The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-11

whole effort and end of the naovemen'
does not contain one un- Christian senti
ment or action. II is based on the-Yery
principles altered by Christ himselfand
for which he persisted at the hands so
insurers, extortioners, hypocrites and
hide bound priests"
The following extract manifests almost
as profound ignorance of the teachings
of Genesis and Of the gospels as any or,
,thodox Tfinitarian ever exhibited
"And yod, women of the world, what
is your position in the present dispense
tion? Are YOU satisfied? Does the
Mosaic or the Christian dispensation do
justice to you? No. Woman has always
been considered an inferior, more in the
nature of a servant than co-equal OF
lPan. Woman. had no justice infthe
theology of Moses, neither did Christ at
tempt to elevate her into equality with
man. He has nothing to say in con;
demnation of the slavish status of woman
in His age, neither had His biographers
ior followers. Even the biblical record
of the assumed God man contains no
particulars relative to the God-wife and
God-mother. We are told nothing re-
specting her personality. She lives and
dies in obseurity, like the wife. Of any
other laboring man, distinguished for
nothing but bearing . son out of wed
lock. Whereas, if the record were true,
and her maternity /: supernatural, she
should have been the equal of !, Christ.
But Christ himself. never claimed SUI
pernatural begetting by a "Holy Ghost, :"
nor did any of his neighbors ever hear
of anything of the kind. They knew
him only as the son of the carpenter,
playing with his brothers and other
boys. They would have ridiculed Mary
had she told them about any connection
with "Holy Ghost" is clear that
she never heard of anything of the kind,
but was faithful wife to the carpenter.
All these supernatural fables were manu-,
featured long after the death of Christ
and his family" ,-t..-.
Did the writer ever read the book of
Genesis2 If 80, how is it possible that
he can have failed to remark the singu-
lar fact that Moses declares expressly
and with emphasis and reiteration that
man was created Gin the image and
likeness Of God ;" in this respect
that he was created male and female y
both sexes being in one form or person ?
"And God said not good that man should
be onew And that afterwards He took
art of the substance Of the human and
manufactured it into another form, or
person, into which he distributed the
female element of the dual being whom
He had already created, and ON this
identity Of nature in separate forms,
founded the institution of marriage, so
that Adam said of the woman, "this is
now bone of my bone, and flesh Of my
flesh ;" "and therefore shall man leave
his father and mother, and shall cleaye
unto his wife; and they shall be one
hesh." e..
Could human language be framed into
any form of speeSh that would more
forcibly declare her "equality with
manW
Now, the reason that Moses taught
this invlncible equality and pristine
unity of the sexes, is clearly stated by
himself in the fifth and sixth chapters
of Exodus, where he informs us that
up to that time the Jews had never had
any knowledge of the Supreme Being
except as God, the One mot God
Almighty as our version has it, ; but that
at that time, the divine nature was
especially revealed to him as jehovah
the feminine essence of the dual Deity,
(for Elohim does not mean lone; !" it is
the dual number of Hebrew noun and
means either two, or one dual God): so
that when Moses says that Man (the
human) twas created in the image and
likeness of God" in respect of the fact
that she was created male and female,
he said 1t because he knew that Elohim-
Jehovah was one Godpossesslng in Him
self both elements of spiritual sex-hood ;
Elohim the Infinite Wisdom and Power;
Jehovah the Infinite Life and Love: one
FatEer-Mother God.
The Talmudists taught the same truth
as to the original human being, and so
did Plato in his Symposium. 1t was the
common faith of all primitive races be.
fore there was any idolatry or polytheism
on, earth.
1t was the primitive faith of Jews,
Egyptians, Indians and Chinese, all of
whom believed that the dual God would
sometime be manifested by the genera
ton and birth of Son into the world
and because the advent of the Son was
long delayed, their faith grew weak, and
they fell into idolatry.
"Neither did Christ attempt to elevate
her into equality with men" =.
One would suppose the writer to be
ignorant of the fact that Jesus made
monogamic marriage sacrament of re-
ligion. securing her equality by the bond
of faith, and of the fact that the better
condition of women throughout Christ
endom grew directly out of this truth.