CHAPTER VI.

THE SEED OP THE WOMAN.
There is much of the profoundest Hermetic Wisdom contained in the opening chapters of Genesis that, of course, has not been grasped by those not familiar with the Hermetic Doctrines underlying the statements. One passage in par- ticular that we wish to call your attention to is where the Lord is represented as saying to the Serpent, when the Curse was placed upon him, that He would put enmity between him and the woman, and between his seed and her seed, and that the Seed of the Woman should bruise the head of the Serpent. Mark you, it is not the Seed of the Man, but the Seed of the Woman that is to bruise the head of the Serpent. The Christians think that this Seed of the Woman is Jesus Christ, but it is evident that he did not bruise the head of the Serpent no matter what they may ex- pect him to do in the future. The entire matter will become clear when we understand the mean- ing of the Serpent and the nature of the Fall of Man. I wish to state in the first place that Eve is not a woman in the sense in which this is ordi- narily understood, but is in reality the entire body of the womanhood of the Second Race after the separation of the Sexes. At this time hu- manity had no Gross Physical body, but lived in the Etheric or Magnetic Body as their lowest Vehicle of Consciousness. The Serpent of the story is the Kundalini Force, i. e., the Magnetic Force that accumulates in the Sacral Plexus, at the base of the Spinal Column. In other words,
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it is the Sex Force that has been left over after the needs of the body have been supplied.
The Tree of Life is the 144,000 Nadis radiating from the Navel, the Navel being the root, the Umbilicus the trunk and the diverse Nadis the branches of the tree. That is to say, those Nadis, which are the currents of magnetism flowing to every portion of the body and directing every function, constitute the Tree of Life when the Sex Force or the Kundalini Force flows into the Um- bilicus and vitalizes the Nadis with its power. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the system of Nerve Currents when the Sex Force is turned outward in the form of Sensa- tion. Of course, it is to be borne in the mind that at the time of which we speak there were no Gross Bodies, but only the Etheric Body and hence there were no nerves and no Umbilicus, but the centers of action existed which corresponded to those physical channels as we have them at the present time. The Garden of Eden is the Etheric Realm in which man lived at that time, he not yet having been degraded to the Plane of Gross Mat- ter. The tempting of Eve means the awakening of the Kundalini Force in Woman so that it was thrown outward and produced Sexual Sensations of a physical nature. The result was that woman led man into the act of sexual conjunction on the Physical Plane, which was the act of eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This act turned the Serpentine Force outward through the sexual centers, so that it expressed itself in the form of physical sensations. This was the sin which brought about the fall. As a result, they were provided with Coats of Skin, that is, they having turned their Creative Force into the Outward Realm, developed Physical Bod- ies, and thus grew skins. It was in this way that the Race descended into the physical form and
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became the Third Race. The explusion from Eden was the degradation from the Ethereal Reahn into the Physical Earth Plane of existence.
We come now to the curse of the Serpent. He is the Kundalini or Sex Force, mind you, and the degradation of this Serpent was the confining of the Sex Force to the region of the Physical Body, so that it could only express itself through the Outer Senses. It has been this degradation of the Sex Force that has held woman in bondage for so long, for the degradation of Sex is the mark of her bondage, and it is impossible for woman ever to be free so long as Sex is bound to the bodily senses. This is what has constituted the enmity between her and this sex principle, for she has seen no way in which it might be separated from the body. This bondage has continued all the way down the ages, and thus, generation after gen- eration, we have seen the heel of the woman's Seed bruised by the Serpent, that is, all of our physical defects are the result of the outward ex- pression of Sex and the same is true of all our miseries and heartaches. At last, however, it is promised that the Woman is to bear Seed that will crush the head of the Serpent and in this way liberate the race from this dominance, which will mean triumph over the body, and the eleva- tion of the race back to the Ethereal Realm whence they descended.
Obviously the Seed that is to bruise the head of the Serpent is not the same that had its heel bruised by the Serpent, though it is here spoken of as though it were. Furthermore, it is not some one person, but rather a type of humanity that is to be bom of the woman, or rather of women. In a word, it is a new Race that is to triumph over the Serpent and partake of the Tree of Life. In this connection we are to bear in mind the state-
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mont in Rovolation, **He that overcometh shall havo riglit to the Tree of Life and enter in through the gates into the City.'* He that over- oomoth 18 the one tliat overcomes the Serpent, or niastora this Sex Force and elevates it, and that will 1)0 the very act of partaking of the Tree of Life, and will bring him back into Eden, which is the same as tlie l^ity of God, We then have the promise of a Race to come who will overcome the bondagt> of Sex and partake of the Tree of Life, and it is this Savior Race that is to save the world from the Curse, One thing, however, that we must take into consideration is that this Seed must be born ; they cannot create themselves ; fur- thermore, they cannot be born in the usual man- ner, for if so, they would be partakers of the fallen condition. As they are to be free from the effects of the outward manifestation of Sex, they cannot be begotten in that way. They must be bom without physical copulation, and also with- out the usual sensations pertaining to the physi- cal expression of Sex, In other words, their birth must be the result of the Sex Force of the mother being turned inward. This, of course, cannot be accomplished in conjunction with a man, and therefore there is no way by which they may be born physically as we see children bom at present.
There is but one way in which it is possible for this result to be realized. This Seed of the Wom- an must be born in people who are already living on earth, so that they will become Twice Bom; in a word, it is the Regenerate Seed and not the Seed of Generation that is to crush the head of the Serpent. How is this to be brought about? We must bear in mind that in the case of woman, all of the Interior Principles act Formatively, that is, there is a Formative Process going on all the time within the diverse energies of her being.
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These Energies we might describe under the com- mon name of her Will Force, and this Formative Process as the Will to Form. This Formative Aspect is the expression of her Ideas, Thoughts and Emotions, and thus all her Ideas, Thoughts and Emotions express themselves Formatively. The result is, the entire life of woman is a Cre- ative Life, as all her Life Force is creatively ac- tive at all times. In a word^ her Life Force is but a Process of Creative Activity. Owing to the fact of her living on the Sex Plane, the average woman makes use of this Creative Energy only in the Generation of offspring. However, when a woman ceases to generate and begins to con- serve her Sex Force, and to draw it upward in the Regenerative Life, her Creative Energy accu- mulates and the Sexual Centers become Centers for the storing up and Radiation of this Creative Energy. When her Creative Energy has been Regenerated her Sexual Centers are merely the instruments of her Astral Sex and Creative En- ergy, which operates through them.
Owing to the tendency of the Creative Energy to radiate from the Centers where it has accum- ulated, a woman who is leading the Regenerate Life will be sending streams of this Creative En- ergy through the Astral Lighl^ magnetizing it with her Creative Energy. Those streams of Creative Energy will come in contact with the Astral Bodies of men and women and, acting Formatively upon them, will transform them to such an extent that they will pass through a process of Gestation, and will in the end be alto- gether different to what they were before they were acted upon by this Creative Energy. In this way there will transpire within them a process very similar to that of the Gestation of the Foetus, so that they will in reality be bom again. This work of Regeneration is the peculiar func-
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tion of women leading the Regenerate life. No man can accomplish this work. It is for this rea^ son that this Twice Bom Race are called the Seed of the Woman and not the Seed of the Man. When one has been Bom Twice in this way his Astral Body will have been completely transformed and regenerated and as a result it will express none of the Vibrations engendered by the outward sen- sations, and as the Astral Body is the Vehicle of Desire it will follow that he will never have any desire for Outward Sexual Sensations, hence there will be nothing to cause him to express Sex out- wardly. Not only so, but this will react upon the body so that in the course of time this will also be redeemed from physical generation. In this way there will be born a Race of people to whom the Regenerate Life will come naturally. It is to be borne in mind that every woman who leads the Regenerate Life will naturally express her Creative Energy in this way. At the same time there will be those who understand the task that lies before them as mothers of the Woman's Seed, and they will therefore take upon them- selves the task and will project their Creative En- ergy for that specific purpose, and will therefore consciously create this new type of others, which does not mean that they will of necessity know who they are acting upon in this way. They will simply consecrate their lives to the work of creating the New Type of Humanity, and their Creative Energy will go forth for that specific purpose. It is in this way that the Seed of the Woman is to be produced, and as this Seed will crush the head of the Serpent, or, in other words, elevate the Sex Force above the Plane of the Body and bring it into subjection to the Intelli- gence, they will thus save themselves from the Fall, into Generation. As they are to be created by those women who lead the Regenerate Life, and who will therefore be the mothers of the
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saved, it follows that Woman is the Savior of humaiiity, and that salvation is impossible until there are enough women leading the Regenerate Life to create the New Seed. It is in this sense that woman is to be saved in child bearing, not in the bearing of physical children, but in this Occult bearing of Spiritual Children through the Regeneration of her Sex energy. Only through woman can this be accomplished, and therefore, man can only be saved by woman. They will bear Regenerated Daughters, as well as Sons, hence man has nothing to do with this re- demptive Seed, it being the Seed of Woman and in no sense the Seed of Man. Those women who are consecrating themselves to this work of Re- generating Humanity are, in deed and truth, the Saviors of the Race.