"MASCULINE-PROTEST"................................1
117. If man ceases to act upon woman, the power in woman will tend to return to its absoluteness, that is, will tend to exhibit qualities of initiative and formalising power which were before held in a state of latency. This is the origin of the so-called "masculine-protest" exhibited by women in certain circumstances. The cure for masculine protest in women is the honouring by men of their part in the Tacit Conspiracy.	302
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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
"QUICK"............................................4
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
25. New relational tensions, if properly assimilated, create new life values. Any method of creating new relational tensions, providing the organism can adjust to them, furthers the evolution of higher life forms and moves towards the creation of the "quick" being whose speed of stimulus adaptation and assimilation is so great that nothing in the universe can overthrow its equilibrium. Such a "quick" being has attained the state of reflexive self-consciousness (which we abbreviate to "resec"), which is the mark of the being able to respond immediately and adequately to the stimulus situation presented. (See the book called "Reflexive Self-Consciousness").	66
25. New relational tensions, if properly assimilated, create new life values. Any method of creating new relational tensions, providing the organism can adjust to them, furthers the evolution of higher life forms and moves towards the creation of the "quick" being whose speed of stimulus adaptation and assimilation is so great that nothing in the universe can overthrow its equilibrium. Such a "quick" being has attained the state of reflexive self-consciousness (which we abbreviate to "resec"), which is the mark of the being able to respond immediately and adequately to the stimulus situation presented. (See the book called "Reflexive Self-Consciousness").	66
"REFLEXIVE.........................................1
25. New relational tensions, if properly assimilated, create new life values. Any method of creating new relational tensions, providing the organism can adjust to them, furthers the evolution of higher life forms and moves towards the creation of the "quick" being whose speed of stimulus adaptation and assimilation is so great that nothing in the universe can overthrow its equilibrium. Such a "quick" being has attained the state of reflexive self-consciousness (which we abbreviate to "resec"), which is the mark of the being able to respond immediately and adequately to the stimulus situation presented. (See the book called "Reflexive Self-Consciousness").	66
"RESEC"............................................1
25. New relational tensions, if properly assimilated, create new life values. Any method of creating new relational tensions, providing the organism can adjust to them, furthers the evolution of higher life forms and moves towards the creation of the "quick" being whose speed of stimulus adaptation and assimilation is so great that nothing in the universe can overthrow its equilibrium. Such a "quick" being has attained the state of reflexive self-consciousness (which we abbreviate to "resec"), which is the mark of the being able to respond immediately and adequately to the stimulus situation presented. (See the book called "Reflexive Self-Consciousness").	66
"SECOND............................................1
160. Reflexive self-consciousness (resec) is not attained without continuous effort and dedication. Nor should it be, for it is the supreme value. Its implications are so vast that it would not be possible even to outline them here, but we may say that the man who attains resec becomes immortal, becomes so much himself, so much a unity, that nothing whatever can break his integration. After the death of his material body he remains himself, free from the post-mortem processes which affect the non-resec soul's subtle body, and which are called the "second death".	418
"SENTIENCE"........................................1
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
"SENTIRE"..........................................1
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
"STILL.............................................1
143. So a man finds himself in the relation which, if he knew its full meaning, he would call the Tacit Conspiracy. He finds himself married. He is now in possession of the one thing that will help him to see himself objectively, a female consort who has some legal rights in his person. (Without the legal rights it is not usual for a help-meet to reach the full heights of power to help man's evolution to higher levels of being. It is so easy for the unmarried man to go home to his own bed, and thus avoid the most fruitful time for evolving awareness of one's stimulus reaction-level, the "still small hours of the night").	374
"SUBSTANTIALITY"...................................1
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
"SURELY............................................1
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
"THE...............................................1
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
"THING"............................................1
92. The Absolute is not a thing, not a finite or limited substance. Because it is not a thing and yet is the source of all things, we have to say that things are created out of nothing. A thing is merely a finited zone of activity within the infinite no-thing, which is the Absolute. The word "nothing" is simply the negation of the word "thing". As a thing is a limited function of the unlimited, a negative zone of restricted activity, it is correct for us to refer to a thing as negative. If then we negate the negative, that is, eliminate a limited being, what results is the re-affirmation of the unlimited Absolute as it is before creation. Two negatives here make a positive, as they do grammatically.	236
"TO................................................1
142. Here is inserted the old sugar-on-the-pill trick. If man finds it too hard alone to examine himself objectively and raise himself to higher levels of being, perhaps a little help would be appreciated. And so at Adam's request Eve was given to him as a help-meet. And Eve means "to develop life's potential". Later, Paul was to say, "Two walk better than one".	372
"TWO...............................................1
142. Here is inserted the old sugar-on-the-pill trick. If man finds it too hard alone to examine himself objectively and raise himself to higher levels of being, perhaps a little help would be appreciated. And so at Adam's request Eve was given to him as a help-meet. And Eve means "to develop life's potential". Later, Paul was to say, "Two walk better than one".	372
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[ new behaviour patterns & accelerated life-form development ]	54
'SUBSTANCE’S.......................................1
59. Man's curiosity about the universe and his determination to change it, derives from the Absolute's drive to raise man's understanding to the level of reflexive-awareness of the Absolute's power in evolution. Woman's desire to centre everything in matter and primarily in her own body, derives from the universal 'substance’s drive to the conservation of vales. Both man and woman are driven from above by the forces of the Absolute and Universal Being to further the evolution of the reflexively self-conscious beings necessary for the self-realisation of the Eternal in the Time Process. The opposition and mutually complementing qualities of male initiative and female body inertia both derive from the essential nature of the Absolute, or ultimate source of all things.	148
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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
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1. A tacit conspiracy is a silent agreement not to comment on or to discuss some thing, event, or relation which is understood, but which for certain reasons is considered better unexpressed.	8
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10. We may call the sexually differentiated man and woman polarised beings. Let us consider the difference between polarised and non-polarised relations between beings.	30
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100. The relation of Absolute Initiative to Universal Mass-Inertia is the transcendent source of the relation at the human level of man and woman, and the origin of the Tacit Conspiracy.	258
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101. The Absolute is ultimately all there is. Prior to creation, whatever creative potentials it has remain unexpressed. To develop its creative potentials in manifestation the Absolute has created firstly the prima materia to serve as the necessary negative pole of being upon which the Absolute as supreme positive power may work to further its evolutionary purpose.	260
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102. The universal prime matter may be thought of in various ways. We may think of it as a first step necessary to the creation of further productions of higher and higher complexity. We may view it as the foundation or basis on which is to be erected the whole structure of the universe.	262
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103. We may also view the prima materia as the universal mother-substance, or Hyle, which is to bring forth from inside itself, like a mother, whatever the Absolute Power has put into it.	266
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104. When we view the prime matter as the mother of all created beings, we are forced to look on the Absolute source as the Father which impregnates the mother substance with its infinity of forms.	268
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105. When we name the Absolute as Father and the Prime Matter produced from it as the Mother, we are seeing the meaning of the Old Testament statement that Eve was taken out of Adam. It means that Universal Substance or prime matter is produced from and by the Absolute Power.	270
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106. We may consider the creation of prime matter by the Absolute as the first polarisation of Absolute Power: the Absolute acting as positive, prime matter standing as negative. Without this polarisation of force and matter within the Absolute no further creation would be possible. The prime matter stands as that upon which the creative force may work to produce the universe of forms. Absolute power acts as initiator of changes and producer of formal values in prime matter. Here is the root of the polarity of the sexes we see in life forms on earth.	272
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107. Once the original polarity of the Father and Mother, or Absolute Power and Universal Matter, becomes operative, the relational tensions of the Tacit Conspiracy begin to show themselves in the involutionary and evolutionary cycle of life. These relational tensions aim at and are the guarantee of the ultimate attainment of the Absolute's purpose, the creation and development of certain beings to the level of reflexive self-consciousness, such beings functioning ultimately as vehicles embodying the will of the Absolute to reflect upon its own being and creative purpose, and to centre itself existentially.	276
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108. Without the creation of Prime Matter to act upon, the Absolute Power would have nothing to model, nothing on which to exert its formative power. Without the power of the Absolute to act upon the prime matter, this matter would remain inert and undeveloped.	278
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109. Because ultimately there is nothing other than the Absolute Sentient Power, it follows that wherever this power produces any being, that being must have a two-fold aspect of sentience and power. And because sentience is always concerned with the feeling states of substance, and power is pre-occupied with initiative formulating processes, every created being must have the four-fold quality we have outlined.	280
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11. If we imagine a non-polarised being like a single-celled primitive animal, say an amoeba, dividing in order to multiply its chances of survival, we see that if, after division, two of the resultant cells come together and fuse into one, the state of that one is similar to what it was before division. No new marked characteristic shows itself. The division of a cell into parts, the subsequent coming together of the divided parts, and their fusion again into a unity, adds nothing new to the cell's nature.	34
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110. Sentience and substance are intimately related, as what is experienced as feeling is the state of being of a substance; a being feels only the modifications of its own substance; it feels a stimulus only insofar as it modifies its substance.	286
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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