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nality the matter which becomes animated by the former ; 

 mascularity is the light of the word, which illuminates 

 the feminality, and it is pregnant ; mascularity is the 

 electricity of the world, which arouses the female chemism 

 unto galvanic circulation. By the male the female be- 

 comes animated; before this it is dead and devoid the 

 differentialization, which is necessary to every action. 



1461. Impregnation is a simple act of light upon the 

 matter, an irradiation, as it was termed, with such an 

 exalted appreciation of its significance, by the ancients. 

 The male imparts nothing in impregnation but the solar 

 ray, or fluid nervous mass, in its semen, which awakes, 

 animates, and inspirits the quiescent female. The female 

 supplies or furnishes all the Material or, as in the plant, 

 the fruit. In other respects it is not to be understood, 

 as if no material whatever had been imparted by the 

 male, but only that it is not the matter as such, which 

 the male gives the female, that becomes fruit ; but that 

 the tension which resides in male semen, evokes at 

 the same time, as by a process of contagion or fermen- 

 tation, a similar tension in the female. 



1462. The process of tension resides originally in the 

 male, because he is related or akin to the light ; but the 

 female first obtains the light through the male. 



1463. Impregnation is an excitation by the electrical, 

 of the slumbering chemical, process. The pregnancy is 

 consequently an uninterrupted chemical process. 



1464. The female is the first and lies deeper in the 

 developmental history of the planet (but not in the crea- 

 tion), just as the digestive process is prior or antecedent 

 to the respiratory. 



1465. In the truest sense is feminality co-ordinated 

 with the digestive, the mascularity with the respiratory, 

 system. The female is (organically considered) abdomen, 

 the male, thorax. Pregnancy is a sexual process of di- 

 gestion, impregnation a sexual process of respiration. 

 In impregnation the female respires the male, whereby 

 it receives into itself a thoracic function, becomes itself 

 male, i. e. is then capable of producing something out 



