CHAPTER X.

VIBGIN MOTHERHOOD
As we have stated time and again, the essential nature of woman is maternal. Woman is living her truly feminine life only when she is acting as a mother. From this it will appear that every woman is making her life a failure except when she is fulfilling the function of motherhood. At the same time it must be borne in mind that every true religion has at all times held forth the ideal of virginity as far superior to the fam- ily life. This leads to one of two conclusions, either woman is as such an inferior being, and spiritual life can only be led in proportion as she forsakes her femininity, or else she can be a vir- gin and a mother at the same time. This latter course is the only one that is at all thinkable, therefore the true life of woman is to be found in virgin motherhood.
Woman is the true alchemist. Her body is above all things, the Vase of Art. The great mis- take that has at all times been made is the failure to realize the transcendent value of the body. We are ready to see the value of the soul, and the mind, and in some instances of the astral, but to see that the body itself is of value in a spiritual and regenerative sense, seems quite impossible. In our ignorance we have heaped shame upon the body, as a thing to be despised. This is all wrong. Eegeneration can only be attained through the re- demption of the body. This redemption of the body will be Brought about through its regenera- tion. The Sages teU us that their Matter is the
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most despised of all things. Now it must be borne in mind that the true Alchemy is that of Soul, not that of the symbol or the physical making of Gold. It is the Alchemical that we are after. The matter of Art is Carbon. Now in the Alchemy of Soul, it is the Carbon of the body that is the Matter of Art. The secret of Art, is to be seen in Putrefaction. When the mystery of Putrefaction is understood we have the key to our Matter. Through putrefaction Carbon Dioxide is set free in the body. What is more base than Carbon Epoxide? therefore, this is the Matter of Art. The body is the Vase of Art in which the Carbon Dioxide is placed for the work of the Second Mys- tery. Instead of Carbon Dioxide being a poison that should be eliminated from the body, it is the Key of Life, and without its presence life is im- possible. Carbon Dioxide is in reality that which builds the body. Carbo-Hydrates cause heat, and what is left after heat has been produced is Car- bon Dioxide. Fats also produce heat and energy in a sense, and what is left is Carbon Dioxide. Albumen produces tissue, that is, it is what tends to produce tissue building, and the residue is Car- bon Dioxide. The Elemental Salts are the Base that must be used as the foundation for tissue building. It is also that which acts as the accre- tive principle in the construction of the body. Ash goes to the bony structure, and again there is Carbon Dioxide left over. Why has it never oc- curred to any one to ask why it is that the dis- solution of all the elements results in the free- ing of Carbon Dioxide? This only goes to show that we do not stop to think of the very things that are under our very nose as it were. Carbon Dioxide accumulates in the body because the proc- ess of dissolution is not rapid enough to trans- mute it into Energy. In other words, it is the First Matter produced by Putrefaction, and is that which contains the Seed of Gold.
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Carbon Dioxide must be made to find its center of activity, and this is in the sacred Chalice. Find- ing its matrix in the Sacred Chalice, there must then be deposited in its midst the Mystic Egg. Woman produces the Mystic Egg and naturally deposits it in the Sacred Chalice where if the First Matter has accumulated in sufficient quantity, the Egg finds its Body of Corruption. Next, the Seed of Gold must be deposited within the Egg. This seed of Gold is evolved from the First Matter through the action of the Magic Staff. The Magic Staff has the greatest degree of sensitiveness of any organ of the feminine body. It is the seat of the greatest degree of sexual enjoyment pos- sible. When the physical sex relation is abstained from, the nerves, and that potency for sensation becomes the source of the greatest activity, and hence it is called the Magic Staff. This Veiled Magic Staff, which is at the entrance to the Sanc- tuary, by reason of its activity now secretes the Seed of Gold. This Seed fecundates the Egg. Then she must water the Egg and its other Matter with the Water of Life. This is generated within the Sacred Ganglion, the Straight and Narrow Way which leads from the entrance to the Sanctuary back to the mouth of the Sacred Chalice. When the Water of life has been secreted in the Sacred Ganglion and has been poured into the Sacred Chalice it acts upon the Seed of Gold so that it transforms the Mystic Egg into an Egg of Gold. In this way there is generated a great heat that begins to render the first matter volatile, so long as it is not disturbed by the Sterile Water of the male. At last the Living Water has rendered volatile all of the Contemptible Matter in the Chalice and the Egg has now become one of Golden Light. Next there springs forth from the body of the Priestess of Hymen her Fire which is Philosophical Oil of Sulphur. This enters the Volatile Matter in the Chalice and fixes it. The
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'Egg of Golden Light has become the Hermetic Oil of Gold. The Oil of Gold is then brought to the Month of Hathor, where it is transmnted into the Sacred Stone. The Sacred Stone finds its way into the Mount of Venns, where it is again dissolved into the Universal Medicine. This in turn rises to the roots of the Tree of Life, the Umbilicus. From here it being now volatilized and again fixed, becoming the Golden Apples in the Garden of Hesperides, and the juice of those Golden Apples entering the Sacred Double Foun- tain of Nutrition, it is there transformed into the Water of Projection. Thus does this Water of Projection wluch is the Pure Physical Energy project itself into all the Cells of the Body, and reconstruct them. This is the mystery of Car- bon Dioxide and the First Matter becoming the Water of Eegeneration for all the Cells of the body. It is in this way that the body is regener- ated. This process is one alone for the woman, for she alone has all the Natural Implements of Art. Also it is only the Virgin that can do it, for only she can produce the Water of Life in the Sacred Ganglion, and thus accomplish the Sacred Art and the Great Work in the Secret Places of her Feminine Sanctuary. Thus it is that the elements of Art are all the most despised of things, for all the steps in the Art are steps taken by the sex of the Virgin Woman. In this way is she able to regenerate herself.
After self regeneration, the body of the virgin woman becomes the Vase of Art indeed. She has been her own mother, and is now her own daugh- ter. At the same time she is more of a woman than she ever was. Hence, her nature is essential- ly that of a mother. When all waste is trans- muted into a new body, the energy set free will be far in excess of what she can possibly make use of. Her body being the Vase of Art, it must continually specialize aJl the diverse Elements of
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the Great Work, and hence they will accumulate. Up to this time, her body has been a Spring shut up, a Fountain Sealed. This Fountain of Youth and Spring of Life, continues to send forth its Waters of Life and Healing, until at last the Seal is broken. Then the Waters gush forth in streams of sexual Will Force, which becomes Rivers of Life. This is the natural result of the outflow- ing of the sex forces after their regeneration. They, however, being still feminine, continue to act formatively and creatively, and thus there is poured forth this Water of Transformation into all the Aethers. Thus all the Virgin Mothers pour their Fountains into the Great Sea, the Great Green which is the pool of Eegeneration, the Sea of Glass mingled with Fire. This is the Universal Virgin Mother. At the same time it must be borne in mind that this is but the Pool of Holy Water that comes from the overflowing Fountains of all the Virgin Mothers. It is the overflow from them all, and yet it is the one Pool. This is the Pool of Living Waters, into which many men and women are plunged, and af- ter bathing in its water they become regenerated and rising are bom of Water, being the recipi- ents of the Watery Initiation, they rise as the Virgin Bom.
At the same time these Waters being feminine, have a centripetal motion which reaching the center, there forms a whirlpool or great vortex. Tliere is a Feathered Serpent, called the Levia^ than, who likes to sport in this Pool of Living Water, and his favorite swimming place is the whirlpool or vortex. Sometimes he carries an Egg of Alchemical Gold in his mouth, and on some occasions the waters are so troubled by his move- ments that he drops the Egg in the Water. On such occasions it is drawn into the Vortex, and the Bays of the True Sun shining upon the Waters so warm them as to cause the Egg to hatch. The
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Celestial Nile flowing down from the Heavenly Waters of the Celestial Virgin mingle with the Living Waters, and chat which is hatched from the Golden Egg is rionrished by those Waters and gestated until it becomes a little Man of the Sun. This little Man of the Sun rides upon the back of a very friendly White Swan. She swims in the Living Waters until such time as there has been a Living Temple prepared for the little Man of the Sun. Then she swims ashore and, leaving the living waters, he enters the living Temple and straightway he becomes the Living Temple. He obtains thereby a Heart of Gold, the heart of the living temple being transmuted into Philosophical Gold, and thus he becomes the Dorado, bom of the Great Living Waters of the Virgin Mother. But all the Virgin Mothers say, he is my child, for my water flowed into the Pool, and he was hatched out of that water, therefore he was bom of my water, he is my son. But the Dorado says to the fighting Virgin Mothers, cease your clam- ors. Each one has been a fountain that has poured its extra water into the Pool of Regen- eration, and those waters have all become one water. I have been bom of that Water, truly I am the Son of the Water of Life, and there- fore I am the Son of each and ye are all my lit- tle mothers, but at the same time the Celestial Waters are my Virgin Mother, but so are ye all. I am the ideal Son of all time and all Eternity. Then those virgin mothers learn wisdom, and each says this one of the Golden Heart is indeed my son, but he is at the same time the son of each of you, of all of you, and yet of the Great Mother also. His heart he gained from the Sun, his mind came from the Feathered Serpent, his Life from the Great Mother, and his Will from the White Swan, but it is we who gave him form, and therefore he is our son also. He is our son and he shall be our Sun likewise. He shall take away our re-
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proach from us, for he was Virgin Bom. And then the Virgin Mothers with the Virgin Bom Son, the Golden Hearted One in their midst enter the Secret Sanctuary and the Last Mystery, the Still Mystery is consununated.
It is the Virgin Mothers who really give birth to a Dorado, and enable him to incarnate in a human form.
CHAPTEE XI.
DIVINE MOTHERHOOD.
A clear view of the Laws of Life will demon- strate that in their Essence all the Forces of Na- ture are Sex Forces. Li a word, all creative action is sex action, and the truth of the matter is that there is no Force which does not possess within itself the potency of self -creative action. That is to say, the forces of nature are not of a mechani- cal nature, requiring to be acted upon by some outside force, but on the other hand, are in fact capable of self-fecundation, or rather they are in continuous process of being fecundated from within themselves. This is absolutely true of the diifused forces of nature, and is latently true of those same forces when they have become em- bodied in organic form, but is not so as to their activity as a rule. The reason for this blunder on the part of organic nature is to be found in the process of its evolution into form, and in its evolu- tion through successive forms. The highest type of organic evolution is to be found in the human organism, and hence we would look for the highest development of the fecundity of the diverse forces there, but in this we are disappointed. The rea- sons for this mal-evolution we will try and state in what is to follow.
In the diffused states of their manifestations, there is no diflSculty in the way of their manifest- ing their creative potency, but in an organism, there must be special organs through which the diverse creative functions can operate. Creation here becomes a very complicated process and
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hence there must be developed a very complicated system of organs directly connected with the cre- ative function, owing to the complicated diversifi- cation of the functions connected with the creative act. In the human organism, creation consists in the diversification of the force which is to be organized, into a number of diverse specializa- tions, seeing that creation is here nothing other than the organization of the one force, or the di- verse forces into what may be termed an organism of that particular force, or those diverse forces. Each of the Generative Organs of the female plays its part in this process, that is, it performs a cer- tain portion of the work of such transformation, and the harmonious co-operation of all the func- tions of these organs results in the organization of the new form of life. In a word, the work of creation is a work of Synthetic Chemistry, and the sexual organism of the woman is the Chemical Laboratory in which this work is consummated. Now it is to be observed that the organs are spe- cialized for the performing of specific acts in this work of generation. While they are limited as to the particular portion of the creative work they may perform, they are in no sense limited as to the nature of the Substance and the Energy on which they may operate.
The work of creation in the case of the human Genatrix consists in taking an imdifferentiated Substance, and transforming its modes of forma- tion so as to produce from it, a very complicated synthesis of formative modes. It is, in a word, the transformation of a simple substance into a great- ly diiferentiated state of active, formative mani- festation. From this it will appear that there is no fundamental reason why the creative function should be limited as to the kind of Substance and Energy it may act upon. In other words, there is nothing in the fundamental constitution of the
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sexual organism of woman that would exclude it from doing creative work on any Plane of Nature, on which she herself might function. Why, then, is it that her creative function is confined to her physical body, and is not shared by her soul as well! It may of course be stated that the organs of generation are physical, and hence can only per- form physical acts ; but while it is quite true that the organs are physical, there is no reason why their functions should be of a purely physical nature. The truth of the matter is, that in order that the diverse Principles of man may work in harmony with the body on the Physical Plane, each of those principles, and also each of its spe- cific functions, has its Center of Action, some par- ticular organ in the physical body which it uses as its organ of manifestation. As these Princi- ples in man are but the Vehicles of Conscious- ness for the Abstract Principles in Nature, it fol- lows that in as far as man has individualized the universe, all the diverse manifestations of the uni- verse are present in his being. This will mean that in the complicated and multiform soul of man, every god and goddess that exists in the por- tion of the universe which a man has individual- ized, will find its abiding place. That is, the cor- respondent of every god and goddess in the world will be found as a part of the soul of a man or woman, in so far as he or she has individualized the Kosmos. As they exist in the soul, they must there assume the form of corresponding functions. These functions, in order that they may manifest on the physical plane and come into physical consciousness, must have physical organs through which they may function. This means that in the very nature of things, they must all center in defi- nite parts of the physical organism.
At this stage, we may ask ourselves, what is the function of Organic Life? There can be but one answer : It is for the purpose of individualizing
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the abstrax^t powers of nature, in other words the Gods and Hierarchies. This being the case, the man as the most highly specialized form of such organic life has for his function the most highly specialized and most complicated Individualiza- tion of these Powers. This work of individualiza- tion of that which is Abstract is, in the very nature of things, the purest essence of creation. In its root that is what organization consists in. Hence, such individualization is a creative act, it is an act of generation. This being the case, it is the sex- ual functions alone- that can do this, and as they are centered in the organs of generation, it is only through the functioning of the organs of genera- tion that any one can do this work of specializing the abstract powers of the Universe. Let us not be mistaken, all evolution is through differentia- tion, and evolution is creative, therefore, one grows and evolves in exact ratio to the degree in which the functions of their generative organs are differentiated. The range of ^ex functioning will exactly determine the scope of one's realiza- tion. It will indicate the size of his soul. But there is a still more momentous aspect to this sub- ject. Before any of the higher Principles of the soul, or any of their innumerable differentiations can be individualized, they must express them- selves through this creative function, that is, they must be differentiated through the functioning of the organs of generation. To do this, they must center in the organs of generation, and there be- coming active, they must force those organs to function under their impulse, and in this way to specialize them and thus individualize them. Un- til this point has been reached, and those aspects of the soul have been individualized through the functioning of the organs of generation, so far as those Powers are concerned, the soul has not been individualized, and the man has only the Group Soul of the Eace. And what is still more serious.
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this soul is present only in a state of latency, not having as yet become active and not having had the opportunity to awaken to consciousness. In other words, he has a soul in the same sense that the animal has one and in no other sense. The soul is only present in a state of latency until it begins to function, and this functioning of the soul begins only when it commences to function through the functioning of the organs of genera- tion in response to its impulses.
Until the powers of the soul commence to func- tion through the organs of generation, they re- main sterile, and therefore have absolutely no in- fluence on either the life or the destiny of the in- dividual. Such a person is an individual only on the Planes below that of the soul. In other words, if the organs of generation are active only on the physical plane, that is, if they only perform phys- ical functions, there is no individuality save that of the gross body, such an one lives the purely physical life. What then is the Spiritual life! It is simply the sexual life in which the Spirit func- tions through the organs of generation, that and nothing more. Our upward evolution is there- fore, nothing more or less than the Ai>otheosis of our sex function, so that the higher Principles function through our organs of generation. This is the true secret of Initiation, and this is the Di- vine Alchemy, and is in fact the Great Work. This is Eegeneration and this is the only Plan of Sal- vation. This is the way the soul is saved, by tak- ing it in out of the cold, and giving it a home. A lost soul is a soul having nowhere to stay, one literally lost, for it cannot live in the body, be- cause it cannot function there. It is found, or saved when it is able to function through the organs of generation.
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ization of the functioning of the organs of genera- tion. The growth of the soul is through this proc- ess and in no other way. The real path for a woman to travel then, if she wishes to expand her soul is to exercise her creative function, in this spiritual manner, that is to express the spirit through the functioning of her organs of genera- tion. In a word to express spiritual maternity, in the place of the purely physical maternity that has for so long been the order of the day. The spiritual exercise of her organs of generation through the manifestation of spiritual maternity is the means of her Regeneration, and she can con- summate it in no other way, as this is the natural means that Nature has placed in her hands. The question then arises, why she has not done so in the past! Why are the organs of generation exercised only in a physical maoner! The answer is not hard to find. Sex relationship has always been for one of two reasons, either for the pur- pose of the pleasurable sensations of a purely physical nature that came with it, and hence lust pure and simple, or else for the purpose of gen- erating oifspring from a purely physical stand- point, in either case, it being a purely physical act. This being the case, only physical function- ing was induced. In other words, all the forces that tended to the awakening of the function- ing of the organs of generation have been of such a nature as to stimulate physical functioning to the total exclusion of eve^hing above the phys- ical plane. There has been nothing to cause them to function the spiritual. Besides, the position that woman was placed in for such a great length of time, was such as to cause her to spe- cialize the physical and carnal aspect of her sex; being used entirely for the purpose of sexual pleasure in the physical sense, she specialized the physical functions of her organs of genera- tion, and in this way, the higher functions were
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abandoned. This is in reality the cause of the conditions which we have to deplore in the sexual Itfe of the races. Being placed in this position, having her physical functions stimulated to the ultimate extreme, and there being nothing to call out the spiritual functioning of her generative system, she has been the Creatrix on the physical plane, but in no other way. The result has been that when she generated oifspring, it has been physically generated, while there has been no generative activity of a spiritual nature, and hence, it has not been spiritually generated. In other words, she has not given to her offspring a spiritual nature. This has still remained la- tent, and hence the soul is latent in all that she has brought forth. She has generated physical children, who have been devoid of any spiritual individuality. They have had latent souls but not active ones. They have been in fact spiritual corpses, still-bom, in fact soulless animals. She has longed for Living Children, filled with Soul, redundant with Spirit, but has in most cases been doomed to disappointment. They were bom soulless, because they were generated physically but not spiritually. The result has been that it has been in very few instances that children have been bom with souls, for the simple reason that the spiritual nature of the mother did not func- tion in a sexual way, and hence they were bom of flesh, not of spirit. The fault has been in the mother. She has been a physical mother, not a spiritual mother. Hence, people have to depend upon some other source for their spiritual na- ture. It has to be attained after birth, as they are bom without it. It is for this reason that it is so difficult for any one to obtain the spiritual vision, we were born without souls in the vast majority of instances. Of course, many of us secure them after birth, for were it not possible for us to attain a spiritual nature in this way,
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there would be no hope for the Eaxje, as there are so few bom with any spiritual nature at aU, be- cause they can only be bom spiritual when the or- gans of generation of the mother are functioning the spiritual principle. The Great Souls of the world are as a rule the exceptions to this rule. Im- maculate Conception is nothing more than the mother functioning all of her spiritual powers through her organs of generation at the time of conception, all such children will be Immaculately Conceived. It is in this way that the Race is to be redeemed. Man is literally bom in sin and con- ceived in iniquity, because he is conceived through the functions of the organs of generation in a purely physical manner under the impulse of a purely physical love, hence through lust. Chil- dren will be conceived in righteousness only when it is through the spiritual functioning of the or- gans of generation. This is the real curse that rests Tipon the human race at this time. The remedy is through Divine Motherhood, that is, through the functioning of the natures and pow- ers of the gods and goddesses, through the activ- ity of her organs of generation. When they are taught to become organs for the funqtioning of the Deities, the maternity of woman will have be- come an instrument of Divine Maternity, that is, she will have become a Divine Mother. This exer- cise of the function of Divine Maternity will be the means of Regenerating her entire nature so that it becomes Divine in all of its manifestations, and she becomes the very incarnation of Divinity. It is in this way that woman is to come into her own as thei incarnation of Divine Maternity. This is her destiny, and then she will bring forth the perfectly Divine Race. Then she will bear Liv- ing Children and not the Spiritual Corpses that have disappointed her for so many thousands of years in the past.
CHAPTEE XII.
THE MOTHERS.
All life begins in the Circle, both universal and particular life, there is no difference. The first Grand Circle, the Circle of Beginning, the Place of Birth is the Matrix in which the Kosmos and in fact the Super-Kosmic Aeon is generated. This is the Eing Pass Not, and is also the Great Serpent that supports the Universe within its em- brace. At the same time, this is not the only Cir- cle that engenders Life. Within this Great Circle there are a number of other Circles within one of which each of the Thirty Aeons are generated. ,This series of Circles is continued to infinity. In fact each of the Monads is generated within a sep- arate Circle. Not only is this principle true of the Supreme Eealm, but it is also true of all the other Principles of Universal manifestation. Each of the Goddesses is in fact a Circle in which her cre- ative work transpires. The Mother of the Starry Skirt, the Milky Way, is also a Circle that per- forms this creative Fimction in a certain phys- ical manner. The Constellations form another Circle that operates on the same principle, and also is this true of the Zodiac. However, this prin- ciple does not stop in the heavens. The smallest Vortex Eing is also a Circle having the same po- tential creative power only on an infinitely smaller scale. Every Cell in the body is such another Circle, having the full potency of Creative Ac- tion within itself. Thus we can see at a glance that all life emanates from the Circle, that it is full of procreation and that this is the center of
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all creative action, no matter on what Plane we look, nor how large or how small the scope of operation, it is the Circle with its creative po- tency that engenders all formation as well as all modes of life and all the diif erentiations of forces. The mystery of creation is the mystery of Ovea- tion. The revolution of the Circle, acting upon the static substance contained within it, tend to organize it into a spherical or rather elliptical form, which gives us in the case of the Kosmical Circle the Kosmic Egg, in the case of all smaller Circles, an Egg to correspond to the particular Circle which has engendered it. From time to time, the action of the Circle on this Egg devel- ops it to the point where in the course of time it germinates and hatches forth that which is Em- bryonically present in it, but at the same time ever engendering another Egg to take the place of the original one. Hence the Mystery of Cre- ation is the Mystery of the Circle and the Egg contained within it. The same process is going on all the time within each of the Cells of the body and each of the Vortex Eings as well as within each of the larger Circles. While the Vor- tex and Egg are the sole and only mysteries of Creation, there are a comparatively few of the Vortices that are of any great imi>ortance in the study of Creation and Kosmic Eegeneration, be- cause all of the smaller Circles are engendered by them.
As stated before, the Great Circle engenders the thirty Circles within each of which is engen- dered one of the thirty Aeons. In turn each of these engenders a number of smaller Circles or Vortices within each of which is engendered one of the Archetypes that reflects itself in a corre- sponding Type of manifest existence. These are the Vortices that engender the diverse Types of manifest life. They are hence called Mothers.
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When one of these mothers or Vortices has gen- erated a Type it at once begins to manifest itself in the Evolution of the Universe, and the descent of these Types into the Ether of the Physical Plane causes the creation of a corresponding Manitou who becomes the Archetype of a corre- sponding type of mundane and particularly of human Ufe. When the Manitou incarnates in a human form, he begins the work of originating a new type of people, who become his Clan. All definite Psychological Types of men are origi- nated through the Force of their respective Manitous. The Manitou is the Manifestation of the Type, while the Type is the Reflection of the Archetype, just as the Archetype is the off- spring of the Mother or Vortex. The Spiritual- ity of a Bace has always been the work of its Manitous, and all progress depends upon the re- ceptivity of the individual Men and Women to the force of the Types seeking human expression. However, in the last analysis it all depends upon the Mothers and their ability to express them- selves through human life and consciousness. In other words. Spiritual Men as well as great men of every type are born, they are not made. However this is not to be understood as having any reference to physical birth. They are bom of the Mothers, not of women. This birth of the Mothers may take place at any time during the life of the one to be bom, because it merely means the action of the force of the Mother, on his Principles in such a way as to create within him the type corresponding to the nature of the particular Mother Vortices involved. This in- fluence of the Mothers is one of practical Re- generation.
Seeing that the Mothers are reflected in the Archetjrpes, the Archetypes in the Types and the Types, in the Manitous, the question arises.
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why do not the Mothers incarnate directly in the persons of women and in this way do their work of transformation of human types! The reason is to be found in the fact that the vibration of the Vortex is on the Fourth Octave and hence it would be very difficult for any human being to stand the intensity of the vibration, also the vol- ume of vibration emanting from the Vortex is so great that it would disrupt the body and soul of an ordinary woman. While theoretically it would be possible for some women to staad this pressure, it would not be practical for the women of the present and several past generations. In the first place it must be borne in mind that the sexual organism of the woman would be the cen- ter where the Vortex would have to operate, and in order to stand the strain, her sexual organism would have to be perfectly formed, and at the same time in a perfectly healthy state, and there are at the present time very few women in whom the sexual organism is perfectly developed and in a state of perfect health. The Pelvis would have to be at least a third larger than in the nor- mal woman of the present generation. It would also have to be much deeper than in the normal type. The Uterus would have to be considerably larger, because that is the principal center where the Vortex would have to revolve. This will greatly reduce the number of women available for this function; but it is only the beginning of the difficulty. All of her organs of generation would have to be so attuned to vibration that they could respond to a much higher rate of vibration than they are ever called upon to register other- wise, and also they would have to respond to a volume of vibration at least a hundred times as great as that which human experience requires. Then it must be borne in mind that it is the sex force of the woman that would be used as the medium of expression for the Vortex, and hence
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the volume of sex force would have to be several times greater ttian that of any woman at the present time. This means that such a woman would have to be intensely feminine, powerfully sexed, passionate, and would of course, be very sensuous, as her capacity for sexual sensation would be multiplied at least a hundred fold above what it would be otherwise, and also she would be intensely emotional as a result of this life that she would be called upon to lead. It would not be absolutely essential that she should live off the sex plane, but at the same time, even though she lived on the sex plane she could never be satisfied, in as much as sexual satisfaction would mean that her energies were rendered quiescent, and this would mean that the Vortex could not express itself, for the action of the Vor- tex would mean a state of perpetual sexual ex- citement. However, for many reasons it would be best for her to live a life of physical chastity, as the activity would be largely above the physi- cal plane. Such a woman would have such a powerful sex nature that no man would ever be able to satisfy it, which is the greater reason why she should live the life of a virgin and ex- press her sex nature in a Psychic manner rather than physically. It will at once be seen that there are several reasons why it would be diffi- cult for us to find women of this type, but the difficulties are not all stated as yet. The woman to perform this work must never be of a nega- tive type. She must be intensely positive, even dynamic. She must represent the active, domi- nant type, the type who will never obey any one, the free womaa in every sense of the word, she must be the Emancipated Woman, who also ex- pects to be obeyed. She must not ask favors, but demand them. If she were married, she would have to wear the pants, as the saying goes. She would have to have a well nigh Omnipotent
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Will, and this in conjunction with her intense femininity. This entire combination, it will be readily seen, is very difficult to find in any worn- an, but the woman to incarnate one of the Mothers will have to possess all of them in their highest possible proportions. Also she must be in the full possession of all her sexual vigor, in a word, her sexual prime. And she will have to be absolutely unconventional, and unconservative, a radical, an Anarchist in fact. She will have to be an absolute Free Thinker and at the same time intensely religious, and of the deepest Spirituality. She must be the very embodiment of Soul and at the same time her mind. Emo- tional or Desire Body and her physical body must all be perfect and in accordance with the perfection of her soul. Her body must be strong and muscular, athletic and agile as well as grace- ful to the extreme. Where are such women to be found? Needness to say, they can only be de- veloped away from the centers of convention, in the open, and also among those who do not have to do hard work, and also among those who are not depending upon any one for their means of life. It is only in the atmosphere of perfect free- dom that this condition can be realized. I know of no locality save a few of the Western States of this country where it is possible for this type to be developed, and I am frank to say that if there are any of them at the present time, I am not aware of it.
At the same time I am certain that they will appear in this generation. Many of the factors essential to the development of the type are al- ready present, and doubtless others will mani- fest themselves ere long. When these types have been developed, the Mothers will incarnate in them and they will manifest the full potency of the Vortices that are incarnate in them. In
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this way will these women become the Mothers. They will each of them assmne a dominant atti- tude toward all humanity, and in fact will each consider herself the true Human Type. She will take herself as the standard by which all men and women are to be measured. There will be none of the broadminded type here, she will in- sist that society shall be molded after her type. She will in effect lay down the Law to all hu- manity. No one will desire such a woman for a friend or companion, though many will seek her for advice, and many will follow her leadership. There will be nothing public spirited or Demo- cratic, nothing social about her. She will play ojdj on the center of the stage. This is exactly as it should be ; for the mission of such a woman is to create a new type, not to co-operate with any of the present types of humanity. Each will occupy a position corresponding to the Great Vortices that are incarnate in them. It is through them that the New Order of Life is to be ushered in, and the New Race to be bom.
It may be asked in what way a few hundred women, each of whom considers herself worth more than a cool million ordinary human beings, can work the complete transformation of the hu- man race so that it will assume their respective types of Psychology. We must therefore con- sider the magic of a magnetic personality. What constitutes it, and how does it influence human- ily! In the first place, a magnetic personality is due to a superabundance of Will Force, a Will Force that is fairly radiated from the person. This Will Force is positive and dynamic, it is also Centrifugal, literally streaming out in every direction, and moving with a terrific force, so that it literally disintegrates all the Will Forces with which it comes in contact. It is the pres- sure and velocity of such a Will Power that gives
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that peculiar power which we term magnetic personality. It is a flood of magnetism that lit- erally dissolves and neutralizes all the magne- tisms that it contacts. It is in proportion to the degree in which it is able to do this that its po- tency is felt. These women that we are speaking of, owing to the fact that each one has within her the dynamics of an entire Vortex expressing it 8elf in terms of Magnetism and Will Force, will send forth a force so dynamic that all human wills and magnetisms will be shattered, and then they will be acted upon formatively and in the end will assume the Type of which she is the Archetype or Mother. It is in this way that the Mothers are destined to create the new types. They will do it by the power of their Wills and Magnetisms acting silently on the public will and consciousness of the Eace. Of course also their personal presence and influence will be very great, and they will create the greatest influence in the locality where they live, for each one will be the H^art and Soul of Her Claa which will live in the same portion of the country where she does. They will in time find themselves invariably doing exactly what she wishes without ever know- ing that they were not doing as they pleased and following their own judgment. This will be the way, but of course her influence will in time be- come so great that her expressed wishes and judgment will sway the people to a great extent. There are in fact a number of ways in which this can be brought about, but above all else, it will be the dynamic power of her will that wiU bring about all that it contemplates. Their authority over those of their Type will be purely and per- fectly maternal and it will be practically Abso- lute, for the reason that as they are created after the image of her Will, they will not have it in their power to disobey her will in any serious degree. It is in this way that the world will be
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bom again, the Baoe Regenerated and the Moth- ers engender the Types that correspond to them. Thus will the Great Maternal Vortices find ex- pression in Man, and the new types wiU come into being.
Also it is highly probable that at the same time that the Mothers are doing their work, a nmnber of Manitous will also appear upon the earth, but if so they will be the children of the Mothers in a much more intimate sense than are the members of the Types created by the Moth- ers, and as such they will literally obey their Mothers and carry out their will in this work of transformation.
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