January 31, 2015

Male & Female — Positive & Negative Vibrational Factors




from   Ye Shall Know the Truth


Uranda   April 26, 1952



I have recognized all through my ministry that there have been many peculiar and ridiculous ideas developed with respect to the positive and negative aspects of being as they relate to men and women. I felt that it would be well for us to meditate upon these things a little at this time. We recognize that in the pattern of relationship between the male and the female it was, and is, the divine design that the male should carry the positive point of polarity and the female the negative point of polarity. But I have been repeatedly amazed at some of the distortion patterns which have appeared with respect to concepts about what it meant for the male to be positive and the female to be negative. In some the idea has developed that in order to be negative the female had to be acquiescent and subservient in all things. Such a concept is ridiculous nonsense. Connected with this has been the idea that carrying the positive point of polarity gave the man leave to be dictatorial and arbitrarily impose his whims and desires, without any regard to the patterns in his wife, which again is ridiculous nonsense.


Out of this there has come another aspect of distortion in concept which needs to be cleared. There have been various ones who have had the idea that in order to make spiritual progress one simply had to have a husband or a wife, and that is foolishness; the idea that a man or a woman would be but half a person unless he or she were married. That is a ridiculous idea. It is not the truth. Human beings cannot properly be isolated. We have meaning one to another, and we have meaning as individuals only as we have meaning to others. Our potentials as individuals, whatever they are, can have no real meaning or value on earth until they have meaning to someone else. Our relationships in a spiritual sense, on the mental level, the realms of mental and spiritual perception, have all kinds of relationships and meanings, and to say that these do not have any meaning in completing the individual life except as they have meaning between husband and wife is ridiculous.
 

I am not saying there should not be husbands and wives properly blended, but to say that merely because one does not have a husband or wife one cannot make true progress is utterly false. The mere fact of marriage is in itself actually beside the point in relationship to spiritual progress. Where there is a true harmony between husband and wife, a true union in spirit, a true harmony in the mental field, so that they are sharing the things of God, then the husband and wife who function in correct polarity have an opportunity of sharing in a deeper sense—and I do not mean just in the sense of physical relationship, but a deeper and more intimate sense, vibrationally, and that can be and shall be a great blessing.
 

No individual can properly be classified as merely half a person because he or she may not be married, because our meanings one to another are of many levels other than the mere fact of physical relationship in the intimate phases of marriage. Where that intimate relationship in marriage is not sanctified by love it is adultery, as surely as if there were no marriage bond in the technical or legal sense. The marriage ceremony, as such, cannot sanctify marriage. It is an acknowledgment of a declaration of love, which is most important to our society and our function. I am certainly not saying anything against marriage. Let us be very certain of that. But the marriage ceremony as such is simply an acknowledgment, a recognition, before God and man, of a declaration on the part of the partners that they do have love, that love which is of God, which makes a basis of oneness-with and provides an opportunity of functioning in the patterns of truth in relationship to each other, the constructive expression of life which will sanctify that union.
 

Only the truth can sanctify, but love provides the reality of oneness-with, the cohesive quality, and if there is not love, with a consequent function according to the patterns of truth, the mere legal fact of marriage has no power whatsoever to sanctify that marriage. Any intelligent human being who has given any thought to the matter has recognized that a physical attraction as such certainly does not provide any real foundation for marriage, that marriage must carry a pattern of blending, of union, in the mental plane with respect to the truths of life, and in the spiritual plane with respect to the reality of love; for without love and truth there can be no beauty in marriage, regardless of anything else.
 

So when we are thinking of union and the positive and negative interplay of vibrational factors, we are not thinking of it in the sense of physical sex. If we use the word in the divine sense, we can recognize that sex has a part to play in every level of being; that is, there must be the positive and negative factors involved and the interplay between them. There are the positive and negative aspects of God; and the positive aspect of the human race is, and must be, in any pattern of truth, negative to God, responsive to the divine center of being. The positive and negative aspects made evident out here in the form of men and women provide an opportunity for the revelation of the things of God in this realm on a complete basis—not something limited, distorted and ugly, not something sordid in any sense, but something so divine and beautiful and wonderful that heaven does in fact appear on earth. What is it that makes the reality of a positive function on earth?
 

There is no such thing as a true positive on earth, regardless of physical characteristics of maleness or the lack of it, without a centering in God's love in relationship to the patterns of God's truth. The mere fact that a member of the human race is called a male does not in any sense make him a positive. He has the potentiality of being a positive, yes, providing he lets himself be centered in God's love and controlled by the patterns of God's truth. But let us remember that woman is more than a body and man is more than a mind. These are properly points where they are individually dominant. Woman is supposed to be dominant in the realm of the body aspect of being, and it is through her that the body of both male and female appear. But woman is more than a body. She has a mind; she has a point of polarity in the divine plan; she has spiritual capacities. Man is more than a mind. He likewise has a body, a point of centering in the pattern of reality in the sense of deity, and he has spiritual capacities. The coordination of these two in harmony with the laws of being allows for a complete revelation of the divine processes and functions on earth, not just in the sense of something physically manifest, because we have recognized that nothing can manifest in any true sense physically without the spiritual factors back of the physical action. Even if there is a distortion pattern and something is wrong, a wrong action physically, there is a distortion of spiritual or mental factors in producing that wrong physical action.

So there are spiritual factors back of any physical action, either spiritual factors which are distorted, misused, or abused in producing a wrong action, or spiritual factors which are rightly used, or what is called righteousness, in relationship to correct function under the dominion of truth. If by any chance there is a male of the species through whom the pattern of truth is not functioning, where the pattern of truth is not in dominion, and he has a wife through whom the pattern of truth is working and there is the expression of that truth, what is it that is going to control? The truth. The positive manifestation in such a case would appear through the woman. It would have to, because the truth at any level is positive to that which is below it, though negative to that which is above it. So we have the pattern of dominion through truth in woman just as well as in man. But the potentialities in the male of the species are such that the male can carry a higher point of polarity in truth than is natural to the female. That is not saying that the female is lower than the male. It is simply recognizing that woman was created on the basis of one part of the pattern of divine function and man on another. They cannot be compared. How can we compare a man and a woman? We can say they are both human beings, they are aspects of the human race, but you cannot compare unlike things. All of this idea about the contest between the sexes has a basis in false ideas, because there is no necessity of any contest or conflict between the sexes. All such things are wrong. They have a basis in distortion patterns somewhere, somehow.
 

We cannot be set free until we know the truth, and only the truth can make us free. Where the truth manifests correctly through a woman it is just as positive, it is just as enduring, it is just as real as if it were made manifest through a man. As it happens it was a female who wrote this realization that I read to you [earlier] this evening. That fact does not detract from the positive aspect of the truth expressed. It does not make it less true than if a man had expressed it, for truth is truth wherever it appears. We should see, then, that if there is going to be the proper relationship between the male and the female aspects of the human race the male aspect must express those phases of the truth and be under the dominion of those phases of truth which are peculiar to his nature, and the female must be under the dominion of, and express or reveal, those aspects of truth which are peculiar to her proper sphere of function. The truth is respected wherever it appears, whether it appears through male or female, by all of those who are under the dominion of truth. The mere fact that a man may have said it, or a woman, is beside the point except as it may be colored by human concepts and limitations of the male or the female.
 

There are certain limitations which tend to appear more readily through the female than through the male, and there are certain limitations which tend to appear more readily through the male than through the female. So if the expression with respect to truth is distorted or colored, then the question as to whether it appeared through a man or a woman might possibly have some meaning, but the pure expression of the truth without distortion, without coloring, is something that appears, and is recognized and accepted within the scope of the truth by those who are subject to it, without regard to the male or the female channel of its appearance.
 

A divine aspect of this matter is that there will be certain delicacies of expression, there will be certain characteristics natural to the divine pattern in the detail of manifestation, which appear more readily through the female than through the male. There are certain things which will appear through the male rather than through the female if they are to appear at all, because a man cannot function as a woman nor can a woman function as a man, try as she may. In the world more women have been guilty of trying to function as men than men have been guilty of trying to function as women. The tendency to distortion, the tendency to deviation from the natural pattern, even though it be extremely limited, is more prevalent in the female than in the male—give a woman free rein on a general basis and a large majority will attempt to take a positive position and attempt to reject the negative aspect of being as something unworthy of her, not realizing that such function is unworthy of her. There is nothing unworthy, menial or below with respect to the natural pattern of the female.


Eve was created, according to the allegorical story, out of a rib taken from the side of Adam. This signifies many things, one of which we have all recognized as being that woman should stand at man's side. She is not to be trampled upon nor is she to try to be the crown upon his head. She is to be by his side, to be a partner in the outworking of life, to be a companion in the fulfilment of life. We might also recognize that the utilization of the rib in this symbology suggests that woman is to be strong. Ribs have certain peculiar characteristics. There is a pliability, a flexibility, but a remarkable strength which protects the vital organs of the body. The same characteristics carry over into the female, a pliability which has normally, naturally, a great strength. But as long as the female measures her strength, her ability as a woman, on the basis of how well she can control her man, how well she can dominate him, she is using a false measuring stick; for she is not supposed to dominate. It is her own sense of insecurity, her own recognition of failure to be a true female, that makes her feel that she must bolster her femaleness, her divine womanhood, with an attempt to dominate and control her man. But when a woman begins to recognize the reality of her divine position, and to glory in it, and to realize that it contains within it all that is essential to her complete fulfilment, it would be utterly wrong for the male of the species to assume that he somehow then had a right to arbitrarily dominate and control and that the female was supposed to be subservient.


There can be no pattern of subservience in divine union, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, or in a true pattern of companionship in the physical plane of being. No man who is worth his salt, who has any right to call himself a man, finds any pleasure whatsoever in dominating, in the sense of producing a state of subservience in a female, because if the man is supposedly deriving some satisfaction from producing a condition of subservience in his wife he is showing himself to be lacking as a man. No man worth his salt is interested in having a woman in a subservient state. He could find no satisfaction in her. He might as well have an animal for a companion in such a state, not a divine creature capable of sharing true companionship in all phases of his life.

As we recognize these things, we see that the reality of the positive position is not established by something that is dictatorial in relationship to personal human whims and fancies. On the other hand, any man or woman who is to be made free must accept the reality of truth and come under dominion, under control. From the standpoint of the revelation of truth where there is the proper responsibility in relationship to correction and direction, there may be a very positive position without in any sense having that position take on the nature of being dictatorial. In the divine sense it may be autocratic, but in the true analysis anything that is dictatorial is simply an attempt on the basis of human will to bring someone under subservient subjection to the human will, the personal desire merely to have someone bend to the human will. Anything that tends in that direction, whether it appears through male or female, is dictatorial, and it has no proper place. But to call the positive position in relationship to truth and the insistence that we should conform to that truth a dictatorial attitude is to reveal one's ignorance, because the truth is not based upon personal whim or fancy or personal desire. That which insists upon response to the patterns of truth and rejects anything that does not conform to the truth, that which bears to the point of truth and refuses to acknowledge anything that does not conform to truth, is not properly dictatorial. That is a part of the divine pattern of control, of divine autocracy, if you want to put it that way, which cannot and must not be confused with any human attitude that can properly be called dictatorial.
 

We recognize that the dominion as such is in truth, not in man, not in woman. The mere fact of maleness or femaleness is beside the point. The point of authority, the point of power, the point of dominion, the point of control, is centered in truth. Human beings cannot be held to the patterns of truth without love. God's love must be present if one is to experience that oneness-with which will permit truth an opportunity to control and to establish the dominion of the divine pattern of being. Without God's love there is nothing to hold the human being, male or female, to the pattern of truth. Therefore the human being in such a case becomes subject to a distortion pattern, and the distortion pattern is in control whether the human being realizes it or not. So the actuality of dominion is in truth.
 

The reality of God's love is essential to the working of that dominion, but it is not love that makes the reality of authority. It is love that makes possible the working of the authority, but the authority, the dominion, the control is vested in truth and not in love. But the working, the functioning, of truth in relationship to dominion is made possible only by love. Truth cannot make one free while one does not have love, in the sense of the fulfilment of the first great commandment, to love God. Until we center in love and recognize the truth in relationship to love, and accept it, we cannot experience the transition into the divine state of freedom which is a state that is under the dominion of truth.
 

Therefore, while certain expressions of truth have their primary manifestation through the female, and certain aspects of truth have their primary manifestation through the male, it is not a question of maleness or femaleness. It is a question of "Is it the truth?" Only the truth can have true dominion in a constructive sense. Any dominion which is exerted or established without regard to truth destroys. It always has and always will. The dominion that is established by truth builds; it is creative. But the functioning of truth in establishing that dominion, in carrying out the principles of the patterns of truth, is possible only because of love. We have pointed out many times that love may be classified as a sense of oneness-with, that is, union. We cannot say we actually love God until, or unless, we begin to have oneness with God. Oneness with God, which is love and which is something that is a reality if we love God, makes us in reality a part of God. We cannot separate ourselves from God in relationship to our own thoughts and attitudes, our functions, if we are to know this truth, union with this truth; for we must have union with the fundamental truth of the first of the two great commandments, and know that truth, before we can know the reality of oneness with God's love. Accepting that oneness, experiencing it, sharing it, we cannot continue to act and function as if we were separate from God, merely creatures down in this world looking to some God far off from us.
 

There is no such thing as love without union on some level of being. There cannot be love without a sense of oneness-with. Disordered human minds are constantly inclined to translate any sense of oneness-with that may manifest between a male and a female into some excuse for some kind of physical relationship, which is of course ridiculous. It is foolish, it is wrong, it is one of the things our servers must come to realize with absolute conviction so that the truth makes them free on this point. Otherwise the sense of oneness-with that begins to develop in the reality of God's love will be mistranslated by the human mind into something which would seem to give reason or excuse for wrong relationships, male and female.
 

There cannot be any true service without love, and love is oneness-with. Love is union. Only to the degree that you have union with God in the reality of love can you be one with God. Only to the degree that that oneness with God allows the expression of God's love to express through you into the world can you be a part of God and share in God's creative processes. By the fact that God's love is flowing through you and establishes a pattern by which union appears vibrationally, spiritually, emotionally (because it is through the feeling realm that we perceive these things), intellectually and in some respects a certain relationship in a vibratory interchange physically (for otherwise you could not give an attunement), we see that the whole pattern of service is bound up in love. God's truth expressed through Jesus Christ, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another," is vitally important to us. But if the human mind starts translating the reality of that love into an excuse for some wrong pattern of function physically, we are going to have trouble. That is what brought the fall in the first place.
 

That is not to say that the physical part of us is not to share the experiences of life. It is. But that which may be classified as the desires of the body must never be allowed to control. That is not to say that we are not to function in relationship to those desires, or that they are never to be allowed to be given opportunity of expression. Under the divine pattern there is a right place, a right way, but when that function appears its manifestation is not because the body or its desires are in control, because if the body and its desires are in control the function is wrong, without a single, solitary exception. But that which is natural to the desires of the body in the true sense, without disorder, is natural also to the spiritual and, in its proper place and time and way, may have its proper expression.
 

Some have taken the attitude that if there is to be the spiritual life there simply must not be any function in sex whatsoever, meaning physical sex or the relationship between men and women. Some teachings attempt to stop the relationships between men and women in the physical sense. That is a ridiculous thing, just as foolish as a lot of other concepts. Control from the standpoint of the spirit of reality is made manifest when the desires of the body are not permitted to dominate but when the spiritual patterns of being, working out according to the pattern of truth through the body, allow the body to participate in the creative processes, so that the natural longings contained within the body are satisfied at the proper time in the proper way. Then they are the end result of a truly spiritual function. If the expression is from the physical standpoint, hoping to get to the spiritual, it will never work; but if there is a true pattern spiritually, so that the truth is in control, there are those proper times and places provided in the outworking of the social scheme and the affairs of men.

The complete expression of truth on earth requires both men and women. The complete expression of love on earth in relationship to God's design for man and all His creation requires both men and women. It cannot be completely manifest through man, nor can it be completely manifest through women. We need to get away from the personalized concepts which cause human beings to say, "I want to be a complete being, so I must get married." Ridiculous concept, a childish attitude, immature. Marriage has its proper part and place, but it is not marriage in the legal, outer sense that is going to provide the fulfilment. So let us recognize that it is not a matter of your trying to get your fulfilment as a person, or even as a divine man or woman, that is going to permit you to know fulfilment. Until your primary concern is lifted out of yourself as a human being and out of concern for what you are going to be as a divine being to a point where your primary concern is for the complete expression for the truth on earth according to God's design, you cannot know your whole fulfilment.
 

If I were concerned about trying to find some personal fulfilment for myself, do you think we would be here? No. We would long ago have been off on some tangent. No, my fulfilment as an individual, as a human being, as an Inner Being, or any other kind of a being, is beside the point. I am not concerned about it. If I were, I would not be here talking to you. I think that should be very obvious, because if I had chosen to prostitute my abilities I would not have limited myself to teaching a handful of people, because it would not be satisfying my ego. All you have to do is take a sensible look at things. I would not have been here to start with, in any such case. I am not concerned about my fulfilment as an individual.
 

I am concerned about your fulfilment, about the fulfilment of truth through all human beings, bar none. Until you can let go of these personal, graspy things, the greed of the human mind and heart, its concern about what it is going to be as a man or woman, divine man or woman, or something else, and stop trying to get fulfilment for yourselves, stop trying to get to heaven, or position in heaven, or dominion, power, or anything else, you will not know true fulfilment. As long as you are trying to get something for yourself you are wrong, even if it is the things of God you seek. Until your primary concern is the fulfilment of truth for all humanity, the centering in God's love, the reality of truth which we come to know in union, which makes men free (not just one person or a few but all) so that the wholeness of truth may be revealed in patterns of being which allow the fulness of God's love to be revealed on earth—until that is our concern without regard to personal desire, personal cost, personal effort, what we have done or have not done, until that is the controlling passion of our lives, we are not worthy to be counted citizens of the kingdom or disciples of our Lord and King.
 

The controlling passions of our lives must be that the truth shall have dominion and that God's love shall be made manifest through the body of truth in men and women around us and in all the world. That is what characterized the life of our Lord on earth, and unless that characterizes our lives we are not following Him nor can we be truly called His disciples. Peace be unto you.



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