Every spirit-germ has its specific character - it is either positive or negative. The germ stems from the spiritual precipitation which, in the higher worlds, is divided into heavier, male parts and lighter, female ones. By the time the spirit-germ “rolls” to the bottom of the Spiritual Realm, it is already a well formed little ball, destined to be either a female or male spirit.

How does a spirit-germ know what gender it is, when it has no human form yet? Spirits in the Spiritual Realm do not have reproductive organs, because they are not needed for reproduction. Nevertheless, there is a striking difference visible right away between male and female spirits. Not even the child-shaped soul, the first covering of man in the Ethereal World has reproductive organs. Only through development does it gain a male or female form, but without the reproductive organs.

What makes the spirit-germ change into a male or female spirit? We know that inscriptions on gravestones “Rest in Peace” do not express the real life of the soul after death. Everyone will be active in the ”world beyond”, whether by experiencing suffering or by being creative. And it is this activity and the overall expression that determine a male or female form. The propensity to a certain type of activity is present already in the spirit-germ itself, as it is either positive or negative. That’s why already the child-shaped soul in the Ethereal World develops depending upon the type of expression and activity, and that makes it a male or a female.

How is real manhood and womanhood manifested on Earth according to Eternal Laws? The work of a male is active, enforcing and coarse - it is work with

matter, strength and the intellect.

The work of a female is passive, directing, requiring less strength, it is finer

work - mostly emotional and spiritual.

A woman is controlling from the spiritual standpoint as, having generally a finer essence and a more permeable body, she can, due to the Law of Homogeneity, unite with finer, higher spheres. Thereby she gains greater spiritual knowledge and might. Her control is expressed in a passive way - she only feels, inspires, directs and plans. The man processes her ideas and combines them with his own decisions. He is the executor of her plans.

Very few of today’s women rule in this passive way. Woman today is almost as active as man, which is the result of the fact that she does not live a purely feminine life. Circumstances led her to desire equality - emancipation. That pushed her, albeit unwillingly, into the whirlwind of male life.

The purpose of emancipation was to accept real masculinity and real femininity and the fact that they are equal in value. This should have erased the superiority of men and the disadvantaged and underestimated position of women. But equality, as practised today, means that a woman can and must do everything a man does, and a man has the same duties and rights as a woman.

For a woman to be equal to a man she had to emphasise the sameness in all respects. It began with masculine ways of clothing, wearing pants, later on adapting male customs and habits. And later still women were able to think along male lines just to narrow the gap between them and men.

The Law of Completing a Unit has been distorted. How could there be harmony in a relationship when the pure negative and positive poles no longer existed, when man no longer was truly a man nor woman truly a woman?

The continuous process of emancipation, which is erroneously understood as equalization of gender differences brought about, within a short period, the establishment of types of partners totally different from the types existing previously. The new prototypes of men and women were connected by one word - distortion. Men stopped being men and women stopped being women when each of them had to act, according to need, like the other one as well. We have eliminated pure contrasts from our lives.

What were the errors of man and woman in their development? What caused them both to fall and when and how did the distortion start? Already in ancient times evil began to grow in people and it grew to such dimensions that today we do not even realize it, as we accept it as a natural part of our life. What is the evil that works for thousands of years already and hides among us so that it does not even bother us? On the outside it acts as our friend and inevitable helper. But this role is just an act, it hides behind it as behind a mask, which covers something totally different. In reality it is our enemy. It tries to absolutely rule our whole life, although it is not capable of doing so. Where to look for this saboteur to recognize him? Look for it in your head. There it resides, with an honourable name - the intellect. Someone could now gasp unbelievingly: “That is impossible! How can the intellect be our enemy? Where is the proof?”

Consider it yourself. We’ll begin with the original purpose of the intellect. It was supposed to simplify life on Earth, make man a wise master over nature and its creatures. At the same time intellect was to be a counterweight to the spirit, it was supposed to keep it grounded so that it would not escape from reality when connecting with the heights. Although the intellect is the finer product of our brain, it still is material. That means it belongs to matter and earthly activities in its essence. But man wanted his intellect to also rule over his soul and even his spirit, which are, according to the Law of Homogeneity, of a totally different nature. When man did not understand spiritual happenings with his intellect, he reacted as a child would - he made fun of what he did not understand.

Even though we do not see love and hate, we still acknowledge their expressions and consequences as something real, because we feel them. It is different with the spirit. A materialist claims that the spirit does not exist because he can’t see it. He does not believe that, would he give it a chance to express itself, it could develop many different abilities, even outside time and space. The spirit, due to its non-material essence, acts above time and space and is more multifaceted and resourceful than the intellect. It also draws from the experiences of past lives. The intellect is young and inexperienced, a mere child compared to a mature spirit. It only gathers and keeps information from one earthly life. In spite of this it tries to subjugate the spirit.

Just imagine the life of an adult who is subordinate to a child, who leaves to it all decision making and power, as intellect wants to do to the spirit. Will a relationship like this lead to mutual benefit and growth? It resembles a chick leading a hen. What can come of it? Only senseless wandering, misunderstandings and chaos. When the child rules it acts according to its abilities - it plays games. The intellect also only thinks within the framework of its abilities, it cannot rise above the horizon of its comprehension. As it is the product of matter, it acknowledges only that which is of the same substance , i.e., material.

If a child does not acknowledge the wisdom of an adult, it will not respect his advice and experience, which would help him to grow and develop. It is similar with the attitude of the limited intellect towards the more mature and versatile spirit. Because it cannot comprehend it, as it is of a different essence, it resolutely states that the spirit does not exist! It does not realize that it undermines its own position. It is only the spirit that supports the development of matter and the human body. The physical embryo in the mother’s body cannot develop without the spirit, it dies.

Let’s go back to the time when humanity started to use its intellect incorrectly for the first time. Men were fully using their intellect to improve life on Earth and women lived fully with intuitive perception and spirit. That gave beauty to their life and accelerated progress, as real men and real women, according to the Law of Completing a Unit created harmonious living and relationships. Later man also started to use his intellect where he was not supposed to, he started to evaluate the woman with it. He thought because she chiefly expressed herself through emotions, caring for children and the household, she was inferior, incapable, as he could not evaluate her invisible spiritual contribution with his intellect. The woman, closely connected with the heights, created a bridge for the incarnation of higher spirits and at the same time she attracted to Earth prototypes from the Astral.

Man perseveres in his error to this day. He considers scientific and technological progress as the top of the development, as he perfected matter and his intellect through it.

The intellect tries to stay in this favourable position and suppresses everything that could disturb its ruling status, mainly the spirit. Many people do not even know that, apart from the frontal brain, they also have the small brain that receives spiritual impulses from the spirit and keeps experiences from past lives. But, due to its long-lasting enforced inactivity, its capacity has diminished to such an extent that it became stunted. Both parts of the brain were equal at the beginning, as they worked uniformly, harmoniously as, e.g., the kidneys do.

By favouring logical thinking and neglecting intuitive perception and the spirit, the capacity of the frontal brain has increased in the same measure that the small brain’s capacity has diminished. Children are being born with this disfigured brain. This event is known as the decline of mankind, the “hereditary sin”. It is an involuntary inheritance which the newborn brings into life on Earth. This deformation of the brain limits him from the start and inhibits the usage of the small brain. Fortunately, by knowing about this hindrance, and by making an effort, everyone can awaken the small brain into a more intense activity.

Ever since humanity elevated the intellect to the judge of all things, it started on a path of a totally different development. Instead of being ennobled, it declined spiritually. It honours and acknowledges primarily intellectual knowledge, physical abilities, possessions and power. With an increased income material requirements are also increasing and man has to work hard - constantly. The reward, again, is just material in form. A life where hard work alternates with hard “play” is considered the height of happiness. But what leads to the highest peak at the same time leads to decline. This frequently is the end of civilizations based on the rule of the intellect, based in matter, which has an inherent propensity for change, formation and disintegration.

If mankind voluntarily surrendered the rule of its life to a higher element, i.e., to the spirit, it would avoid the negative consequences of matter and changes thereof and it would live “eternal life” also on Earth without the necessity of the decline of civilizations. Mankind would become enlightened and develop upwards, and there would be “eternity” on Earth. It would be of immeasurably longer duration than that of the matter. Man would not be hindered by unnecessary suffering and hardship. He could live on Earth in a similar way to living in Paradise - in love, joyful activity and creativity, as Eternal Laws would not punish him with his own mistakes.

But already in ancient times people started to live under the influence of “hereditary sin”, under the rule of the intellect. That’s why the Bible preordained man to “work in the sweat of his brow and woman to give birth in pain”. Hardship, pain and disease are consequences which humanity caused themselves by their fall, when they tasted and ate the apple from the tree of knowledge - intellect. Man became a true materialist when he elevated the intellect over the spirit.

A further distortion was caused by man through the incorrect understanding of the sexual instinct. As he has done with the intellect, he has likewise put the sexual instinct onto the highest pedestal, above the generative power. It was generative power that was to lead man and not the sexual instinct. Correctly used generative power spiritualises the body of man. This happens in pure love and noble emotion. In that case the generative energy unites and improves all three parts of man - body, soul and spirit.

Sensuality connects only matter with matter - sexual organs with the brain, in which the feeling of pleasure is experienced. The spirit stays untouched, unused. That’s why a person is never completely “satiated” and satisfied, or only for a while. He or she does not know that the feeling of long-lasting satisfaction can only come when pleasure is experienced on all three levels of existence.

The sexual instinct is, in the same way as the intellect, an inevitable part of life. That’s why it should not be removed from life. It should be put into its proper place - behind generative power. What does that mean practically? It means to first of all get rid of the unreasonable view that man becomes a real man only by frequent and long sexual experiences. It is similar with food. One needs to eat but the most manly man is not the one who most frequently overeats. The golden middle road is always the best.

Only when man stops seeing woman as an object of entertainment and his sexual urge, and begins to approach her as a being who deserves genuine respect and real love, will he change her into a “goddess” who will reciprocate his love and offer him unforgettable and eternal pleasures on the level of the body, soul and spirit.

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From time immemorial man has expressed himself through his basic character - activity. Here also a deviation was made. Under the veil of tolerance and emancipation man voluntarily loosened the hold on his activity and let it be gradually taken over by woman even in the areas which were his domain. The active man became a comfortable or obedient fellow.

What should a man do to become a real man again? First of all he should know his hidden abilities and character and then cultivate them. Man’s most important task should be to provide the financial security of the family. This requires enormous activity and great responsibility - this is his true role which makes a real man out of him.

Basic male qualities are most of all:

  • activity
  • responsibility
  • courage
  • strength
  • honesty
  • respect for women and authority
  • justice

Man should display these qualities not just towards his partner, but also at work, and in his community. Respect towards women does not mean tolerance of their serious shortcomings and the suppression of dissatisfaction. A good leader is able to use the right approach so as not to offend his female worker but make her aware of her shortcomings. By suppressing his negative emotions he does harm not only to himself but also to her, as he supports her faults. This can create an atmosphere of injustice and weakness in the workplace.

If a man is lacking certain male qualities, or if they are developed to a lesser degree, his partner will have them in abundance. She can “gift” them to him, not by criticizing and underestimating him, but by voluntarily submitting her treasures through advice, inspiration and support.

Man does not need to spend as much time on spiritual education as woman. His spirit is awakened and growing by fulfilling his goals in practical life with the help of the ideal male qualities. Man has to make his mark into matter through his will. Will is the driving power, which comes from the spirit and, in his hands, changes into action. Without action will is nothing. Only through activity, through a deed does man grow spiritually, ideally with the help of a woman who inspires him.

Men whose only goal in life is spiritual are mostly impractical in life. Indian culture mirrors this state. Although it reached a high level in a certain period, it gradually began to stagnate and decline, as it did not consider material life on Earth important. The result of this disharmony is shown in the unequivocal fact that only a minute number of the many ascetics, yogis or monks reaches “salvation” - the final development of the spirit. In most cases the lack of harmony is a handicap.

Only a person who knew earthly joys and worries, has experienced them, can give them up. He, who gives them up prematurely, has wasted life. Spirit and matter are equally important on Earth, both need to be used and developed. Only by overcoming matter, does the spirit develop, grow and strengthen.

Religious tradition has given us a somewhat incorrect opinion that, if man was created as the first one, he is also spiritually on a higher level than woman. Because the male on Earth has a denser body, he is, according to the Law of Homogeneity, more connected to matter, to earthly affairs. Woman, according to this law, due to her finer substance, connects to the finer higher radiations of non-material worlds more easily. That means that woman is spiritually on a higher level than man. Her more sensitive substance makes her more perceptive but, at the same time, more vulnerable. She perceives vibrations from higher and lower levels as well, more readily.

The radiations from lower, denser planets are so strong that they can lead man from the true path of development. That’s why in the ethereal field where, in flowers spirit-germs are developing, male beings are also present who are protecting them, with their positive - stronger and denser - radiation, from negative influences. In this period the germ is still unconscious so it is not able to distinguish between good and bad influences and could be lured onto an incorrect path during his spiritual awakening. Male beings aid the germ in his first free decision making to choose the right path when travelling in the World of Matter. That’s why the beginning, the first life, is usually the correct one for everyone. Man is only later being lured onto wrong paths, through his own will and ignorance of Eternal Laws.

Life on Earth is similar to life in a jungle. Man is being influenced by radiations from higher and lower worlds and, whether he wants it or not, he is subjected to their activity. The radiations from the lower planets are stronger, as they are more homogeneous to the matter on Earth, heavier and closer to the Earth. Man perceives them earlier and better than higher, spiritual vibrations which are further away and much finer.

Eternal Laws and spiritual knowledge are like traffic signs which man uses for orientation, so as not to get lost. He who disregards them and does not want to heed them, travels to his goal on detours and also has to protect himself from the attacks of various “wild animals” that endanger him on the wrong paths. When prehistoric men realized which animals were dangerous, they avoided them or killed them. But they could not avoid dangerous spiritual vibrations, as they were present everywhere. They did not pose so much of a danger to men as to women, as men were protected by the density of their body. According to the Law of Homogeneity men were thereby more immune to higher as well as lower spiritual vibrations.

For ages woman has connected man with the heights - with higher worlds, through her sensitivity and higher perceptibility. What she attracted from above, whether in the form of prototypes, virtues and ideals, man has put into practice. This process took place often only subconsciously. Spiritual purity protected woman like a lock from undesirable, negative influences.

We should not arrive at the wrong conclusion that man was not able to receive anything spiritual. Before he over-cultivated his frontal brain, he also received spiritual impulses from above. Only later, due to the increased development of primarily the intellect, he closed himself off from the heights.

While woman lived a natural, feminine way of life, she devoted herself mainly to lighter work - the care of children, her husband and household. She found fulfilment in emotions. Her higher spiritual activity and connection with higher worlds changed her, in comparison to man, into a beautiful being. In pious respect man “served” his “goddess” and protected her from negative earthly influences. He built a shelter for her and provided the food and safety of the family. The first generation of man lived in spiritual purity and in agreement with Eternal Laws, as they let themselves be led predominantly by the spirit. It could be said that the first people on Earth lived satisfied, as if in Paradise, although the conditions compared to the present ones were seemingly much harder. They did not know everyday hardship or burden and were more in tune with natural cycles.

According to the Bible, woman was the first to give in to the temptation of the “serpent”. It is just a simile, but it is, sadly, true. Precisely because woman was more sensitive she, as the first one, succumbed to the luring and temptation of the “serpent”, i.e., the negative radiations from lower levels. Why do we call these negative radiations temptation? Because the serpent as a negative principle, is not a fictitious idea, but a conscious element that actively deceives with the help of negative thoughts. We will talk more about it and its representative later. In the beginning woman perceived through her brain only positive thoughts, which she communicated to man together with the spiritual vibrations from above. Man put her ideas and suggestions into effect in matter. Later, when positive thoughts started to change to temptation, woman did not realize the danger and consequences. She did not know about the existence of the “serpent” and his intentions, that’s why she lacked caution.

At first woman considered her beauty as something self-evident. She did not need to care for it or enhance it, she was graced by spiritual purity. Spirituality and purity are expressed as beauty, as they are in agreement with Eternal Laws. The serpent - temptation, constantly whispered to woman that she is more beautiful than man. When she finally accepted this deception as her own thought and realized her superiority to man, she was overtaken by a so far unknown quality - vanity. She started to beautify herself to increase her advantage and to profit from it. This intellectual speculation was the first bite into the apple of sin.

By taking care of her beauty woman gradually started to tie herself to her body, to matter, and turned her back to the connection with the heights. As a result of this change her beauty became more and more earthly and gradually she was influencing man’s senses more than his spirit. His so far moderate, natural, sexual instinct started to get overactive. The chain of negative consequences continued and began to create new qualities, not known before.

While woman lived in spiritual purity, man could count on her faithfulness, even though she was beautiful. But by stressing her advantages and by trying to use them practically, i.e., gaining favours, she awakened in man previously unknown jealousy and with it a feeling of ownership. When man sensed the covetous looks of his fellow men, he started to doubt his wife. In order to keep her, he fought first with fists, later with weapons, later yet with wealth. He started to accumulate possessions, even at the expense of others, just to attain or keep the most alluring of women. The accumulation of property was the beginning of oppression, injustice, conflict and other negative consequences.

Later on, man was able to develop these negative traits even without a woman. He discovered that he can use his intellect not only when working but also when contending for power, which he needed to get what he desired. When the intellect gained power in him, he threw woman off her highest pedestal and started to despise her. He was no longer obstructed by her purity, which she was losing because of her vanity. With the loss of purity woman also lost her power and real respect. In order to better her dishonoured status and to make man like her despite his contempt, she was capable of doing anything, even to sell herself. This way she has not only ruined herself, but also man. Material pleasures and possessions gradually became the main purpose of life.

Woman was the first one who sank and thereby caused her own and man’s fall as well. That’s why it should be woman, as the first one, to recover and raise herself and also man. Woman, through her nature, is a bridge to higher spiritual knowledge, if she lives the right life. In that case she uplifts the man, family and her surroundings and, thereby, the whole nation.

How can woman regain her original purity which she almost lost? First and foremost she has to recognize her shortcomings as consequences of distorted values and attitudes. The first distortion concerns her most pronounced value - beauty. To the present day it is the primary and most important symbol of a woman. But whom do we consider to be the most beautiful of women today? A woman who gets the greatest attention of men. Women know that man’s sexual instinct is often the only evaluating tool used to determine their value, so they enhance their beauty to awaken and provoke it. As a result beauty and temptation go hand in hand.

Woman should pay the same attention to her physical beauty as she does to hygiene and food - they are part of life, they complement it, they are not, however, its main purpose. She can wear fashionable clothes if they are not eccentric and provocative. Masculine haircuts will hardly elicit feelings of respect towards women - the “weaker “ sex from true, undistorted men. The same applies to masculine types of suits and pants which do not enhance femininity and natural attractiveness which should bring back gentlemanly feelings and behaviour in men.

A necessary component of physical beauty is movement, which adds gracefulness to a woman, or takes away from it. In this area again woman concentrates on the wrong goal. She is aiming for a new ideal of beauty - a firm, sporty figure with slight curves. And so the fine, weak woman tries to be equal to man not only in work, society and fashion but also in her body. Her originally graceful, permeable and supple body became heavy and firm after strenuous exercise and physical effort, resembling a male body. Due to the increased density of the body there is a more homogeneous connection of the woman to matter and to earthly affairs, rather than the heights. She became an equal, but not a complementing partner to man.

Woman, owing to her sensitivity expressed in a heightened excitability and mental instability needs stress relief more than exercise. Relaxation, undemanding dance, walks and moderate hiking bring freshness, suppleness and health.

A woman is judged at first glance according to her appearance, the second glance reveals her spiritual quality, according to her place of living. Woman always was the queen in her home. Even in times of increased materialism the home did not loose its role and purpose. It is an oasis of peace and safety. A home which radiates cleanliness and modest beauty is a balm for the soul and body of the whole family.

A woman is valuable in any circumstance, if she lives like a real woman - whether she is single, married, divorced, childless, a mother or a good worker. If a woman remains single and childless she does not miss her purpose in life. Maternity is not the highest mission of a woman. The highest goal is spiritual development and improvement of the environment, but not to the detriment of motherhood or the household.

Which precise qualities should a woman develop if she wants to achieve true femininity? Let’s just mention the basic ones:

  • Faithfulness to her man and ideals.
  • Purity of body, her environment, thoughts.
  • Orderliness in the home, work and mind.
  • Calmness. Stress and absent mindedness as well as talkativeness, which are primarily an expression of fatigue, should be eliminated by relaxation, sleep, setting priorities and planning.
  • Full experiencing of intuitive perception and emotions, joy and sadness, as their suppression causes tension, depression and disease.
  • Tender care for children, animals, plants, art and handicrafts.
  • Expression of honest, true and tender love to her partner and her community.
  • Behaving naturally, being herself, not imitating idols.

What should be the ideal and goal of the present day woman? The same as it has always been: Through her purity and natural beauty to uplift her surroundings in the sense that everyone will feel respect and a desire to act nobly in her presence as she will awaken the best there is, in everyone.