Gender [Yin and Yang]

The Principle of Gender says that there is Gender in everything. Masculine and Feminine principles are ever present and active in all phases of phenomena, on each and every plane of life.

The Hermetic sense of Gender is different from ordinary Sex.

“Gender” is Latin for “to beget, procreate, generate, create, produce.”

A moment’s consideration will show you that the word has a much broader and more general meaning than the term “Sex,” the latter referring to the physical distinctions between male and female living things.

Sex is merely a manifestation of Gender on a certain plane of the Great Physical Plane—the plane of organic life. We wish to impress this distinction upon your minds, for the reason that certain writers, who have acquired a smattering of the Hermetic Philosophy, have sought to identify this Seventh Hermetic Principle with wild and fanciful, and often reprehensible, theories and teachings regarding Sex.

The office of Gender is solely that of creating, producing, generating, etc., and its manifestations are visible on every plane of phenomena. It is somewhat difficult to produce proofs of this along scientific lines, for the reason that science has not as yet recognized this Principle as of universal application.

But still some proofs are forthcoming from scientific sources. In the first place, we find a distinct manifestation of the Principle of Gender among the corpuscles, ions, or electrons, which constitute the basis of Matter as science now knows the latter, and which by forming certain combinations form the Atom, which until lately was regarded as final and indivisible.

The latest word of science is that the atom is composed of a multitude of corpuscles, electrons, or ions (the various names being applied by different authorities) revolving around each other and vibrating at a high degree and intensity. But the accompanying statement is made that the formation of the atom is really due to the clustering of negative corpuscles around a positive one—-the positive corpuscles seeming to exert a certain influence upon the negative corpuscles, causing the latter to assume certain combinations and thus “create” or “generate” an atom.

This is in line with the most ancient Hermetic Teachings, which have always identified the Masculine principle of Gender with the “Positive,” and the Feminine with the “Negative” Poles of Electricity (so called).

The public has a wrong understanding on the “Negative” pole of electrified or magnetized Matter.

The terms Positive and Negative are very wrongly applied to this phenomenon by science.

“Positive” means something real and strong, as compared with a Negative unreality or weakness.

Nothing is further from the real facts of electrical phenomenon. The Negative pole of the battery is really the pole in and by which the generation or production of new forms and energies is manifested.

There is nothing “negative” about it.

Science now uses the word “Cathode” in place of “Negative”. “Cathode” comes from the Greek root meaning “descent; the path of generation, etc”.

From the Cathode pole emerge the swarm of electrons or corpuscles; from the same pole emerge those wonderful “rays” which have revolutionized scientific conceptions during the past decade.

The Cathode pole is the Mother of all of the strange phenomena which have rendered useless the old textbooks, and which have caused many long accepted theories to be relegated to the scrap-pile of scientific speculation.

The Cathode, or Negative Pole, is the Mother Principle of Electrical Phenomena, and of the finest forms of matter as yet known to science.

So you see we are justified in refusing to use the term “Negative” in our consideration of the subject, and in insisting upon substituting the word “Feminine” for the old term. The facts of the case bear us out in this, without taking the Hermetic Teachings into consideration.

We shall use the word “Feminine” in the place of “Negative” in speaking of that pole of activity.

The latest scientific teachings are that the creative corpuscles or electrons are Feminine (science says “they are composed of negative electricity”-we say they are composed of Feminine energy).

A Feminine corpuscle leaves a Masculine corpuscle and starts on a new career.

It actively seeks a union with a Masculine corpuscle, being urged thereto by the natural impulse to create new forms of Matter or Energy.

It immediately seeks, of its own volition, a union.

This detachment and uniting form the basis of the greater part of the activities of the chemical world.

When the Feminine corpuscle unites with a Masculine corpuscle, a certain process is begun. The Feminine particles vibrate rapidly under the influence of the Masculine energy, and circle rapidly around the latter.

The result is the birth of a new atom.

This new atom is really composed of a union of the Masculine and Feminine electrons, or corpuscles, but when the union is formed the atom is a separate thing, having certain properties, but no longer manifesting the property of free electricity.

The process of detachment or separation of the Feminine electrons is called “ionization.”

These electrons, or corpuscles, are the most active workers in Nature’s field. Arising from their unions, or combinations, manifest the varied phenomena of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, attraction, repulsion, chemical affinity and the reverse, and similar phenomena. All this arises from the operation of the Principle of Gender on the plane of Energy.

The part of the Masculine principle seems to be that of directing a certain inherent energy toward the Feminine principle, and thus starting into activity the creative processes.

But the Feminine principle is the one always doing the active creative work-and this is so on all planes.

Each principle is incapable of operative energy without the assistance of the other. In some of the forms of life, the two principles are combined in one organism.

Everything in the organic world manifests both genders.

There is always the Masculine present in the Feminine form, and the Feminine form. The Hermetic Teachings include much regarding the operation of the two principles of Gender in the production and manifestation of various forms of energy, etc., but we do not deem it expedient to go into detail regarding the same at this point, because we are unable to back up the same with scientific proof, for the reason that science has not as yet progressed thus far.

Some leading scientific investigators have announced their belief that in the formation of crystals there was to be found something that corresponded to “sex-activity” which is another straw showing the direction the scientific winds are blowing.

And each year will bring other facts to corroborate the correctness of the Hermetic Principle of Gender.

Gender is in constant operation and manifestation in the field of inorganic matter, and in the field of Energy or Force.

Electricity is now generally regarded as the “Something” into which all other forms of energy seem to melt or dissolve.

The “Electrical Theory of the Universe” is the latest scientific doctrine, and is growing rapidly in popularity and general acceptance.

The presence of Gender and its activities is present in the phenomena of electricity.

we are justified in asking you to believe that science at last has offered proofs of the existence in all universal phenomena of that great Hermetic Principle-the Principle of Gender.

It is not necessary to take up your time with the well known phenomena of the “attraction and repulsion” of the atoms; chemical affinity; the “loves and hates” of the atomic particles; the attraction or cohesion between the molecules of matter. These facts are too well known to need extended comment from us.

All of these things are manifestations of the Gender Principle.

The Law of Gravitation-that strange attraction by reason of which all particles and bodies of matter in the universe tend toward each other is but another manifestation of the Principle of Gender, which operates in the direction of attracting the Masculine to the Feminine energies, and vice versa?

We cannot offer you scientific proof of this now.