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Caduceus
ultrasonic energy. The soul, in turn, energizes the mind which is its agent of action; and the mind works through the senses as its agents. That is the natural sequence. But man has greatly abused this God-given energy. As a result, he has fallen so low that he is not even aware of the fact that he is permitting the senses and emotions to rule the mind, and the mind to enslave the soul. Thus mankind is borrowing and wasting this great gift in mental and material pursuits. In such a condition, he has completely forgotten his Source. He cannot even fathom the purpose of his own life, much less that of creation as a whole.
SERPENTS: The symbol of the mind is the serpent, the great deceiver. The Persians call it 'Nafs'. It is forever active on embodied trees of knowledge, now as it was then. As it descends the spinal column and flows over the sympathetic system, it wants to follow the senses outward, for sensation only. This is the symbol of the serpent coming down from the Tree of Life, tempting Eve, the incarnated soul energy IN MAN AND IN WOMAN, in outward expenditure of sense life. (This is equally true today, and it takes much training to properly guide and curb these tendencies upward, through a deeper understanding of life in all its phases of expression.)
A great injustice was done to womanhood by the literal interpretation of the story of the 'Garden of Eden'. WOMAN, AS A PERSON, WAS NOT THE CAUSE OF MAN'S FALL INTO MATTER: for even in the Ideal Creation of the first six days or cosmic cycles, "Male and Female created He them". This was in the pattern world, called also the 'Causal Plane', prior to the creation of this material world and the species therein.
In the next creation below that of the Causal Plane; namely that of the finest essence of matter called 'Akash' [akasha, aakaasha] or Ether, the patterns were extracted from each other. This is the 'Yang' and the 'Yin' principle of the Chinese. This principle operates everywhere from the Causal Plane on down into this world. It is in this duality of function that there is a constant fall into matter and materialization, through creation of forms.
HOW, THEN, COULD WOMAN AS A PERSONALITY, BE RESPONSIBLE for all this, alone? Eve (woman) is called the Mother of all living things. She is the principle of 'Yin', the shaper of forms. Adam (man) is the 'Yang' principle, the Father and giver of life. One cannot function without the other in reproducing the species. True, form and sense life bring the vital energy down to earth and bind it in form; but this is the purpose of 'Yin', and is not the fault of womanhood.
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