The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 146

held existed in every
individual. Other writers have
attracted almost equal
attention by the theories
regarding the "conscious and
subconscious minds", the
"voluntary and involuntary
minds", "the active and
passive minds" etc, etc. The
theories of the various writers
differ from each other, but
there remains the underlying
principle of "the duality of
mind."
The student of the Hermetic
Philosophy is tempted to
smile when he reads and
hears of these many "new
theories" regarding the
duality of mind each school
adhering tenaciously to its
own pet theories and each
claiming to have "discovered
the truth." The student turns
back the pages of occult
history and away back in the
dim beginnings of occult
teachings he finds references
to the ancient Hermetic
doctrine of the Principle of
Gender on the Mental Plane,
the manifestation of Mental
Gender. And examining
further he finds that the
ancient philosophy took
cognizance of the

phenomenon of the "dual
mind" and accounted for it by
the theory of Mental Gender.

This idea of Mental Gender
may be explained in a few
words to students who are
familiar with the modern
theories just alluded to.
The Masculine Principle of
Mind corresponds to the socalled Objective Mind,
Conscious Mind, Voluntary
Mind, Active Mind etc. And the
Feminine Principle of Mind
corresponds to the so-called
Subjective Mind, Subconscious Mind, Involuntary