The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 139

accepted use of the term are
not the same.
The word "Gender" is derived
from the Latin root meaning
"to beget, to procreate, to
generate, to create, to
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