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The Majesty of Sex
Nancy McKay Gordon
“Job’s wish that his enemy had written a book, trite as it is, we
fear is not half apprehended, at least by those who have never
put their hand to perform the like. Book means back, or that which is
exposed. I gave my back to the smiters.’ Hence to write a book, the
book of one’s most sacred and cherished thoughts, is to expose the
personality at its weakest and most unguarded points”
PREFACE
IN presenting this unsolved theme to her readers, the author has not only suggested the way but has given to them a truth—not a secret. This she cannot do, for there is no secret save that which the soul unveils for itself! Those who are seeking an antidote for the so-called Sex-question, or the solution of any other social problem, will not find it in this book. But for all those who are seeking the heart of things and the center of their own being, the book will prove elucidative; to those who have found what they are seeking, there is no elucidation necessary.
The GREAT ART, the Science of Regeneration, may be taught up to a certain point; when this is reached, each individual must do the WORK himself. But care must be taken that no part of the WORK be neglected; therefore, this book is written for and given to those who desire to know the WAY.
N. M. G.
INTRODUCTION
THE work of redemption has been called the Great Work. The mediaeval alchemists have written of it in their own mysterious jargon. How often have they confounded their readers in their sulphurs and sublimations, while heating them in their many vessels and vases! And to think that things are heated because not otherwise available!—The alchemists have done kingly service to all their readers.
The earth is a kettle in which many things are “done.” Many of the “things” are done; multitudes are ready to digest themselves, a coarse term for transmuting themselves. These are all great souls, and to them mysteries should be made plain. Upon the full assurance that an exposition will be of no service to the undeserving, this work is published—but also with a view to the fact that the majority of the American people are ready and waiting for vibratory life. Man need not at the present time, for any golden purpose whatever, be divided into so many fires, or woman into so many vessels. Nor need the number of fixations and sublimations be given; for, when once begun, the work will end well, and those concerned will know it, even without a knowledge of what the old fire-philosophers meant by their dubious terms.
The present tendency of this great Republic is onward—forever onward! A race of men and women, having passed through the fires of an old world, is once more coming into prominence; and memories of things eternal, but in expression gone by, are flashing brilliant scintillations into the world of the American people. Multitudes are seeking to lay hold of the fitful light. Men are not content with a life of motion merely, but yearn for the rapid vibrations. They want the celestial impetuosity of the gods. They intend to scale the heavens! But it is known that regeneration is necessary, and its science is desperately sought. Usually it is attempted to thwart the external law and cheat both earth and heaven, by denying and deadening the outer expression of Self in body and personality. This proves but the inevitable preparatory for entrance into the lofty halls of the archaic Science of Regeneration.
This science deals with the outer as the material whereof the inner is finished, and instructs in the laws of building without hands. The students learn that body and personality are not to be laid aside but to come into full and godly possession! The body is to be rarified of its density, and the personality made a true expression of its individuality. To be an individual without personality is the same as to have an existence without Being. It is the dire calamity of souls in Hades.
The rarification is done by transmutation. Transmutation is that process by which the natural motion of the life-essence of any given body is checked in its outward tendency, turned inward and utilized. The effect of it is that the body concerned is rejuvenated instead of wasted. In the process of time it loses its density, as the result of the wasting of non-essentials. Such a body then becomes an obedient instrument, and through it the light of the soul shines clearly forth. The man is translated into Godhood and the finite becomes Infinite. The body becomes soul; personality, the glorious expression of individuality; and the stirring vibrations of endless life pulsate through the godly Being!
The mysteries of Aphrodite is the science of regeneration; and transmutation is accomplished through that powerful agency named Love. As Love is the transmuting power, it is necessary to know Love. The present work introduces the Wanderer into Her holy presence. May he find what he seeks! May his wings grow strong!
Love is not self-control, and the word is not used in this work in such a sense. Men have practiced self-control for ages and found it but a preparation for the sacred festival. Love is celestial, destitute of control, in the reckless abandonment of souls.
The arrangement of paragraphs and contents of each, is left to chance, and this may prove the one obscurity of the work. However, one paragraph is complemented and explained by others.
In speaking of things celestial, one is apt to use strange terminology and still maintain that such is the most consistent. As the essence of the Universe is God, of belief truth, of Man spirit—so is the essence of language its meaning; and the external is apt to reflect the internal. JOHAX WASHUUS
THE earth is a globe badly made,” says Flammarion when he finds that a man on Neptune, forty years old, was born two thousand years before the building of the pyramids. This means that he enjoys a life of about one hundred and sixty-five years to the earthly man’s life of one year, or six thousand and six hundred years to forty. It is true that the earth is a sphere of intense rapidity, of impetuous motion and rigid measures! A testing place and a chamber of ordeal, perilous and final!
As a whole the globe symbolizes this chamber or womb, out of which all things come forth organized, and into which they again disappear glorified. This coming and disappearing is the universal operation of sex law. The sex law is also symbolized particularly in the shape and condition of the different parts of the globe. Thus it now appears, as it will even more clearly after we have deduced the great harmony from the particulars, that the earth is not so badly made, after all, but is a perfect expression of the one great Law—that of Sex. From flies to planets there is but this one mode of manifestation. When the Word was spoken into the Abyss it took effect according to this same law. The entire Universe was brought forth and is maintained through this mode and method. The mode and method of primal creation continues and will continue, and having observed this we name it the law of generation. Nothing is more perfect than THAT WHICH IS; and THAT WHICH IS expresses its perfection through the law of generation. The earth is not only expressed through this law but is, itself, a perfect image of this law in operation. It is a perfect dual unit within the great Universal Unit called the World. The great harmony consists of the beautiful interplaying of the two forces, masculine and feminine. As far as the earth is concerned, it seems that the interplaying is perfect, in-as-much as it is balanced in its course, and appears at regular intervals in Summer or Winter garb. How well do the centripetal and centrifugal forces interact, keeping the globe in her rightful course and condition!
As long as these do interplay well, this dual entity, the earth, will remain a whole in harmonious condition and will not swerve out of its course. So with man and woman. They constitute one dual entity, and as long as the two forces interact divinely, so long will they remain divine in harmony and unswerving wholeness. But as soon as one of them predominates or wanes, there will ensue either a furious conflagration in passionate sensuality, or an actual disintegration of the entity—even a solution into physical death!
To return to the earth on which we move and of which we have a part —by the shape and relative position of continents shall we know the destinies of nations and empires! The Western hemisphere has the most perfect shape, and its different parts have occupied the most fortunate positions to each other, of all countries, for millions of years. It will be noticed by consulting maps of the world at different periods, that the triangular shaped continent is always tapering southward. This is the case all around the globe at the present day, but more especially so with the American portion of it. This part is nearly perfect. And it is but reasonable to infer that perfection appears uniformly throughout the Universe—thus perfections in continents follow the perfections in mankind, and, on a lower scale, vice versa.
When a perfect nation shall appear upon earth, a perfect continent in shape, position and condition shall be found prepared for it. Perfection consists in the most beautiful harmony with the law of creation. This law is not that of generation only, but of regeneration as well; a harmonious interplaying of the two creative forces.
It will be found that the different parts of the Western hemisphere are so situated as to make such a harmonious interplay readily practicable. Herein lies the greatness of the America to come. It is not perfect, nor will it be, but it approaches perfection, and there are immense future possibilities!
THE North Pole is of a masculine nature, while that of the South is feminine. A continuous intercourse is forever taking place between these two centers. By this interaction, the forces are utilized into life abundant, which springs forth in all manner of manifestation. From the Northern pole is projected a triangular continent. Relative to the pole this triangle is feminine and receives all the energetic vigor of that Northern center—while, at the same time, like a benediction and anointment out of an overflowing vessel, it bathes the projector in its feminine balm. But this continent is not only feminine; it is also, in respect to South America, masculine. It is not only the feminine triangle, but also the masculine triad. As this latter, it projects the masculine energy into the Southern continent which, relative to it, is feminine in both shape, position and condition. This same Southern triangle is also, relative to the South Pole, a masculine triad.
As the Northern triangle anoints the Northern center with its femininity, so does the Southern triangle, in turn, anoint the Northern triad as out of a “horn of plenty”— while it again, as a triad, is bathed in the femininity of the Southern center into which it is pouring its masculinity. IT present, in this grand republic of ours, there is an abundance of cold, rugged grandeur in its masculine activity—an impetuosity that must, inevitably, if not tempered by the soothing gentleness of the South, revert in madness upon its own center and go to destruction in conflagration. This is one way of the world’s end.
In the Southern portion of this hemisphere there is at present such a degree of torpid, indolent stillness, that if not stirred by the crackling brand of activity from the North, it must inevitably relapse in faintness upon its own watery center and find its end and disintegration in a deluge. This is the other way of the world’s end; and the theologians and physicists need wrangle no longer about it—they are all partly right, though mostly wrong!
Evidently, however, neither of these calamities are to happen. The relative position of continents and condition of nations on this Western hemisphere, are such as to prophesy the evolution of a wonderful race of men and women, as well as a civilization heretofore not attained—while all cataclysms of importance will occur on the Eastern hemisphere, as a natural consequence of its conditions and structure.
Already the vigor of the North is pouring into Mexico, which is the southern of the three angles; while it in turn pours over the North the gentleness from its feminine cornucopia. Through it the continent of South America will be affected in the same way, and will also affect.
Some day there will be a thunderous cry for the integrity of America instead of the lesser one of integrity of the Union, which was but a precursor to the coming. Then again will gods be walking upon the earth; such men and women as will know how to utilize their forces, not only as well as the earth does, but infinitely better! Then will the true scientific religion come into higher vogue than ever. Of this religion, always uppermost at the high tide of civilizations, as well as at the tribal infancy where it lingers as memories of former greatness, we have remnants scattered over the entire globe, as well as vague recollections among every people. It is called the Phallic religion. It is the worship of man’s own godliness which is, indeed, the only godliness he is concerned with. To woman, man is her only god and savior; to man, woman is his only godhood and redeemer.
The specific organs through which their godliness is exercised and proven, have at such times, and more or less today, been revered and worshipped. We will look a little closer into this worship, and do so with reverence.
There have been times on earth when men and women worshipped each other and thus consecrated all believers; but, alas! as the cycle of retrogression set in, this grandeur became too dazzling to closing eyes, and the gods and goddesses were veiled in symbols. These symbols nearly always represented the generative organs which are also the regenerative ones. A peep into this symbolism will be instructive.
THE primeval faith of mankind was unmixed. From records of the earliest man, we may safely infer that it was Sun or Sex worship. According to these, Sun worship characterized all the earlier pagan races, and the most salient point in this religion was that of asceticism. This asceticism was the expression of its unmixed purity. The two dominant forces which have ever ruled humanity are man’s spiritual nature and his sex nature.
The first principle of earthly existence, whether in animal or Man, is the desire to produce and reproduce life. It is a sacred desire, and a paramount principle as grand as the birth of suns or the foundation of worlds. In the aggregate of the universe the creative functioning is the highest and most wonderful with which the human mind can invest Deity. And in the beginning of earthly existence it was thus considered.
In the remote ages when sex worship was incorporated into a religious ritual, the best and highest thoughts clustered around the subject of generation, elevating it to the pinnacle of holiness. Physical generation was considered the gateway whereby the soul entered upon its royal path of progression. Through this pathway of Love it was fitted for its celestial destiny—its re-entrance into its heavenly state. But in the process of time, as all sacred ideals are apt to be transformed into material expressions, the law of generation came to be regarded as a physical enjoyment. Stimulated by the excessive sensual nature of man, sex worship was dethroned from its pinnacle of Holiness—Wholeness. Hence through the wisdom of the philosophical priesthood the sacred truths were veiled.
Amongst these emblems of Sex or Sun worship, most generally seen and constantly combined with monumental antiquity, are the Phallus or Lingham, the triangle, the serpent with its tail in its mouth, and a vast number of geometrical figures, including the cross, square, and circle.
THE Bible, from beginning to end, teaches both Sun and Sex worship. These two religions are so inter-blended that it is impossible to separate them or give them a distinct definition. Jesus, the Christ, so entangled His teachings with those of the earlier Sun-gods—Apollo, Osiris and others—that even his birth has become confused with the day of the Sun’s rebirth; further he suffered himself to be crucified upon the cross which, ages before, was held in reverence all over the world as a sex symbol.
Sculptured over the temples of the orient is the cross in its many forms, and it signifies the generative power. It was originally represented as a trinity, and for this reason a sacredness was attributed to the number three. Every cross has its soul-ar—Sun-center. Every man who permits himself to be crucified becomes a Sun-Christ—veiled in human form. The soul thus reflecting its own radiance, is a Sun and mirror for the Divine glory of the redeemed man. When the soul returns to its center of Love, it regains its memory concerning its Divine Source and is lifted into complete consciousness of its own absoluteness.
The ancients recognized the Sun as the Giver of Life, and the center of the Universe; even the most savage gave vent to their religious joy in dancing, singing of psalms, and offering of sacrifice to the Giver. The nature and meaning of these religious rites were well known to the old Britons; and the rites of the Druids were an interblending of the Sun and Sex worship. There are now to be found in Great Britain piles of stone formed in circles, with others horizontally laid across them, all of which are remnants of the Druid Sun worship. The upright pillars are the Phallic, and the horizontal slabs are Yonic, while both together form the mystical gate of Tau.
The cross is found everywhere in the Universe from the letter T of the alphabet to the southern cross in the sky! The hammer of Thor with its flashes of lightning, is a masculine symbol; but the femininity of this same emblem is indicated by the Mayas of Yucatan when they send their supplication for rain and other feminine blessings, to that starry cross above them. No matter the variableness in which it may be found, it signifies the fertility, fecundity and creative constructiveness of the sex principle.
THE female organ was symbolized by a circle or any object that implied receptivity or fruitfulness. The union of this unit with the male triad was designated by the sacred and mystical number four. This was the original form of the eight sided cross of the Hebrews, and it was upon this cross that Jesus was crucified, the point of crucifixion piercing the Heart—His Love-nature. So it is ever in man’s life—the point of crucifixion pierces the most vulnerable, as well as the most vital, part of his being.
Another figure of feminine virginity is an elongated circle with cross-bars, secured in such a manner that they cannot be removed. It indicates that the door is closed. The poet had reference to this symbol when he sang:
“A garden enclosed is my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.”
Not even a Divine Master can enter the door of the cavern leading to the Mount of Zion, save as his Holy Mistress removes the bars from the entrance.
The Ark of the Covenant was a symbol of the preservation of the germ of Life or that which was most sacred and precious. The ark containing Aaron’s rod—a masculine symbol, the Cup of Manna—a feminine symbol, and the two tables of the Law—masculine and feminine—was borne in triumph to Jerusalem while singing and dancing lifted the hearts in joy. To dance is the same as to impregnate, redeem, elevate! It is the rhythm of the harmonious action in dancing that crucifies the un-regenerate or inharmonious element. As the rotation of the planets and constellations around the sun is the true dance so is it performed by men and women in a circle around a center occupied by one of either sex; the circle itself being Yonic, the center Phallic.