The Mystery of Sex, or Sex Polarity

All things, from the microscopic to the vast, throughout Nature, mate original: "bed" with each other. The phallus original: "phallus"; a symbol of the generative power of nature, often represented by the male organ is a more powerful symbol than the virtuous are aware of original: "wot of". It is found even in the Cross. The sciences are a study of universal desire original: "lust". Flower fertilizes original: "fecundates" flower, even though one sends its seeds to another on the wings of a wandering and uncertain bee. There is a rain of life between the planets. Collisions scatter world-fragments in the far furrows of space, and those fragments are gathered up by other planets, transferring life to them from systems that have ceased to be. In mathematics, numbers join together original: "cohabit", and the results are glimpses into the secrets of Infinity. In chemistry, fluids and solids mingle to create new things. In physics, the savagery and the tenderness of force—in both destruction and reproduction—produces power. Biology shows us the operation of this same affection in the development of life. Differentiation, selection, and organization—all these are processes of an intelligent passion original: "amorousness" in matter. This intelligent passion is the spirit within matter—the "love that makes the world go round; that holds the universe ensnared."

Reedy concludes as follows: "But where does it end—this intelligent passion? There is a limit to the finite. But the finite is part of the Infinite. It would seem that the pursuit of this law of love would bring one only to the Unknowable, pushing it only a little further back. Love may follow where love leads—even to the essence of God—for God is love. The material aspect of love, which we have focused on so far, need not deter us from pushing 'further North' a metaphor for exploring more spiritual or advanced heights. To whoever original: "whoso" believes in the oneness of Matter and Spirit, there is no Unknowable. The end of the law of Love, and of the spiritual faculties used to perceive it, can be the knowing of this Unknowable—union with the Infinite. Let us take flight."

The Arcane Teachers likely referring to the authors or the ancient sources of the Hermetic philosophy being discussed see the presence of Sex not only in material forces and the forms of matter, but also in the very mind and spirit itself. Their teaching is that every individual has evidence of both sexes within themselves in the physical body, and also that each person has the elements of both sex principles within their mental realm. There are certain mental faculties...