Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of SexMcIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
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Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Sex
Woman's demand for political equality is but a shadowgraph as it were
of the real demand which is the demand of the Divine Feminine
throughout all manifested life, for recognition of equality, in the
plan of creation. It is a symbol of the ideal of unity which finds
expression in the commercial world in trusts and labor unions; in the
"let us get together" plea of the various advocates of reform; of all
those enterprises which are seen to most directly affect the entire
human family.
That there are women who are blind to this fundamental idea of their
demand for political equality is true; and it is also true that there
are perhaps as many men as there are women who recognize the need of
woman's political and social equality, but this only proves the fact
which we have already emphasized, namely that it is not women as
personalities, but the Female Principle throughout the universe that
is at the root of the modern Feminist Movement. The male principle is
not confined to the form of man, neither is the female principle
always expressed in the form of woman. Many men exemplify more of the
maternal instinct than do certain women; neither must it be assumed
that this type of man is effeminate; or that the woman of Amazonian
physique is more masculine in thought and habit than is the little
frou-frou specimen of womankind who looks appealingly into the eyes of
her male escort, beseeching protection from the rude stares which she
has premeditatedly invited. Qualities are sexless and universal. It is
only in their specific combinations that they adequately represent the
masculine or the feminine gender.
Blessed are they who have learned the art of discrimination.
Broadly speaking, women are behaving in a manner which upsets all
precedent and promises ultimate emancipation from restraint.
But is it not possible that women no longer need restraint if they
ever needed it? Is it not possible that the world has grown up, and
that both men and women may safely be allowed the freedom of
self-government, with all possible mutual aid in the work of
establishing an upright, free, and trustworthy science of right
living?
That which is always in the future is never ours and if we are ever
going to be free and happy and well-conditioned there is no reason why
we should not make it soon.
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