British freewomen : $b Their historical privilegeStopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
History
British freewomen : $b Their historical privilege
Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Women -- Great Britain; Women -- History
God made man in His own image, male and female; man has made him
altogether male. The Creator said, “It is not good for man to be alone.”
His creature asserts, “It is best for us to be alone.” But it never has
been good; it is not good now. Only in following out the lines of God’s
conception can _man_ (_homo_) remain in the image of God. Early names
were all connotative, recording some special quality or association, and
the early name of Adam was “Dust,” and the meaning of Eve is “Life.” The
Titanic and Earth-born Physical force of which Adam was made the
representative, must be united to that which _lives and brings Life_, to
make one perfect being. Only through the spiritual and practical union
of Man with Woman can society be regenerated. When Woman ate of the Tree
of the knowledge of Good and Evil, she learned more clearly to
distinguish the good from the evil and to choose that good. Therefore,
God chose the Woman as His fellow-worker in the scheme of Redemption. As
part of the curse of Satan it is part of the primeval blessing of
Humanity, that “I will put enmity between thee and the Woman.” The hands
that restrict the Woman’s power, and limit her opportunity of fulfilling
her mission, are fighting against God’s Will.
The words of God, “Thy desire shall be unto thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee,” is a prophecy of man’s wrong and not a statute of man’s
right. To understand this we have only to collate the passage with that
other in which God speaks to Cain before he slew his brother—“If thou
doest well shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well sin
lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt
rule over him.”
The result of the first “physical force argument” was the death of the
“righteous Abel.” The result of the same argument, through centuries of
human existence, has been the death-in-life of the Woman whom God
opposed to Satan. And the paralysis of the half has affected the whole
body Social and Politic.
The Divine and Human are united through the Woman.
It is only by the representative Woman that Christ becomes the “Son of
Man.” i
Christ, as His Father did, took women to be His friends and
fellow-workers. Women never forsook Him. Woman watched by His cradle and
spread the “glad tidings” ere yet He had opened His lips. Fearless women
stood by His Cross and saw the last of His life; faithful women went to
the Tomb and learned first of His Resurrection.
Through the ages, the contest between Satan and the Woman and between
the Seed of Satan and the Seed of the Woman, has been made unduly hard
both for Man and Woman, because of the Woman being bound both hand and
foot. “The Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make war with the
Remnant of her Seed which keep the Commandments of God, and have the
Testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. xii. 17).
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