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XIX.

Expressions “Virgin-born,” “Twice-born,” “Sons of God,”

All Imply Man Regenerate through a Pure Intuition

            ALTHOUGH it is always “a new thing in the earth” of minds blinded by Ecclesiasticism to the realities of the Spirit, that a “woman should compass a man,” it is for minds spiritually percipient and able to discern the spirit through the letter, an eternal verity in perpetual course of realisation.

            For that which the expression denotes is that process of regeneration wherein the intuition bears so essential a part. It is for this reason that the regenerate of old were called virgin-born, twice-born, demigods and Sons of God; and that the Bible describes the process of the Church’s restoration from its lapses into the bondage and darkness of Ecclesiasticism, as a re-birth from a woman, meaning always the intuition. For the process is the same for the individual and the collective.

            Mention has already been made of the salvation

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wrought to Israel through “Esther.” Of like nature are the narratives of the Deluge, the Exodus, the Captivity, and others. Related exoterically as of natural phenomena or national events, in their esoteric sense they describe the Church’s fall into materiality through yielding to the priest, and its recovery through heeding the prophet, the “son of the Woman,” Intuition. It is upon a flood of the waters of the Soul that the Church – always the ark of humanity – is upborne to the heights of spiritual attainment, the “mount of the Lord,” the essential condition of ascent whereto is the washing by the waters of regeneration. It is in the same waters that the Church, rising in the night of her spiritual darkness and fleeing from the Egypt of materiality wherein she has been held in such grievous bondage of an Ecclesiasticism become wholly corrupt, must be cleansed before she can win her way to the Promised Land of her due perfection. (1) And it is through heeding the intuition that the Church, as the Prodigal Daughter of God, when satiated to loathing with the husks of materiality provided for her by the swineherds of Ecclesiasticism, comes to her true self and, discovering that she is not of those for whom such fare is fitted, arises and returns to the Father’s house. Where arriving she finds – what but for her priests she had never doubted – that it is the Mother’s house also, and that the Father and Mother are at one. While they who would accord her a churlish reception, are not yet really born, because not, as she then is, twice-born.

            And now all things point to the time that is at hand as that wherein God’s “two witnesses” in man, the Intellect and the Intuition, after lying so long “dead in the streets of that great city” – a civilisation fashioned and controlled by an Ecclesiasticism shrouded in its three veils, “blood, idolatry, and the curse of

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Eve” – wherein the Lord, the Divinity in man, is systematically crucified, shall rise and stand upon their feet, and ascend into the heaven of their proper supremacy, vice Lucifer deposed. Where established, they shall dispense to the world the perfect doctrine which is to consume and destroy the whole brood of the falsities and follies hitherto in possession. So shall the pandemonium the world so long has been be replaced by the “new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth Equity;” the equity that consists in, and that comes of the perfect balance in man of Intellect and Intuition, as king and queen of his mental system, in default of which he is not man but madman, as the world’s condition never more surely demonstrated than at the present day.

            It has already been stated that it is precisely such equilibrium in man’s system that the Bible denotes by “Michael” and “Melchizedek.” And it is in token of the same mystery that, in the Zodiac, the sign of Libra, the Balance, is interposed between Scorpio and Virgo. Only when the “man,” Intellect, is balanced by the “woman,” Intuition, is there escape from the serpent of the Sense-nature.

NOTES

(73:1) For the recovered ritual celebrating the Soul’s Exodus, see Clothed with the Sun, II, xiii (6), “Hymn to the Planet-God.”

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