Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

292 THI·~ SEVEN CREATIVE PRINCIPLF.K. [.January
bl'inging them into perfect order,-not the order which we
have known, which bas Rprung fi'Om the fever of a distorteci
brain, but that which will flow from a brain cooled and always
refre11hed by the living fountains which proceed from the Everlasting
Father: ••And he Rhewed me a pure a·iver of water of
life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God ancl
the Lamb." Rev. xxn. 1. The joy, the exquisite rapture and
Ratisfaction in the office and function of woman's natut·e in this
age~-dare we mention it? No: fm· it could neither be undt:!t'­
stood nor expressed: true it is that " eye hath not Reen, nor
ear heard. neither have entered into the heaa·t of man, the
things which God hath prepart>tl foa· them that love him "
Although we have been treating Fermentaticm as thon!.!'h it
were an adverse influence, it is but the pr01lnet, the t·esult. of
the two primates, Force and Discrimination. The Force is of
the highel' antl purer life element, and Di11crimination the selection
of the be11t and the rejection of the unfit,-that whidt
is not useful.
Let us look for a moment into the relation and workiug11 of
Discr·iminaticm and Force, the retmlt of which is, as we have
said, Fermentation. Discl'imination iRan attribnte of the mind.
Vir·go is a feminine sign, and Discrimination is a feminine
quality. Mythology says that Virgo was the last of the gucls
to leave the earth; that is, the Vit·go principlt~, pure ancl gocllikt>,
was the la11t in its manifestation in the humau org;mi11m,
for befot·e r~Jason atul intellectuality tonk the tlll'one, intuition
lt:icl and eontrolled the race. A'l m:\teriali,.tic! l't:!a ..'lon gained
power, Virgo (intuition), the guide, has to a vet·y great extent
left the ea.rtb-she lw~ vit·tually gone; for the mas!les reg •rrl
her office ail a relic of a pa~t age of supet•stition, and as she has
heen coercecl ancl her funt!tion in the human organhun pet··
vet·tecl. she has b£>c!Oille the conservator of the old and per·vetetl
conditions.
Bnt Virgo, in order to maintain her existence, mu~t still act
ont her nature in triP- race as a whol11, otherwise, man would
become extinct; and a~ we are now fini~hing a cycle, passing
from one age into anothet·, sh~J, like Lucifea·, having been cast
out of heaven, as it were,-into the sen~es,-has returned to the
o;9;,;zed by Coogle