"Destined by the Supreme Being to form the human being from her flesh, her blood and her soul, destined to nourish it with her milk and to give it its earliest education, the two acts which have the greatest influence over the individual life, woman should be considered as the chief agent of perfection. This _rôle_ classes her naturally in a very elevated rank in society, and exacts of her superior perfections. "Thus in the future she will be the image of Divine Wisdom on earth, as man will represent Divine Power. "To man more especially will belong action; to woman, counsel. "Man will take the initiative in difficult enterprises; woman will moderate or excite ardor therein. "Man will rule the planet; woman will embellish it. "Man will symbolize science and manufactures; woman will symbolize poetry and art. "The one will always have need of the other; they will walk together side by side, and will find completeness reciprocally in each other. "Such, my dear friend, after a brief fashion, is the idea which should be formed of woman. Man and woman are not two beings radically separated; both together make but a single being. To subordinate woman to man or man to woman is therefore to mutilate the human being, or to fail to comprehend its interests. That humanity may be happy, neither of its halves must suffer. And how can it help suffering if it is reduced to servitude and oppressed by the other? "Our destiny on earth is to constitute the collective being in his own consciousness. For this, it is necessary to realize the humanitary androgynus. Now the humanitary androgynus necessitates first the individual androgynus which can only be constituted by harmonious marriage. "Marriage is therefore the great formative or deformative law of the collective being, according as it is expressed by the legislator in a manner conformably or contrary to human destiny. "It is in marriage that the sources of good and evil are found; would you know why? "Because in the act that joins the man to the woman, and by which the couple are made to form but one body, the two souls are fused by means of a reciprocal donation, which unites the souls of the two for eternity. "So that, after the conjunction, the soul of the woman adheres to the soul of the man and accompanies it everywhere, while the soul of the man adheres to the woman and never more quits it. "Whence it follows that if the soul of the man be depraved, it depraves the woman to whom it is united, by exercising over her a continued action, even at a distance. So also does the depravity of the woman united to the man deprave him without his knowing it by an occult and permanent action. "The souls of two depraved beings may be therefore inseparably conjoined, without thus constituting the individual androgynus, which is the divine end of marriage or the union of the sexes. "The individual androgynus is only possible to the condition of unity. But unity cannot be constituted by evil.