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151. He is to remember at all times that woman is obeying the deep will of the Universal Mother, or Prima Materia, from which she derives; that she is compelled by her female nature to present him with the opposition necessary for him to attain the goal set for him by the Absolute. He is to see her as the mirror of all his actions, in which he can see himself as such a being who stands at the evolutionary level from which such actions spring.	394
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152. Universal Matter has three phases. The first is that in which, having been created, it is considered as left without external stimulation and so is inert, dark and morbid, profoundly melancholy. This we abbreviate to M1, by which we mean Melancholy Mary (Mary has the same meaning as Mare, the Sea), and is used to express the idea of Universal Substance as a great ocean of plastic material which the Absolute, in its character of initiative spirit, blows upon to produce the great waves of creative activity we know as the involution and evolution of the universe.	398
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153. Phase Two of the Universal Matter is that phase of activity that is exhibited when the Absolute power acts upon it and so formulates it in myriads of different ways, the whole process provoking its sentience aspect into all forms of desire and strange longings for further stimulation. This phase we abbreviate to M2, by which we mean Magical Mary, the universal ocean presenting itself as phantasy and magical practices, precipitations of desire aiming to hold spirit in its embrace, as Samson was held by Delilah, to his undoing. This phase is that in which the Absolute Spirit, as it were, tests itself for its power to extricate itself from the fascination of substantial existence.	400
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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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155. The three phases of universal matter reflect themselves at the human level in three like phases in women.	406
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156. M1 is woman when she is deprived of all stimulation from outside herself. It is experienced as a state of melancholy or black despair, almost a state of abyssal non-being.	408
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157. M2 is woman when she is presented with a stimulus situation, usually involving a man, in which she feels driven to display every aspect of capacity for fantastic behaviour. This magical display is designed to provoke the chosen man to exhibit his reaction tendencies and so to expose any weakness he may possess. If the man fails to see through her fantastic displays and becomes enamoured of her to the point of losing his self-control, he is counted as no more than an occasion of the self-witness of power in the woman, and of himself not worthy and not to be obeyed. For the deep Universal Mater speaking through woman says that she must obey only he who can conquer her.	410
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158. M3 is the phase in woman when, having encountered a man and, having tried all the magical practices of the M2 phase on him, she has failed to break his self-control, she decides to obey him as her legitimate lord.	412
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159. The ultimate aim of the Absolute is the creation of reflexive self-conscious vehicles for the realisation of its infinitely creative purpose.	416
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16. If we consider the division of a being into like parts, and the fusing together of these parts in order again to divide, fuse, and divide, and so on, we see a type of activity which by its very nature is not likely to create any peculiar tensions which might result in the appearance of a new kind of reaction, which, being transmitted to the descendants, might prove of greater life-value.	44
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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
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161. The resec man knows himself right through to the ultimate source of his being. Therefore he is absolute and acts absolutely. Nothing greater than this is possible in existence, and because this implies the fulfilment of his will absolutely, nothing greater than this is desirable. To this end it becomes a man to meditate upon and to understand the depths and heights of the Tacit Conspiracy.	420
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162. We will recapitulate.	424
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163. Man and woman are both human, both beings of fourfold nature. Because of the low stimulus level of identical beings, the Absolute introduced into itself the polar differences of Initiative Force and Universal Matter.	426
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164. At the human level these polar differences express themselves as sexual stresses with their corresponding physical qualities. The male receives a stress on initiative and ideo-rationality. The female is stressed on body-orientation and feeling.	426
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165. By the increased tension arising from their differentiated stresses the stimulus-value of the relations of man and woman is greatly increased. From increased stimulus-value arises the possibility of greater self-awareness and the movement towards resec and absoluteness.	428
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166. The man who sees the tremendous value of resec will affirm whatever may be necessary for its attainment. He will be prepared to expose himself to the most intimate of all relations, without any reservation whatever, in order to disclose himself to himself in the uttermost depths and heights of his being.	430
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167. To this end he will commit himself fully into relation with the woman of his choice. He will not withdraw from this relation where, through the penetrating scrutiny of his consort, it becomes difficult and unpleasant.	432
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168. He will remember that woman, committed into relation with man, is under the impulsion from the Universal Mother to fulfil her part of the Tacit Conspiracy, however inadequately she may verbally express it.	434
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169. Woman knows that it is her part of the Tacit Conspiracy to present man's initiative and ideorational power with a feeling substance in which to impress his form, so that he can see what he is doing and at what evolutionary level he stands.	436
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17. But if we imagine the sexual or polarised mode of coming together of beings, we see at once that the difference of the two beings, the differences of their stressed functions, must help to create the type of tension-relation we would expect to result in the appearance of new reaction characteristics.	46
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170. She is to provide him with the resistance necessary for the growth of his self-awareness so that he can see where in himself he needs to work to perfect his being, and fulfil the Absolute's purpose for him. The Absolute will not permit woman to be fully satisfied with a man less than perfect.	438
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171. It is man's part to verbalise the meaning of the universe he experiences, and to make clear to himself and to his consort the rationale of the Tacit Conspiracy, so that she can devote herself in love to fulfilling its meaning, and return to him the significance of his words and deeds, and to embody their essence in her substance so that the next generation, which is to spring from her body, will start its existence with a true orientation and the deep inner security that comes from this, and so be enabled to take its next upwards step towards the goal in full confidence of the meaning of its act.	440
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172. The child born of a man and woman who understand the full implications of the Tacit Conspiracy, and who have committed themselves to the work of regaining the absolute relation possible to reflexive self-conscious beings, is a child born with both feet firmly placed on the path that leads into life. To such children belongs the work of world reclamation, the creation of the new earth which shall reflect the new heaven which shall herald itself in their minds.	442
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173. When energy is low and things appear dark and unpromising, man tends to wish for easier tasks, or even for the elimination of tasks altogether. At such times the difficulties of polarised relations may make him tend to wish himself free from his consort. Let him then remember the goal and the only means to its realisation, and reaffirm his committal.	444
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174. Socrates had a wife so busy-tongued that, after listening to her contribution to philosophy, he was able to defeat in argument any man in Greece, a Greece so rich in intellect that no nation has surpassed it since.	446
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175. Heaven consists in the equilibration of power.	448
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176. The rabbis have said, "A man cannot go to heaven without a wife".	450
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18. If we observe under a microscope the fusion of two like cells into one we observe some degree of excitement in the two cells, such as we should expect from the reunion of the previously separated parts of the original cell from which they were derived. It appears rather like the process of self-excitation one experiences on looking into a mirror after a fairly long absence from it. Not much more.	48
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19. But if we observe the behaviour of a sperm in its approach to the ovum which it aims to fertilise, we see an excitement of a much more intense order. It appears that the sperm's excitement on approaching the ovum is far higher than that of the cell which is simply a non-specialised or non-polarised part of an original cell. Specialisation of the sperm in relation to the ovum appears to have increased the excitement they experience as they approach conjunction. This increased excitement is the measure of the degree of polarisation or sexual differentiation the relating partners have undergone. More precisely it is the sperm, the male element, which differentiates itself and thus increases the difference between itself and the ovum. The ovum itself remains close to the original life form in its simplest state. Omne vivo ab ovo. The egg may be viewed as functionally conservative, the sperm as liberal-individualist, determined to introduce some change in the conservative party. Labour, of course, comes later.	50
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2. If The Tacit Conspiracy we here discuss, brought to be for the generation of evolutionarily necessary relational tensions, were universally known we would have no occasion to break silence about it. But because its original significance has in general lapsed from man's consciousness, with the resulting production of considerable suffering to the human race, it becomes expedient for us to present a sufficient outline of the doctrine so that those who are able to grasp its significance may begin to orientate themselves to the relational problems of human sexual polarity.	10
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20. Polarisation or sexual differentiation then, creates new tension-relations which naturally tend to produce new reaction-characteristics which may be transmitted to the off-spring, and better serve higher life-functions.	52
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21. Let us consider this a little more closely. If we imagine a cell to split into equal halves with like characteristics in each half, and these halves to fuse together again, we have no ground to assume any great tension or excitement when the two conjoin. Their similarity means that they have little stimulus-value for each other. They cannot stimulate each other in new ways, and therefore cannot produce new responses.	56
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22. But if we imagine a cell to split into two halves and one of the halves to compact itself and change its shape (as a sperm cell does), we see at once that by so doing this half has created a new kind of stimulus, which must produce a new kind of reaction. The increased excitation in the ovum produces new energy expressions, new functions and processes, which may be so accelerated that they result in the precipitation of new characteristics, some of which may further life's evolutionary purpose.	58
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23. Within certain limits the greater the excitement generated when two differentiated cells conjoin, the more likely it is that the life-forces will be provoked into new types of reaction, new patterns of response to the life-environment. Polarised union thus tends to further the creation of new life functions which may well advance the evolving life-forms far further in less time than would be possible by a non-polarised mode of conjunction.	60
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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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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
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26. The most efficient way to create new relational tensions is to create differences of form and function in the beings intended to relate. This creation of formal and functional relational differences is what we mean by polarisation. The most obvious example is in the genital organs of the sexes, which are obviously evolved for reciprocal relations. But the more inward and subtle polarisations are of equal importance in their own spheres of functional relation.	68
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27. The polarisation of life forms by sexual differentiation creates the new relational tensions needed to lift life onto higher functional levels. And it does this in less and less time. Polarisation saves time. The speed at which a sperm travels relative to its size is far greater than that of the non-polarised mono-cell. For untold millions of years the non-polarised amoeba has crawled the waters of the earth without changing its form. Polarisation of life forms has accelerated evolution and with the appearance of man has attained a velocity before unequalled.	70