The Mystery of Sex, or Sex Polarity

...distinctly masculine in their characteristics, such as the Will and the Logical Faculties. There are also certain faculties which are distinctly feminine in their characteristics, such as the Emotions or Feelings, the Imaginative Faculties, Memory, and Intuition. Every individual, whether male or female, contains within himself or herself this dual nature of the mind. The Imagination, Memory, and Intuition are essentially feminine in all of their characteristics; their work is a “bringing forth,” an exercise of the reproductive function on the mental plane. Furthermore, even Desire is feminine in its nature, and operates by coaxing, alluring, and drawing the Will into action. The Will and the Logical Faculties are essentially masculine and operate by providing energy, applying force, and stimulating the other faculties into action.

Moreover, those regions of the mind known to modern psychologists as the “subjective,” the “subconscious,” or the “subliminal” are feminine in their activities—they produce and bring forth; they are creative original: "procreative" in their nature. On the other hand, the “objective” or “outer” mind is essentially masculine in its nature. It creates nothing on its own, but merely acts upon the feminine mentality to incite it toward activity and reproductive functioning. Intuition is distinctively feminine and is the exact opposite original: "diametrically opposite in polarization" of its companion, Logical Reasoning. We do not have the space to follow this thought in detail here, but those who are familiar with the characteristics of the various mental faculties and regions of the mind will have no trouble identifying and classifying them according to their "mental sex."

In connection with the subject of how sex manifests on the mental plane, we may say here that the Arcane Teachers A term likely referring to the authors or the ancient sources of this esoteric philosophy hold that the phenomena of thought transference, telepathy, mental influence, hypnotism, and so on, are explainable only by admitting the existence of sex in the mind. The workings of suggestion and auto-suggestion are also explained once this principle is understood. This idea of sex within the mental faculties and regions gives one the key to psychic phenomena. All energizing, or projection...