. Also she will be more Intuitive than Eational, and the Will or Love Principle will act in a Formative manner. She will, in a word, mother Ideas, and give them definite shape for the needs of Hu- manity. She will bring them to birth in terms of Human Consciousness. These will be the princi- pal characteristics of the Super Woman. We might at the same time state that the majority of the characteristics of the Daughters of the
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Woman will characterize the Super Woman as well.
Of all her characteristics, however, the strong- est will be that of Universal Motherhood. She exists not so much as a personality, in the ordi- nary sense of the word, as the mother who is to bring forth the Super Humanity. She is the mother of a New Type, and by reason of her Synthetic Eeason, she is bringing forth a sort of Archetypal Form of Man, a Thought Form, so to speak, that is destined in the course of time, to materialize in the forms of Super Men and Super Women. In this sense, every Super Woman is the Spirit- ual or Soul Mother of the Race of Super Men that is to appear. Thus her Motherhood is Uni- versal, a sort of Soul Motherhood rather than the particular Physical Motherhood which we are ordinarily familiar with. This leads us to the conclusion that she does not have to be a mother in the physical sense in order that she may be a mother of the Super Humanity, though undoubt- edly many will give physical birth to Super Men and Women. But it is not only in this universal sense that the Super Woman is to be the Mother of Super Men and Women; she will also mother particular men and women, so that they shall be- come Super Men and Super Women, and that without bringing forth in the physical sense.
To make this latter point clear w^e must bear in mind the Dynamic Power of Thought. Thought and Eeason, when permeated by Will, become a Creative Power, and this is particularly the case when it is the Feminine Thought and Will, for both act Formatively. The Eesult is, every wom- an is, every moment of her life, creating types, or Life Germs, the strength of which depends up- on the amount of thought and will that is con- centrated into her thinking and feeling. Now, as the Super Woman lives on an Octave above
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that of Humanity, the intensity of her Idea and Will must be much greater than that of the wom- an. The result is, she will be continually creat- ing types that will be more dynamic than those created by any other people ; hence they will find Incarnation in human form by reason of the fact that they will be more powerful than Karma, and will in this way transform the Karma into their own likeness, so that the child that is bom will derive more of his character from the type that was incarnated in him than from either lus past Karma or Heredity or even Pro-creation. In a word, the woman who bore him will be the mother of his body, but the one who created the type will be his soul mother. Thus the Super Woman must be the mother of souls rather than of bodies. Thus the future generation will to a great extent be mothered by Super Women.
There is another aspect of the subject, how- ever, that we must never lose sight of. The vast majority of the human family is negative rather than positive, and therefore their minds are sub- ject to a great deal of influence from stronger and more positive minds. Also, the Subconscious Mind is at all times amenable to Suggestion, which mei^s that the mentalities of the vast ma- jority are capable of being molded by the strong- ly developed Feminine Mind, and the same ap- plies to the Beason, the Emotional Nature and the Will. The Super Woman, therefore, simply by the process of Synthetic Reasoning and the exercise of her Will, is molding the Individual Beason and Will of many individual men and women ; in a word she is molding the souls of other people, so that they will in time become the souls of Super Men and Women. She is, therefore, con- tinuaUy engaged in the act of gestating the souls of living men and women. When this process has reached its consummation, and their souls have
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been completely reformed, so that they are the souls of Super Men and Super Women, they will be bom on the Soul Plane as Super Men or Su- per Women, and thus the Super Woman becomes the Soul Mother of men and women now living on the earth. One Super Woman is quite capable in the course of one life of bearing a thousand such Soul Children, who, after this Spiritual Birth, will be her children in a much greater de- gree than one's Physical Children are her chil- dren. All that has been stated relative to the birth of children on the Soul Plane is also true of the Mental and Astral Planes, only it is the Thought of the Super Woman acting upon the mind and hence the Mental Body of the one to be reborn, that causes the New Birth on the Mental Plane and it is her Emotions and Will, acting upon the Emotions and Will of the one to be re- bom, that causes the transformation of the As- tral Body to the point where it may be said to be born again. As soon as any of the Principles have been so transformed through this Molding Process as to partake of the nature of the Super Woman who has exercised this influence, she may be said to have given birth to the man or woman on that Plane, and when all of those processes have been completed, and he has become the Su- per Man to all intents and purposes as a result of such transformation, she has given birth to him as a Super Man and he is to all intents and purposes her child. This activity may go on, and a Super Woman may give birth to hundreds of Super Men and Super Women, without knowing the identity of one of them. However, this is of no importance; the all important thing is the birth of Super Men and Super Women.
Realizing the function that the Super Woman is to play as the mother of Super Humanity, and that in so many different ways, we can see at a
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glance that the all important work for the pres- ent is the development of as many Snper Women as possible. Perhaps the most pleasing featnre of this entire Law is the consolation that it offers to childless women and women who are vii^ins, and who yet have the mother instinct very strong and long to bear children. In this way they can give birth to innnmerable Sonl and Mind Chil- dren who will be infinitely more their children than their physical children wonld be. This they can do and yet never live on the sex plane at all, Verily, the children of the Desolate Woman shall be more nmnerons than those of the married wife.
It must also be borne in mind that this process of Sonl Motherhood can be deliberately practiced if a Super Woman cares to do so. That is, she can enter Mediation for the deliberate purpose of accomplishing this function of Soul Motherhood, in which case the results will be much quicker, and at the same time much more powerful, than where she accomplishes the function unconscious- ly. In all other respects, the law and the pro- cedure is the same in the two cases. No one, who is a Super Woman in the sense outlined in the above, should hesitate to accomplish this work on any conscientious grounds, for in doing this she is making the Super Man and the Super Woman possible as a type, thereby taking the next step in Evolution beyond that of mere men and women.