ANTHROPOLOGY 77 



God, exists true wisdom. Therefore woman, as such, is 

 more given to willing, and is led by her desires ; while 

 man, as such, is more given to arguing and calculating 

 causes and effects. Woman represents the substance ; 

 man represents spirit. Man imagines, woman executes. 

 Man creates images ; the woman renders these images 

 substantial. Man without woman is like a wandering 

 spirit — a shadow without substance, seeking to embody 

 itself in a corporeal form ; woman is like a flower, a bud 

 opening in the light of the sun, but sinking into dark- 

 ness when man, her light, departs. The divine man (the 

 angel) is male and female in one, such as Adam was 

 before the woman became separated from him. He is 

 like the sun, and his power may be reflected in men and 

 women alike; but woman, as such, resembles the moon, 

 receiving her light from the sun, and man without the 

 woman (in him) is a consuming fire in want of fuel. 



Originally, man and woman were one, and conse- 

 quently their union could not have been more intimate 

 than it actually was ; but man, having become separated 

 from the woman in him, lost his true substance. He 

 now seeks for the woman outside of his true self, and 

 wanders about among shadows, being misled by the 

 illusions. Being fascinated by the charms of the terres- 

 trial woman, he drinks of the cup of desires which she 

 presents to him, and sinks into a still deeper sleep and 

 forgetfulness of the true celestial Eve, the immaculate 

 virgin, who once existed within himself. In this way 

 woman is the enemy of man, and revenges herself for 

 having been divorced from him and cast out from her 

 true home within his heart; but, on the other hand, 

 she is man's best friend and redeemer ; for man, having 

 lost the paradise in his soul, and having become uncon- 

 scious of the true light which existed in him before he 

 went to sleep in the spirit and awoke in the flesh, would 

 sink into still lower degradation and descend to still 

 lower hells, if woman did not stand upon the threshold 



