"It was by emanating from this Power (_sci._, Incomprehensible Silence) that Thought-in-onlyness became two. "Yet was He, (the Supernal Father) one; for having her (_sci._ Thought) in Himself He was alone [that is, all-one, or only, that is one-ly]. He was not, however, [in this state] 'first,' although transcendent; it was only in manifesting Himself from Himself that He became 'second' [that is to say, as He who stands]. Nay, He was not even called 'Father' till Thought named Him 'Father.' "As, therefore, Himself pro-ducing Himself by means of Himself, He manifested to Himself His own Thought; so also His Thought on manifesting did not make [Him], but beholding Him, she concealed the Father, that is the Power, in Herself, and is [thus] male-female, Power and Thought. "Thence is it that they partner one another (for Power in no way differs from Thought) and yet are one. From the things Above is discovered Power, and from those Below Thought. "So is it, too, with that which is manifested from them; namely, that though it (_sci._ the Middle Distance, Incomprehensible Air) is one, it is found to be two, male-female, having the female in itself. "Thus is Mind in Thought--inseparable from one another, which though one are yet found to be two." I believe that our Vision of the Cross sets forth in living symbol precisely what is explained above in more "abstract" terms. It would, however, be a mistake to make abstractions of these sublime ideas; they must be realized as fullnesses, as transcendent realities. The Air, the Batos, the Middle Distance, is the manifestation, or thinking-manifest, of the Divine to Itself, the true meaning of _mā-yā_. (See the Trismegistic Sermon, "Though Unmanifest God is most Manifest," and the commentary, _H._, ii., 99-109). 11. I have translated the term διαπηξἁμενος by "cross-beaming," for διαπἡγιον is a "cross-beam"; and I would refer the reader to the famous myth of Plato known as "The Vision of Er," where the same idea is set forth when we read: "There they saw the extremities of the Boundaries of the Heaven, extended in the midst of the Light; for this Light was the final Boundary of Heaven--_somewhat like the undergirdings of ships_--and thus confined its whole revolution." (See _H._, i., 440.) This "cross-beaming" or operation of the Cross is the mode of the energizing of the Logos. It is the simultaneous separating and joining of the generable and the ingenerable, the two modes of the Self-generable; it is the link between personal and impersonal, bound and free, finite and infinite. It is the instrument of creation, male-female in one.