"Gender is in everything and manifests on every plane of phenomena. Gender is in constant operation in the fields of Matter, in the fields of Energy, and in the fields of Force. The word "Gender" is derived from Latin meaning to beget; to produce; to generate; or to create. The dichotomy of two sexes is merely an organic manifestation of Gender on a physical plane." 

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The great Seventh Essenic Principle - the Principle of Gender - embodies the truth that there is Gender manifested in everything - that the Masculine and Feminine principles are ever present and active in all phases of phenomena and on each and every plane of existence. It is important to note that Gender, in its Hermetic sense, and Sex in the ordinarily 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." 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 an organic manifestation of Gender on a physical plane.

The office of Gender is solely that of creating, producing, generating, etc., and its manifestations are visible on every plane of existence. We find a distinct manifestation of the Principle of Gender among the corpuscles, ions, or electrons, which constitute the basis of all Matter, as science now knows it, and which by forming certain combinations form the Atom, which until lately was regarded as final and indivisible.

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 assume certain combinations and thus "create" or "generate" an atom. This is in line with the most ancient Hermetic Teachings, which have always identified the Masculine principle of Gender with the "Positive," and the Feminine with the "Negative" (or so called).

Now a word at this point regarding this identification. The public mind has formed an entirely erroneous impression regarding the qualities of the so-called "Negative" pole of electrified or magnetized Matter. The terms Positive and Negative are very wrongly applied to this phenomenon by science. The word Positive means something real and strong, as compared with a Negative unreality or weakness. Nothing is further from the real facts of electrical physics. The so-called Negative pole of the battery is really the pole in and by which the generation or production of new forms and energies is manifested. There is nothing "negative" about it. The best scientific authorities now use the word "Cathode" in place of "Negative," the word Cathode coming from the Greek root meaning "descent; the path of generation, etc," From the Cathode pole emerge the swarm of electrons or corpuscles; from the same pole emerge those wonderful "rays" which have revolutionized scientific conceptions during the past decade. The Cathode pole is the Mother of all of the strange phenomena which have rendered useless the old text-books, and which have caused many long accepted theories to be relegated to the scrap-pile of scientific speculation. The Cathode, or Negative Pole, is the Mother Principle of Electrical Phenomena, and of the finest forms of matter as yet known to science. 

The latest scientific teachings are that the creative corpuscles or electrons are Feminine (science says they are composed of "negative" electricity). A Feminine corpuscle becomes detached from, or rather leaves, a Masculine corpuscle, and starts on a new endeavor. It actively seeks a union with a Masculine corpuscle, being urged thereto by the natural impulse to create new forms of Matter or Energy. One writer goes so far as to use the term "it at once seeks, of its own volition, a union, " etc. This detachment and uniting form the basis of the greater part of the activities of the chemical world. When the Feminine corpuscle unites with a Masculine corpuscle, a certain process is begun. The Feminine particles vibrate rapidly under the influence of the Masculine energy, and circle rapidly around the latter. The result is the birth of a new atom. This new atom is really composed of a union of the Masculine and Feminine electrons, or corpuscles, but when the union is formed the atom is a separate thing, having certain properties, but no longer manifesting the property of free electricity. The process of detachment or separation of the Feminine electrons is called "ionization." These electrons, or corpuscles, are the most active workers in Nature's field. Arising from their unions, or combinations, manifest the varied phenomena of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, attraction, repulsion, chemical affinity and the reverse. And all this arises from the operation of the Principle of Gender on the plane of Energy.

The part of the Masculine principle seems to be that of directing a certain inherent energy toward the Feminine principle, and thus starting into activity the creative processes. But the Feminine principle is the one always doing the active creative work - and this is so on all planes. And yet, each principle is incapable of operative energy without the assistance of the other. In some of the forms of life, the two principles are combined in one organism. For that matter, everything in the organic world manifests both genders - there is always the Masculine present in the Feminine form, and the Feminine present in the Masculine form. 

Some leading scientific investigators have announced their belief that in the formation of crystals there was to be found something that corresponded to "sex activity" which is another example showing the direction the scientific winds are blowing. And each year will bring other facts to corroborate the correctness of the Principle of Gender. 

Gender is in constant operation and manifestation in the field of inorganic matter, and in the field of Energy or Force. Electricity is now generally regarded as the "Something" into which all other forms of energy seem to melt or dissolve. The "Electrical Theory of the Universe" is the latest scientific doctrine, and is growing rapidly in popularity and general acceptance. And it thus follows that if we are able to discover in the phenomena of electricity - even at the very root and source of its manifestations a clear and unmistakable evidence of the presence of Gender and its activities, then science at last has offered proofs of its existence in all universal phenomena.

It is not necessary to elaborate on the well known phenomena of  "attraction and repulsion" of the atoms; chemical affinity; the "loves and hates" of the atomic particles; the attraction or cohesion between the molecules of matter. These facts are too well known to need extended comment here but, we need to realize that all of these things are manifestations of the Gender Principle.

The teachings which assert that the very Law of Gravitation - that strange attraction by reason of which all particles and bodies of matter in the universe tend toward each other -  is but another manifestation of the Principle of Gender which operates in the direction of attracting the Masculine to the Feminine energies, and vice versa. 

Examine all phenomena in the light of the Principle of Gender. Submit all physical phenomena to investigation and you will discover the Principle of Gender is extant in everything ... everywhere.

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