The Mystery of Sex, or Sex Polarity

Regarding this process of reproduction, by reasoning through analogy, one can see that the old esoteric original: "occult" teaching is correct: before this division or separation can take place, there must be a process of fertilization of one cell by another at certain periods, the effect of which continues through several generations of cells. It has been noted that if the cells are kept apart from foreign cells, the process of separation stops after a certain number of generations, and that particular branch becomes extinct. Therefore, it is reasonable to suppose that the generative and reproductive functions must be stimulated from time to time by sexual action and fertilization.

A step higher in the scale of life is that of the Protozoan original: "Protozoon"; a single-celled microscopic organism, which also reproduces itself by subdivision. But before this subdivision takes place, two separate cells unite in what is called conjugation a process where two microorganisms exchange genetic material, after which the process of separation or subdivision begins. But instead of only two separate cells forming from the original cell, it subdivides into many cells; the young cells appear as buds upon the combined parent cells, looking similar to "the buds of a plant." These buds afterward drop off and pursue their own mature individual lives, eventually each combining with another cell and then reproducing just as their parents did. It is not claimed that the two uniting cells are distinctively male or female, but rather that they possess a dual sexuality, as do some animals much higher in the scale of evolution. When the union takes place, the male element of each fertilizes the female element of the other, and reproduction follows. Maupas Émile Maupas (1842–1910) was a French biologist who made significant discoveries regarding the reproduction of protozoa says:

"The para- or micronucleus a small nucleus in certain cells that functions in reproduction is a 'hermaphrodite' possessing both male and female characteristics sexual element of sole importance in conjugation. The stages of the process are as follows: (1) The micronucleus increases in size. (2) Division occurs until there are eight micronuclei. (3) Of these eight, seven disappear. (4) The remaining one divides again, differentiating into a male and female pronucleus the nucleus of a sperm or egg cell before they fuse. (5) In the next stage, the male elements of the two individuals are exchanged, and the new male nucleus fuses with the original female portion. (6) Finally, the individuals,