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| 40. When some women failed to exhibit at certain times the qualities of rational initiative so useful to men, men tended to become confused. "Surely," said men, "It is true that women as well as men are human, and must therefore be equipped with powers of initiative and ideation? Must it not therefore be proper for us to expect women to choose rationally what to do and to do it?" | 104 |
| 40. When some women failed to exhibit at certain times the qualities of rational initiative so useful to men, men tended to become confused. "Surely," said men, "It is true that women as well as men are human, and must therefore be equipped with powers of initiative and ideation? Must it not therefore be proper for us to expect women to choose rationally what to do and to do it?" | 104 |
| 56. Initiative is the cause of the introduction of change into established systems. It is referred to by Jesus when he says, "The spirit blows where it lists; one can hear it passing but does not know from whence it came or whither it goes. So is everyone born of the spirit." We see initiative at work at the human level wherever we see a human being creating new forms or new values, or breaking through inertic patterns of behaviour in order to clear the ground for further new creations. Initiative is the power to produce intelligent changes and to disclose new creative directions. | 142 |
| 81. Man can return to the absolute level of reflexive self-consciousness only because he derives from that level. "No man ascends to the Father but he that came down from the Father." | 206 |
| 88. With its infinite sentience, before creation, the Absolute feels its infinite power as an unlimited potential of creative activity. It feels this as an infinite, unformulated yearning which creative activity alone can assuage. This is why it is said, "God is Love", and "God so loved the world. . ." | 224 |
| 147. Just as the initiative and formulating power of the Absolute enters into, animates and formulates universal prime matter, so the Absolute requires man's initiative and formulative power to enter into the soul and body of woman for their joint elevation. "God is the head of man, and man is the head of woman." | 384 |
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| 84. The word "create" indicates something of this. It is derived from a root "kra" which, read boustrophedon, gives also "ark" or "arc". Not to be deceived with a flat earth image the completed arc gives a circle, which is an easy-to-represent symbol on a plane surface of a sphere, the sphere being the ultimate or original type of all created things. | 214 |
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| 84. The word "create" indicates something of this. It is derived from a root "kra" which, read boustrophedon, gives also "ark" or "arc". Not to be deceived with a flat earth image the completed arc gives a circle, which is an easy-to-represent symbol on a plane surface of a sphere, the sphere being the ultimate or original type of all created things. | 214 |
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| 154. Phase Three of Universal Matter is that phase of activity in which the matter's inertic resistance has fulfilled its purposes, and the Absolute Power, by creating reflexive self-conscious vehicles has fulfilled its evolutionary purpose. Universal Matter in this phase is absolutely obedient to the will of the Absolute, presenting only such resistance as is necessary for the retention of reflexive awareness. This phase we abbreviate to M3, meaning Malleable Mary, the universal ocean in its state of complete acceptance of the all-conquering will of the Absolute. This is symbolised by the Mary of whom it is reported that she said, "Be it unto me as unto the handmaid of the Lord". | 402 |
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| 7. Power to initiate change we may call simply "initiative". Power to formulate we may call "ideation". Power to feel we may call "sentience" (from Latin "sentire", to feel). Power to resist change, which is mass inertia, we may call "substantiality", or in a certain sense, "body". | 22 |
| 111. Universal matter is inertic, that is, the power involved in it and constituting it, presents resistance to any force acting upon it from outside. Because every being derives from the Absolute Sentient Power, each being experiences its own substance at the feeling level as a sensation of mass-inertia. Mass-inertia is what we usually mean by "body". We can see this meaning of the word "body" in such expressions as "body-colour" for opaque colours, or when we say there is "body" in certain fabrics, etc. | 288 |
| 111. Universal matter is inertic, that is, the power involved in it and constituting it, presents resistance to any force acting upon it from outside. Because every being derives from the Absolute Sentient Power, each being experiences its own substance at the feeling level as a sensation of mass-inertia. Mass-inertia is what we usually mean by "body". We can see this meaning of the word "body" in such expressions as "body-colour" for opaque colours, or when we say there is "body" in certain fabrics, etc. | 288 |
| 111. Universal matter is inertic, that is, the power involved in it and constituting it, presents resistance to any force acting upon it from outside. Because every being derives from the Absolute Sentient Power, each being experiences its own substance at the feeling level as a sensation of mass-inertia. Mass-inertia is what we usually mean by "body". We can see this meaning of the word "body" in such expressions as "body-colour" for opaque colours, or when we say there is "body" in certain fabrics, etc. | 288 |
| 112. Universal Matter, the universal mater or mother principle of all things, has two chief stresses: mass inertia, or "body" and sentience, or feeling awareness. It knows itself as a mass-inertic feeling substance. At the level of humanity an individual woman experiences this same kind of feeling when there is no external force to act upon her and modify her substance. She, of course, experiences this because she is stressed in the same way as the universal substance from which she derives her being. | 290 |
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| 111. Universal matter is inertic, that is, the power involved in it and constituting it, presents resistance to any force acting upon it from outside. Because every being derives from the Absolute Sentient Power, each being experiences its own substance at the feeling level as a sensation of mass-inertia. Mass-inertia is what we usually mean by "body". We can see this meaning of the word "body" in such expressions as "body-colour" for opaque colours, or when we say there is "body" in certain fabrics, etc. | 288 |
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| 84. The word "create" indicates something of this. It is derived from a root "kra" which, read boustrophedon, gives also "ark" or "arc". Not to be deceived with a flat earth image the completed arc gives a circle, which is an easy-to-represent symbol on a plane surface of a sphere, the sphere being the ultimate or original type of all created things. | 214 |
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| 24. The creation of new tensions in biological forms means the probable acceleration of the inherent forces of those forms to the appearance of new behaviour patterns conducive to more rapid attainment of life's goal - the creation of the being of immediate optimal response, the being called in the New Testament the "quick", as opposed to the "dead". The "dead" is the being ruled by inertia, able to respond to a new stimulus only in an old way. Ultimately only the "quick" will survive, for the "dead" will have failed to adapt to the ever increasing demand for more adequate response to the world-stimulus situation. | 62 |
| 24. The creation of new tensions in biological forms means the probable acceleration of the inherent forces of those forms to the appearance of new behaviour patterns conducive to more rapid attainment of life's goal - the creation of the being of immediate optimal response, the being called in the New Testament the "quick", as opposed to the "dead". The "dead" is the being ruled by inertia, able to respond to a new stimulus only in an old way. Ultimately only the "quick" will survive, for the "dead" will have failed to adapt to the ever increasing demand for more adequate response to the world-stimulus situation. | 62 |
| 24. The creation of new tensions in biological forms means the probable acceleration of the inherent forces of those forms to the appearance of new behaviour patterns conducive to more rapid attainment of life's goal - the creation of the being of immediate optimal response, the being called in the New Testament the "quick", as opposed to the "dead". The "dead" is the being ruled by inertia, able to respond to a new stimulus only in an old way. Ultimately only the "quick" will survive, for the "dead" will have failed to adapt to the ever increasing demand for more adequate response to the world-stimulus situation. | 62 |
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| 94. The Absolute creative activity is a process within itself, whereby it produces finite or limited forms simply as functions of itself. Wherever the Absolute Power sets up inside itself a rotation zone or impulse centre, there by that fact a being comes into existence. The word "existence" in its origin implies the creation of a zone of rotation, a wheel of force, or a point of affirmation of power. | 242 |
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| 5. Certain elements are found more strongly stressed in the so-called male, and certain other elements in the so-called female. It is because of these stressed elements that we have coined the terms "male" and "female", or man and woman. Men and women are simply human beings in which certain functions are stressed more strongly than others. Some human beings are so constituted that the stressed function in them is not clearly marked, and in many others the stress moves from one element to another with more or less clearness of expression and often with noticeable periodicity. | 18 |
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| 88. With its infinite sentience, before creation, the Absolute feels its infinite power as an unlimited potential of creative activity. It feels this as an infinite, unformulated yearning which creative activity alone can assuage. This is why it is said, "God is Love", and "God so loved the world. . ." | 224 |
| 88. With its infinite sentience, before creation, the Absolute feels its infinite power as an unlimited potential of creative activity. It feels this as an infinite, unformulated yearning which creative activity alone can assuage. This is why it is said, "God is Love", and "God so loved the world. . ." | 224 |
| 145. But the Absolute, absolutely aware of itself and of its creative power, wills, like all healthy beings, to increase its expressions, to multiply, to create for itself an infinite number of vehicles for itself to carry its creative activity into infinity. This is why we say, "God created us for himself". | 378 |
| 147. Just as the initiative and formulating power of the Absolute enters into, animates and formulates universal prime matter, so the Absolute requires man's initiative and formulative power to enter into the soul and body of woman for their joint elevation. "God is the head of man, and man is the head of woman." | 384 |
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| 122. In the Indian myth earlier commented on, we saw that when God created a consort for himself in order to have someone with whom to relate, and through whom to generate further forms, she ran away from him, saying "I am you". In saying "I am you", she said by implication that she and God were not two. But if this were so relations would be impossible, for relation implies more than one. | 314 |
| 122. In the Indian myth earlier commented on, we saw that when God created a consort for himself in order to have someone with whom to relate, and through whom to generate further forms, she ran away from him, saying "I am you". In saying "I am you", she said by implication that she and God were not two. But if this were so relations would be impossible, for relation implies more than one. | 314 |
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| 61. By ideation we mean that function of the male-stressed consciousness which constrains it to formulate ideas in the mind. (The word "idea" derives from the Greek word for form or shape). To ideate is to produce forms in the mind. The essential character of idea or form is its definability, its clarity of characteristic contour, whereby we can see clearly the difference between one thing and another. The ideating male consciousness is concerned with the formal relations of things and ideas, the necessary mode in which things must operate, the mechanical inter-action of things, the "know-how" of things and events. It is concerned with the mathematico-logical analysis of every phenomenon in the universe and beyond. It is pre-occupied with universally valid principles and therefore with the abstract, and therefore opposes and complements the female feeling stress, which occupies itself with the personal, particular and concrete relation. | 154 |
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| 7. Power to initiate change we may call simply "initiative". Power to formulate we may call "ideation". Power to feel we may call "sentience" (from Latin "sentire", to feel). Power to resist change, which is mass inertia, we may call "substantiality", or in a certain sense, "body". | 22 |
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| 7. Power to initiate change we may call simply "initiative". Power to formulate we may call "ideation". Power to feel we may call "sentience" (from Latin "sentire", to feel). Power to resist change, which is mass inertia, we may call "substantiality", or in a certain sense, "body". | 22 |
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| 40. When some women failed to exhibit at certain times the qualities of rational initiative so useful to men, men tended to become confused. "Surely," said men, "It is true that women as well as men are human, and must therefore be equipped with powers of initiative and ideation? Must it not therefore be proper for us to expect women to choose rationally what to do and to do it?" | 104 |
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| 61. By ideation we mean that function of the male-stressed consciousness which constrains it to formulate ideas in the mind. (The word "idea" derives from the Greek word for form or shape). To ideate is to produce forms in the mind. The essential character of idea or form is its definability, its clarity of characteristic contour, whereby we can see clearly the difference between one thing and another. The ideating male consciousness is concerned with the formal relations of things and ideas, the necessary mode in which things must operate, the mechanical inter-action of things, the "know-how" of things and events. It is concerned with the mathematico-logical analysis of every phenomenon in the universe and beyond. It is pre-occupied with universally valid principles and therefore with the abstract, and therefore opposes and complements the female feeling stress, which occupies itself with the personal, particular and concrete relation. | 154 |
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| 84. The word "create" indicates something of this. It is derived from a root "kra" which, read boustrophedon, gives also "ark" or "arc". Not to be deceived with a flat earth image the completed arc gives a circle, which is an easy-to-represent symbol on a plane surface of a sphere, the sphere being the ultimate or original type of all created things. | 214 |
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| 5. Certain elements are found more strongly stressed in the so-called male, and certain other elements in the so-called female. It is because of these stressed elements that we have coined the terms "male" and "female", or man and woman. Men and women are simply human beings in which certain functions are stressed more strongly than others. Some human beings are so constituted that the stressed function in them is not clearly marked, and in many others the stress moves from one element to another with more or less clearness of expression and often with noticeable periodicity. | 18 |