The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 79
The Principle of Gender (see
Lesson I and other lessons to
follow) is manifested on all
planes of life, material mental
and spiritual. But, as we have
said before, "Gender" does not
mean "Sex" sex is merely a
material manifestation of
gender.
"Gender" means "relating to
generation or creation."
And whenever anything is
generated or created on any
plane, the Principle of Gender
must be manifested. And this
is true even in the creation of
Universes.
Now do not jump to the
conclusion that we are
teaching that there is a male
and female God or Creator.
That idea is merely a distortion
of the ancient teachings on the
subject. The true teaching is
that THE ALL, in itself, is above
Gender, as it is above every
other Law, including those of
Time and Space. It is the Law,
from which the Laws proceed
and it is not subject to them.
But when THE ALL manifests
on the plane of generation or
creation, then it acts according
to Law and Principle, for it is
moving on a lower plane of
Being. And consequently it
manifests the Principle of
Gender, in its Masculine and
Feminine aspects, on the
Mental Plane, of course.
This idea may seem startling to
some of you who hear it for the
first time, but you have all
really passively accepted it in
your everyday conceptions.
You speak of the Fatherhood of
God and the Motherhood of
Nature - of God, the Divine
Father, and Nature the
Universal Mother - and have
thus instinctively
acknowledged the Principle of
Gender in the Universe.
Is this not so?
But, the Hermetic teaching
does not imply a real duality THE ALL is ONE - the Two
Aspects are merely aspects of
manifestation. The teaching is
that The Masculine Principle
manifested by THE ALL stands,
in a way, apart from the actual
mental creation of the
Universe. It projects its Will
toward the Feminine Principle
(which may be called "Nature")
whereupon the latter begins
the actual work of the
evolution of the Universe, from
simple "centres of activity" on
to man and then on and on still