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28. Because like forms have only low stimulus value for each other the Tacit Conspiracy was devised as a means of hiding the basic identity of beings, and presenting an appearance of differences which ultimately ontologically must be said to be illusory, being merely functional and not absolute differences.	74
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29. The Tacit Conspiracy hides from polarised beings their ultimate non-differences, and thus helps the creation of tension-relations between beings, which otherwise could not exist.	76
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3. Before proceeding with the subject we must stress strongly a most important point, which, if it be properly assimilated, will save considerable misunderstanding of the relation between man and woman, and thus avoid much unnecessary and unprofitable argument, and subsequent unhappiness.	14
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30. Let us borrow an Indian myth to illustrate the point. Before creation, says this myth, God was alone. Suddenly He realised His aloneness. Thereupon He created for Himself a consort with whom He tried to copulate. But His consort, knowing Him to be her origin and thus identical with her, refused to relate herself to Him, and fled. He pursued her. She changed into various animal forms, but each time she changed He caught her. Thus from their various conjunctions came forth all the creatures of the universe.	78
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31. The important point to note here is, that after being created by God, His consort, knowing Him to be her origin, and thus seeing herself as non-different from Him, fled away from Him. As identical beings their stimulus value to each other would be very low. By fleeing from Him she created an actuality difference, that is a difference of mode of action which immediately raised her stimulus value to Him. He, delighted with the new stimulus emergent, joyously pursued her. Each time she changed her form the stimulus value of the new mode of relation climbed to a higher level. La donna e mobile. Here is the root of woman's pre-occupation with changing fashions.	80
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32. To keep up the level of the stimulus value and to increase it, it would appear that the basic identity of all beings as rooted in the Absolute would be better left unexpressed; or it would have been, if it had not been for the dialectical arising of confusion in man about the nature of polarised sexual relations between man and woman.	82
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33. Through the suppression of the knowledge of the fundamental identity of male and female there gradually arose the erroneous idea that the two sexes were basically different and mutually exclusive, each sex having its own sphere of clearly marked function, a product of its own essence. Men holding this view at one time reached the point of saying that men have souls and women do not.	90
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34. This separation of the sexes as two basically different beings led to the abstraction of male and female elements from each other, the foreshadowing of future war between the sexes.	92
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35. In response to this abstractionist analysis of the fact of sexual functional differences, women tried to establish matriarchal societies. Men replied by setting up counter-systems on a patriarchal basis. The struggle developed in peculiar ways. The Amazon women cut off their right breast in order safely to draw a bow string and shoot their arrows at the Greeks. Elsewhere men raped the Sabine women and carried them to slavery.	94
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36. Men's superior initiative and ideation, put into muscle power, set them up nearly everywhere as authorities over women. Men's abuse of this authority, from failure to understand the nature of polarised relations, compelled women to react violently in a struggle to re-state the equal rights which in principle all parts of human protoplasm were made to enjoy.	96
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37. In their struggle for equality women forgot the principle that says that identical forms have low stimulus value for each other. They fought to become like men. From the depths of their being, as women always will when men forget the real nature and purpose of their polarised relation, the women brought forth their long dormant initiative and ideational power. They claimed equal rights as human beings, rights to which, as four-part human beings, they were as much entitled as were men.	98
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38. Unfortunately however, instead of interpreting the revolt of women correctly as resulting from a failure on the part of men to comprehend the nature of polarised relation and the Tacit Conspiracy, men began to accept in part the women's claims. Was it not obvious during the struggle to free themselves from slavery that women had exhibited qualities of initiative and ideational rationality like those previously believed to be confined to men?	100
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39. Men began to accept women as being capable of rational initiative. More than this, men began to enjoy the thought that women had such qualities, and to expect them to exhibit them always.	102
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4. This most important point may shortly be stated by saying that every human being possesses both male and female elements. Whatever is here asserted of either male or female must be understood to apply in some degree to every human being. No male is merely male; no female is merely female. The differences between the so-called male and the so-called female is a difference of stress only. Every human being is a polarised being in itself possessing both male and female elements.	16
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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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41. Women for their part, as soon as they had gained the freedom they desired, began to resume their feminine behaviour-patterns. They began to abandon the initiative and rationality they had exhibited, or rather, to let these qualities sink back again into the depths from which they had conjured them, feeling that all would now be well, and that men would accept them once again as women and partners to the Tacit Conspiracy.	106
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42. But men reacted strangely to the re-statement of women's non-rational behaviour patterns by drawing up from their own depths (as did long ago the Greeks when they had failed to comprehend the law of polarisation) their own opposite polar stresses. From the depths of their protoplasm men called up their own latent femaleness. Hysteria no longer confined itself to the female.	108
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43. Let us examine how an average man now tends to respond to non-rational behaviour in his female consort. He has a concept that women can be rational. This is supported by the insistence of women that they have equal rights with men. (During the war women convincingly did jobs previously classed as jobs for men. And a significant percentage of women stopped menstruation for some years).	110
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44. Man therefore tends to talk rationally to and to expect a rational response from his female consort. Sometimes he receives the response he expects. Sometimes he does not. At this point trouble tends to begin for him, and possibly for his consort.	112
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45. When a man fails to get a rational response to his rational requests, alternative patterns of behaviour are open to him. Either he may re-state his earlier belief that women are inherently irrational, or he may come to believe that his consort is deliberately acting in an irrational manner for some feminine purpose of her own, without regard to the suffering it brings to him. This latter view is quite usual for the average man.	114
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46. The man who believes that his consort is acting irrationally from sheer, deliberate bad will tends to suffer emotionally from her action. He feels disorientated, impotent to deal with her. He may fall into hysterical reaction himself or descend to physical violence in an attempt to restore her to rationality. He may become estranged from her. He cannot yet let go of his belief in the rationality potential of woman. So he tends to drift away from his consort, gravitating naturally towards any other woman who, for whatever reasons, shows him some sympathy. He tends now to believe that he has made a mistake in committing himself in relation with his consort. Somewhere, he now believes, there is the woman he should have found before, the one destined for him. It does not matter how many times he falls into new relations with women who disillusion him. Always he tends to believe that somewhere there is a woman who will act rationally and sympathetically, and who was obviously made for him. He does not yet realise how much of this is the woman in himself seeking a husband-protector.	116
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47. Meanwhile other women, their own polarised relations gone astray, are preparing to resume the appearance of rationality for any man who appeals to them, up to the time they can consolidate the relation with him, whereupon they will again allow the re-emergence of their natural female non-rational stress.	118
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48. Almost always the man who has suffered from the non-rational behaviour of a woman develops the idea that somewhere another woman, intended for him by nature, waits for him, the one he should have married, the one who would anticipate all his desires and fulfil them, the one who, if he got her, would completely stop his further evolution; la belle dame sans merci.	120
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49. Man's evolution to higher levels of being depends on the creation and maintenance of polarisation tensions which absolute identity of outlook and action cannot give. Too much agreement too soon secured may stop man’s development and hold him on a plane of being he should long ago have transcended.	124
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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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50. If women were to act always rationally and with initiative in discovering solutions to all their life's problems, the tension between man and woman, so necessary for the development of human evolution, would tend to disappear. And this disappearance of polarisation tension between himself and his consort is what most men desire, and believe themselves right so to do.	126
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51. For human beings to get back into right polar relation it is now necessary for the re-presentation of the doctrine of the Tacit Conspiracy. Only by conscious re-statement of its significance will man and woman be able to relate themselves harmoniously together without destroying the tensions of polarity so necessary for human evolution.	128
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52. The whole human being is a four-quality being of initiative, rationality, feeling and body orientation or inertia. We may say this in various ways. We may say the human being has spirit, mind, soul and body. Spirit is initiative, the producer of change and source of the other three. Mind is the ideation function, rationality. Soul is the feeling awareness of the self. Body is mass inertia of energy, producing resistance or stability, or a centre of reference for consciousness.	132
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53. If every being had all four qualities equally stressed, in perfect balance, the stimulus value of every being would be equal. Choice would then be meaningless, for one would have no reason to choose to relate to one person than to another, or to any rather than to oneself, as did Narcissus.	134
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54. By stressing certain qualities in some beings and other qualities in others, the stimulus value of being is differentiated and so increased. Increase of stimulus value in general means the possibility of increased response, and so of further evolution.	136
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55. Human beings in the sexually polarised state have each the stress laid on one pair of the four qualities. In the male, initiative and ideation are stressed: in the female the stress is on feeling and body processes.	138
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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
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57. Initiative, part of the male stress in the human being, the introducer of new directions of activity, is necessarily opposed to the female stress of mass-inertia, which we may call the body-conservative tendency. Male initiative and female body-conservation tendency complement each other. Both are necessary to the complete being. Without body to act upon, initiating forces would have no resistance or centre of reference upon which to impress themselves, and into which to introduce change. The bondage of matter is as necessary to existential evolution as is the initiative force of free spirit.	144
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58. Spirit without body to serve as its vehicle and centre of reference could not experience things or express itself in Time. Body without spirit to animate it would remain an inert mass, dark and unprofitable. Each is necessary to the other; neither in fact can exist in the time process without the other.	146
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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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6. Every human being has four basic elements or qualities, all functions of the source power from which all beings derive. The four basic elements may be expressed as, power to initiate change; power to formulate; power to feel; power to resist change.	20
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60. Just as initiative spirit and body-matter or mass inertia are opposed to and complement each other, so the ideation power of the male opposes and complements the feeling and emotional stress in the female.	152
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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