Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-01-03
THE PEOPLES RELIGION (;
OR, EQUALITY OF THE SEXES.

women wasting so much enthusiasm on Intent
perance, polygamy prostitution-all outgrowths
of woman's egradation-instead of utterly and
completely repudiating the idea OF her dlvlnely-
ordained subsection, wherever they ind It
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 5.
soThe soul of things.'' AS in the sphere OF
physical parentage, fatherhood implies mother
hood, so in the sphere of spiritual parentage'
Divine Fatherhood implies Divine Motherhood.
RELIGION is defined as "a system of faith and
worship" Who has developed the religions OF
the world? Man. Where shall we look for the
germ of the religions that he has developed!
Tn the sphere of sex, which is the provocative
sphere of life.
What was the gernl-thought that man has
planted in the provocative sphere, and from
which he has developed the religions OF the
world? His germ-thought was the "subJectlon
of the woman" Thus at the founding OF hu-
mau life, he has denied the equality OF the
sexes. lt
DENYING the equality of the sexes in the
sphere of physical parentage, is it strange that
in the religions that he has developed, ne
should deny the equality of the sexes in the
Divine parentage by assuming that the mother
principle of the universe (when he recognizes
such principle) is in "subjection" to the
father principle? a spe
"But will overturn and overturn, saith the
Lord" The sphere of religion may be called
the sphere of maternal authority, as distin-
euished from the sphere Of politics, which is
the sphere of paternal authority. If by the
law of fitness, man, as the father of the race,
is the rightful authority in the sphere OF poll
tics, then, by the same law of fitness, woman,
as the mother Of the race, is the rightful all
thority in the sphere Of religion. Thus would
each sex go unto 'their own place"
When women shall have developed into the
knowledge of her rights in the sphere OF sex,
she will then take possession OF and preside
over that sphere. She will plant there new
eerm-thought, and that thought will be the
t,eoua1itv of the sexes" From that germ
thought she will develope the religion OF the
future. A religion that, in the sphere of phys
ical parentage, will recognize woman as being
equal to man, in the sphere of Divine parentage'
will recognize Mother God as equal to Father
God. Moreover, the religion that woman will
develop will be just to daughters as well as to
mothers, for it will recognize daughters OF
Mother God as we'll as sons of Father God.
AS Christ said, "No man knoweth the Son
but the Father neither knoweth any man the
Father save the Son, and he to whom the Son
will reveal Him." so woman can say, None
lnoweth the Daughter but the Mother, and
none knoweth the Divine Mother but the
DAUGHTER. and those to whom the Daughter
shall reveal Her.
Through the ages Of the past, the pnestly
caste have assumed to be the worlds spiritual
teachers. AS such, they have claimed to inter-
pret to the world the Divine Fatherhood. When
woman shall have developed into the knowledge
of her rights in the sphere of religion, which
is the sphere. of spiritual motherhood, and,
through this knowledge, shall have become her
own Interpreter, she will then reveal and inter-
nret TO the world the Divine Motherhood Rul-
ing over herself in the realm of motherhood
physical and spiritual, it will be for the coming
woman as a spiritual mother, to teach the rev.
ereud fathers that that "stone"-the equality
of the sexes''-which was "rejected" by the
builders of the worlds first spiritual temple,
shall. through woman's development, become
the crowning dome of the new spiritual temple
of the future.
"Behold, make all things new"
LUCY A. RAMsDEN.