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By Richard Kieninger Biological Roles A woman’s life in
prehistoric times centered primarily around her bearing and rearing children.
The man, on the other hand, had to track and kill animals, and he had to
protect his family from predators. Cunning, courage, skill, and sheer brawn
were necessary for his getting what he needed. So-called masculine and
feminine traits slowly evolved Egoically over millennia and differentiated
the outlook of the two sexes. In those parts of the world
where agriculture and animal husbandry developed, the hunter became
relatively unimportant to the needs of his people, and his dominance declined
so that the maternal, nurturant aspects of women rose to a comparatively more
prominent role in the life of the tribe. Where people remained dependent on
hunting for survival, the masculine, aggressive outlook predominated in the
tribe. Thus arose the matriarchal
and patriarchal ways of life in various parts of the globe and at different
times in man’s history. The different emphases developed by male and female
Egos in their sex-role experiences up to that time began to merge in early
Lemuria. As centuries passed, men and women in Lemuria each acquired the
better aspects of masculinity and femininity for themselves while eliminating
the less desirable traits associated with male and female personality
differences. The process of consciously
working to grow in this way concurrently strengthened both sexes’ powers of
Mind, and their mentality grew apace along with practicality and ideality.
Lemurian men and women advanced rapidly toward what we today call Mastership,
since cynicism and sophistication did not yet undermine man’s faith in what
he could achieve. Egoic Balance It is necessary that
personal, Egoic balance be re-established in you if you hope to achieve
Initiation in a Brotherhood. Adherents of the Brotherhoods’ Philosophy must
do everything possible to enhance the acquisition of people’s Egoic balance
by re-establishing a culture which allows children to naturally absorb every
aspect of balance from the pervading culture and its world outlook. Men and women today who
turn their feet upon the path of Egoic uplift have to spend some twenty years
of their lives overcoming the negative attitude-forming influences of their
first twenty years so they may finally be able to start at neutral in their
forties. That is an incredible waste of time and happiness and efficiency and
cultural advancement! Moreover, we are all permanently scarred by the
ignorance of those who tried to rear us the best they could without full
knowledge of Universal Law and child psychology, or awareness of the purpose
of life and how to fulfill it. Therefore, parents, these days, have the
additional job of synthesizing and putting together the aspects of the matriarchal
and patriarchal views of the world so as to regain the very potent Lemurian
philosophy of balance. This involves our taking into account all things and
assigning to them proper values in our quest for Egoic growth and for control
of our environment. Philosophies of life other
than the Lemurian are usually constructed around one of two mainstreams of
thought. These two are variously compared as patriarchal vs. matriarchal, the
rational vs. the cosmic, Western vs. Eastern, or Apollonian vs. Dionysian.
The genuine searcher for truth must take both views into account to find the
path to sanity and reality. There are brilliantly intelligent men who are
firm adherents of the scientific method and yet they also deeply believe in
God. There are different forms
of thinking, all valid, which are available to us for perceiving reality in
its many forms. As a matter of fact, the two hemispheres of each persons’
cerebral cortex divide the cortex into two functions. The left side usually
specializes in reason, logic, analysis, and language; whereas the right side
usually specializes in intuition, imagination, spatial relationships, and
holistic synthesis. The concrete and the abstract can be simultaneously real
in an individual’s experiences just as can the practical and the artistic,
the rational and the fantastic, the physical and the spiritual percepts. For a person to be a whole
human being, he must touch upon the whole universe. His brain and body are
creating-tools, but they are also sensitive receivers of all the messages
streaming from the far corners of creation as well as from life near at hand.
Certainly, we must look to the whole cosmos for information, but perception
of your own body’s inner space will reveal great wonders to you also. Exploring the Concept of
Balance Apollo was the Greek god of
reason, order, light and boundaries, and Dionysus was the Greek god of wine,
excess, fantasy, and metamorphosis. The elements of both views are right, and
the sage incorporates both views concurrently within himself. The two views were really never
meant to be separated. Practical and idealistic attributes, when blended into
a balanced whole along with mentality are the stuff of which Initiates are
made. The history of a people, the nature of their natural environment, and
their mode of competition with others all influence their philosophy and
mythology. The patriarchal influence
on Greek thought emphasized separation of God from the world. Man’s spirit
was separated from the flesh, and mind from matter, and a higher value was
placed on spirit and mind as sacred Apollonian aspects of man which were at
odds with his bodily needs. Patriarchal man, therefore, is seen as divided
within himself. He is separated from God by sin, and in contention with
nature which threatens to overwhelm him. His rationalism regards the
universe as a chaos of random physical forces held in check by one another.
His human society is formed by a social contract to control man’s natural
aggression and territorial instincts which he feels would otherwise tend
toward total social warfare. On the other hand, the
matriarchal philosophies see unity in human mind and body, and God exists in
every aspect of creation. Unity underlies the appearances of plurality,
continuity exists between all life forms, and the whole cosmos is seen as an
integration of intelligent life in graduated planes. The universe is seen as
order, and things occur in it by intelligent design. The matriarchal
community is a single, organic whole, and the various functions of social
structure are a harmonious outworking of the fulfilling of mankind’s needs. Masculine and Feminine
Roles—Striving for Balance It is not difficult to
observe that the female role of rearing children engenders less
aggressiveness than the traditional male role, which involves making and
keeping laws and boundaries for the populace at large, often over forceful
and rebellious activity. Aggressiveness in the marketplace was a natural
adaptation for males as well, and the imposition of patriarchy through the
acquisitions of war throughout the known history of the world has kept women
in positions of relative servitude, particularly exemplified today in
third-world countries. In cultures where
prosperity is the norm, people tend to lift themselves out of the level of
mere survival. When cultural values center around education and
self-development, and around the arts and sciences, both sexes tend to take
on refinement, and both acquire the opportunity to take on the positive
characteristics of the opposite sex. If the middle class of the
U.S.A. had continued to flourish in the 1970’s and education had not been
undermined in the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the
twentieth century in this country, women might have grown tired of competing
in the marketplace. There was a tendency to seek a return to the home in a
new context of worthwhile achievement-centered women, but the current
economic trends have prevented that from happening. In most homes now, though
many women have become disenchanted with working outside the home and have
aspired to enter into the role of their children’s teacher, it is no longer
possible for most families to be supported by only the male’s wages. In all
too many cases, women have discovered that in spite of their discovery that
they are not emotionally suited for many of the workplace situations in which
they find themselves, they no longer have the opportunity to stay in the home
and apply their skills there. Fortunately, the general
rise in women’s consciousness will not be lost to mankind, for in future
incarnations opportunities will be presented for those same balanced builders
of the home environment to achieve their goals to improve the human condition
whether they choose to work in or outside the home. In the Nation of God, women
who choose to have children will be required to devote eighteen years of
their lives to their child so that each new generation of mankind will be
provided with ideal opportunities for growth and development. There will be
plenty of time before child-rearing begins and after it ends for women to
pursue their specialized professions, but the profession of educating and
nurturing a child will be given the highest honor in the land. Since a
complete grounding in child psychology and education will be given to every
prospective mother, she will no longer be cast adrift on a vast ocean of
responsibility for which she has not been trained. The role of mothering will
be accorded the kind of respect it deserves in the culture of the future. Women are especially suited
for that vital role, because of the prevalence of emotional development which
their past lives have prepared in them. Their intuitive and nurturing
qualities have been developed by centuries of responsibilities in the home.
The advantage of emotional development in women will become more apparent
when the education of women of all races and cultures brings their
intellectual advancement to a level which is appropriate for their being the
educators of mankind. Universal education up to the age of twenty-eight for
both sexes, with special added instruction for those women who will embark on
a career of being a mother, will do away with patriarchal attitudes that
counter the dignity of the nurturing and educating role of parenting. Fortunately, men will achieve
the same kind of emotional development when their work week is only twelve
hours a week, and they too can enter into the rich environment of the
development of human potential. Human psychology will surely be a major field
of study for human beings in the centuries to come. The feminine virtues of
surrender, trust, romantic imagination, fantasy and mysticism will be
developed and refined, encouraging the sensitivities of children to
flourish. The masculine virtues of rationality and practicality will be made
available to all children. Poetry, ESP, play, music and dance, as well as
training in how to make and change things will be accessible to all
developing human egos. The value of conflict, of limits, responsibility,
discipline and efficiency will be recognized, and those values will be
presented within the context of harmonious role modeling by both men and
women. Varieties of human experience will enrich intellectual achievement in
the children and adults of tomorrow. Furthermore, commitment to societal
uplift will be easy to find in people whose natural idealism has been given
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