The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03

ego has distinctive duty to perform and
distinctive experiences to acquire, and so
1T has when representing the male prlncl-
pie. There is nothing inharmonlous
naturally between these two paths OF ex-
perience acquiring, because every ego must
travel both to the very end-now man.
now woman-but to essay to cross ano
recross from path to path until the harvest
for that incarnation is gath cred is TO de1y
the law of God.
The ego when Loyalty fulfilling the
divine mission of womanhood is upon the
plane of wisdom and spirituality, while
the ego, as mar, is generally upon the
plane of love and materiality. Love is not
an attribute of deity, because IL is uncer-
tain, changeable and Influenced by cir
life of godliness in spirit and in truth, and
love IS the incentive to q life OF sense
pleasure. Wisdom seeks for fresh expert
ence IN the realm of righteousness, ana
love seeks for qualification in the realm OF
satisfaction, or i'll what is misnamed hap
plnesS. The Over Soul comes IN toucn
with humanity by wisdom leading
humanity upward, but loves kindness by
tarrying to toy with briar and thistle, thus
deceiving itself and humanity. The ego
when clothed in wisdom, or the female
principle of universal life, is lofty OF pur-
pose and sincere in endeavor. 1t comes a
woman that when it comes again a man,
1t may be more able TO SOW purity and
gather godhness.
But why, then, do some women aspire
to, the plane of love rather than TO the
realm of wisdom? Because in a previous
incarnation the love principle so predoml-
mated, through failure to cultivate Its op-
posite, that Karmic law conslgns them In
this incarnation TO dwell upon the outer
edge of the material and spiritual restless
ness of mans self-made sphere. Not that
they are not good and true women, Dut
IISt lesson
they neglected to learn before-that uni
versal life places the burden of carrying
humanity forward upon the shoulders OF
woman because her way is the way OF
spiritual wisdom. But if she fails to en-
ploy wisdom's influence for humanity
spiritual good the fault is hers and she
must atone for duty neglected.
The worlds great and holy teachers OF
truth have always been men in whom the
gentleness of woman and the wisdom of
God predominated IN the Immediately
preceding incarnation. Therefore, for
woman to engage in political strife is to
show that in her latest previous life she
held to life of agitation and to acts ma
terial in conception and in execution.
The cause of manly women and womenly
| men appearing upon the worlds stage is
distinctly seen in the operation OF Karma.
There are other reasons why woman
suffrage is not in accord with the philos-
ophy of theosophy. The right to vote
carries with it the right to hold Office, and
the spirit which makes woman long for
| political equality would make very many
women long for not only Office but the
spoils of office, and if her ethical nature
! should give way before the onslaught of
practical politics upon her morals, she
would be stranded. Still she would re-
main q woman, and the monad seeking an
| opportunity to again take up its round of
experience would recite in the story of its
/ environment the ethical effect of such an
| avenue of rebirth. Aside from a repre-
! sentation of the wisdom of universal
| life in its work of advancing humanity
| GOdward, woman is commissioned by
| nature to afford the reincarnating monad
/ the highest, the purest and the most en-
couraging conditions under which to re-
sumo Its pilgrimage. For that, If for no
| other reason, she should keep herself un-
fettered from politics.
Political equality makes common meet
ing ground for all kinds of men and all
kinds of women. If in its practical opera
tion man should prove to be the stronger
his methods and standard of conduct would
prevail and the woman would have to con-
form thereto or abandon the field alto
gether. If the woman should prevail she
would also govern, but in any event pos
terity would suffer. The ethical influence
of the good woman which, by common
consent, places her in advance of man in
civilizations onward march would be lost
70 those now upon the earth and to those
who must come again. 1t is n most serious
| thing to retard soul growth, but 1t is an
even more.serious thing tolthrust..a reincar-
mating ego amid environment that is the
product of willful degeneracy. Because of
the relation she holds to those already
here and to those awaiting opportunity to
| again begin work upon the fabric of their
existence, theosophy protests that woman
is bound by the ties of the brotherhood of
man and of the glory that awaits the earn
ing of it for every age in the flesh or out of
it. to keep herself the embodiment of the
wisdom of God and the fit vehicle for
awaiting souls to employ to fetch them to
the field of their life's labor that they may
work out their redemption. ARMoND.
IIIOAn A AI,C GnAGPEGG