Woman and disease. A collection of facts for women. By approved authorities

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Preface

As the aggregation of earnest and fearless efforts is required in relieving and preventing unnecessary suffering of the human family, no individual worker in that direction should cringe when the world criticises, because criticism is inevitable whether the efforts are made to degrade or to benefit humanity; but the ultimate result of every individual influence, whether exerted for evil or for good, is to receive its just reward. If degeneracy of the mind causes disease and suffering, and evolution of the mind promotes health and happiness, then parents should make special efforts to teach the young to avoid evil and to acquire wisdom.

Physicians may greatly aid humanity in acquiring a knowledge of the laws of health and the cause of disease, by means of which disease may not only be avoided but annihilated. In order that this book may be an efficient aid to women, the best works concerning the subjects discussed have been studied and quoted from, and the author's statements are also verified by these quotations. This work, while in the manuscript form, was reviewed by some of the ablest critics ; it is now ready to begin its voyage upon the merciless ocean, to perish or to survive, as divine justice will determine.

M. H.

WOMAN AND DISEASE.

Chapter I The Divine Mother

Contents. — The Normal Development of the Human Race. — Ancient Conception of the Deity. — A Kabbalistic Statement that where there is Unbalanced Force there is the Origin of Evil. — All Sacred Histories refer to the Divine Mother as well as to the Divine Father. — Humanity Capable of understanding that Three Distinct Persons constitute the Triune God. — Science proclaims the Existence of a Divine Trinity and the Law of the Triune Equality. — The Objective Nature Prevalent among the Lower Animals becomes an Objective Force in Man. — Truths concerning the Relations of the Divine Family to the Human Family. — Each Individual Physical Life normally develops into a Spiritual Life. — Objective Tyranny causes the Spirit of Resentment. — The Human Family first divided into Two Distinct Races, one following a Retrograde Change, the other in the Line of Normal Evolution. — The Moral compromising with the Immoral in Marriage. — Hamitic Creed. — Semitic Creed. — Japhetic Creed. — Every Human Being has the Power to accomplish a Special Work for the Advancement of Humanity. — God the Mother evolves the Spiritual Worlds. — Degraded Humanity must behold a Divine Image in Order to make Human Evolution Possible. — Scriptural History teaches that Humanity must Honor God the Mother as it Honors God the Father and God the Son.

The normal development of the human race depends upon its intelligence of divine laws, which include physical, moral and spiritual laws. In studying the laws of health and the cause of disease, researches lead back to the genesis of humanity, when the first human parents were created physically perfect; that is, were created with the higher nerve centres sufficiently complex to recognize the will of their divine Parents ; thus these animal minds became living souls.

Biblical history relates that God said : " Let us make man in our image after our likeness," ' also that Adam and Eve were created in the image of God, male and female, and were named "man." According to the Kabbalah, or Qabalah," the sacred history of the Chaldeans and Hebrews, Elohim 3 said: "Let us make man in our image after our likeness." Mr. Macgregor Mathers, author of the Kabbalah Unveiled, says : " Xow for some reason or other best known to themselves, the translators of the Bible have carefully crowded out of exist, ence and smothered up every reference to the fact that the Deity is both masculine and feminine. They have translated a feminine plural by a masculine singular in the case of the word ' Elohim.' They have, however, left an inadvertent admission of their knowledge that it was plural in Gen. i. 26."

How could man have been created in the image of God, male and female, unless God were male and

2 "The Kabbalah may be said to be the only really valuable resume of the most ancient religions." It is considered the key to the Bible. Air. Macgregor Mathers, a Chaldean and Hebrew scholar, and author of the Kabbalah Unveiled, says: " I wish particularly to direct the reader's attention to the stress laid by the Kabbalah on the feminine aspects of the Deity, and the shameful way in which any allusion to these has been suppressed in the ordinary translations of the Bible ; also the kabbalistical equality of male and female."

The Kabbalah should be of interest to biblical students, for how can they understand the Bible if they are ignorant of the construction put upon it by the nation whose sacred book it formed ? Were the real and sublime philosophy of the Bible better known there would be few fanatics, sectarians, or egotists.

3 Elohim, the Mother of Life. (See Kabbalah Unveiled, p. 22.)

female ? " The most ancient conception of the Deity was that of an infinite paternal and maternal principle, pervading, creating" and sustaining all life." '

Yet on account of the undeveloped state of the human minds of the primitive races their languages consisted of very few words, one being or one w r ord representing many individuals or attributes. As the races progressed in intelligence they recognized the necessity of coining a sufficient number of words to express their ideas. Nevertheless, modern egotists still retain the earlier custom of the primitive races in order to annihilate feminine individuality and establish masculine individuality as a monopoly. In the Hebrew Bible the name of the Deity 2 consists of four letters, IHVH, a Tetragrammaton, 3 meaning both male and female, 4 and also combining in its meaning the divine and the human family. In the Kabbalah the Tetragrammaton is represented in the form of a cross, thus :

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Its true meaning comprehends all life, Father, Mother, Son, Daughter. In the Greek the Tetragrammaton is rendered as including the divine Father, the divine Mother, the divine Son and the Church (which Christ

1 " Higher Possibilities of Life," by Lawrence Oliphant, p. 197.

2 The name of the Deity which we call Jehovah is in the Hebrew a name of four letters, IHVH. "IHVH is usually rendered by Tetragrammaton, instead of by Jehovah." — Kabbalah Unveiled. The forms Javeh and Jah are sometimes used.

3 Blessed is the people "whose God is Tetragrammaton. — Kabbalah Unveiled,

All the paths of the Tetragrammaton are mercy and truth. — Ibid, p. 183.

It is better to trust Tetragrammaton than to put any confidence in princes. — Ibid, p. 208. 4 Ibid, p. 202. h Ibid, p. 72.

established for the human family) as the Daughter or Bride. (See Rev. xxi., xxii.)

" In the trigram V Christ the Son assumeth the symbols of his Father and of his Mother, and is called Doth, Da'th, Knowledge, since he is the testimony of them both." ( l 289)

" Christ the Son becometh the heir of his Father and of his Mother, and by him is the Church cherished." ( ! 290)

Let us not lose sight of the great kabbalistical idea that the trinity is always completed by, and finds its realization in, the quaternary; that is, IHV, 2 the trinity of the Father, Son and Mother, is completed by the quaternary IHVH of Father, Mother, Son and Bride (the Church or humanity). ( l 35)

The Kabbalah also states that C 295) "where there is unbalanced force there is the origin of evil, and hence that which is not both male and female is called half a body. Now no blessing can rest upon an incomplete being." These statements are sufficient proofs of the teachings maintained throughout the Kabbalah ; namely, that from creation man and woman are coequal and coexistent, — perfectly equal one with the other. This fact the translators of the Bible have been at great pains to conceal, by carefully suppressing every reference to the feminine portion of the Deity, or by constantly translating feminine nouns as masculine ; and this is the work of the so-called religious men ( ! 335) who assume to have correctly translated the Bible from its original into the English language.

2 The trinity of the Tetragram means the trinity in unity. The Elohim is the name applied to the feminine part of Tetragrammaton. — Kabbalah Unveiled.

In all sacred histories there are words which alone refer to the divine Mother, as there are certain words which alone refer to the divine Father. The Jews considered the tabernacle the abode of the Shekinah ; the "Sheklnah" is a Hebrew term for the "divine Mother." Scholars have recognized the fact that the word " Shaddai " in the Hebrew Bible is translated "the Almighty" in the English Bible; though indicating the femininity of God, it has been handed down to the different nations as a masculine Hebrew word: Wheresoever in the Hebrew Bible the word " Shaddai " occurs, when rightly understood it is to be applied to the divine Feminine. " The Almighty " occurs in the following passages in the Old Testament, which we would earnestly recommend our readers to study carefully and separately, remembering that they should substitute for " the Almighty " the words " the divine Feminine " ' or " the divine Mother." — Gen. xvii. i; xxviii.. 3 ; xxxv. 11; xliii. 14; xlviii. 3; xlix. 25; Exod. vi. 3; Num. xxiv. 4; Ruth i. 20, 21; Job v. 17; vi. 4, 14; viii. 3, 5; xi. 7; xiii. 3; xv. 25; xxi. 15, 20; xxii. 3, 17, 23, 25, 26; xxiii. 16; xxiv. 1; xxvii. 2, 10, 11, 13; xxix. 5; xxxi. 2, 35; xxxii. 8; xxxiii. 4; xxxiv. 10, 12; xxxv. 13; xxxvii. 23; xl. 2; Ps. lxviii. 14; xci. 1; Isa. xiii. 6; Ezek. i. 24; Joel i. 15.

In the Greek Testament the word " Pneuma," or " Holy Spirit," refers to the divine Mother in the following references: Matt. iii. 16; xii. 18, 31, 32; xxviii. 19; Mark i. 10; iii. 29; xiii. 11; Luke iii. 22; xii. 10, 12; John i. ^\ iii. 6, 8, 34; iv. 24; vii. 39; xiv. 17; xv. 26; xvi. 13; Acts i. 8, 16; ii. 3^ 38; v. 3, 32; vii. 51; ix.

1 " The Higher Possibilities of Life," by Lawrence Oliphant, p. 448.

" Confusion and vagueness have arisen from the unwarrantable use which the English translators and divines have made of the term 'Holy Ghost' T:;t word * ghost' in its biblical sense has become inextricably interwoven with a dogma, and is unnecessarily interpolated in the place of 'pneuma,' or * spirit,' for the purpose of supporting that dogma. We therefore recommend our readers once and forever to expunge from their vocabulary the expression "ghost.'

4 The Apostles' Creed may still be held as teaching nothing which is not, if rightly understood, absolutely and entirely true. It can be read thus: I believe in G::~ :::e F?.:::t: :-.:-_.\ :r. :he A'.rs.i^'r.r/ M::htr :: ':.-:.r-:_ and earth ; or I beheve in God the Father and God the Mother, makers of heaven and earth, and in the Christ their Son, who became incarnate to save the human family. He was crucified and buried by evil men; the third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven, to sit at the right hand of God the Father and God the Mother. From hence Christ shall come again to separate between those who reject and those who accept the way of salvation — Christ's way — which cleanses from the evils of this world and evolves the soul into the righteousness of the spiritual world."

As the word "God" and the word "man" require three words, "father, mother" and "child," to express their true meaning, humanity is now capable of understanding that it requires three distinct persons to constitute the triune God or the triune man, the divine family and the human family. Women have the same authority for claiming that the words " God " and "man " should invariably be rendered in the feminine gender as men have for invariably rendering these words masculine; either is false rendering.

Reason, as well as intuition, teaches that if it is the duty of humanity to recognize a divine Father or a divine Son, it is equally necessary to recognize a divine Mother. If there is a divine Father there must be a divine Mother. If the Mother does not exist, neither does the Father or the Son ; one is impossible without the other two. " We hear much of the Father and Son, but we hear nothing of the Mother, in the ordinary religions of the day," (Kabbalah, p. 922,) although in ancient languages the word meaning " God " is in the plural number and in the masculine and in the feminine gender. Not only history, legend and lore, but science proclaims the existence of a divine Trinity and the law of the triune equality. Science has discovered that this law belongs not alone to the divine and the human family, but to the animal and vegetable families, each of which consists of parents and offspring. Triune equality is indispensable to the normal evolution of all life. The human family cannot afford to ignore this truth, which has been preserved by different individual nations up to the present time. It has existed throughout all ages ; it is one of the fundamental laws of evolution which recognizes the individual rights of the child and

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Bible, assuming that Paul was inspired when he uttered such absurdities as ' Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord ; for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church ; and he is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." " And the wife see that she reverence her husband." ' " Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection ; but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." ' 2

Christ did not teach such doctrine, neither should such false teachings be imposed upon humanity as divinely inspired words. Through Christ's divine teaching the natures of the divine Father and the divine Mother are being revealed to humanity.

It was the divine Mother nature that spoke through Christ when he called the little children to him; when he refused to condemn the fallen woman, the helpless victim of sensual men ; and when he in pity and tenderness said: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! " — Matt, xxiii. t>7- "And when he was come near he beheld the city, and wept over it." — Luke xix. 41.

" It was this tenderness which evoked a response from the hearts of women such as no prophet or teacher had ever evoked before, and prompted Christ in the moment of his supreme agony to utter these sublime words : ' Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' '

The divine Mother is ever willing to comfort the suffering and teach wisdom to all. The wise are ever desirous of learning wisdom. The less wise become desirous of wisdom only through suffering. As every human being sins more or less, so must every human being suffer more or less, according to just laws.

Woman has progressed faster in wisdom than man, and has more nearly reached the spiritual image of the divine Mother, after whose likeness Eve was made. Suffering will yet cause men to earnestly desire wisdom to evolve into the spiritual image of the divine Father, after whose likeness Adam was made.

Truths concerning the relations of the divine Family to the human family are recognized as rapidly as human intelligence advances in wisdom. Humanity is comprehending the necessity of the human trinity acknowledging the divine Trinity. Christ says to every human being, " Ye must be born again," affirming that a new birth — a spiritual birth — is absolutely necessary to evolve a human mind sufficiently spiritual to enter the kingdom of heaven ; the Mother God ' can teach every member of the human family the wisdom that will make them free and capable of recognizing the divine law of their being ; that each human life can evolve only in a direct relation with the divine Father or in a direct relation with the divine Mother.

According to the exact laws of the physical world, each offspring develops into the physical image of its father or its mother, as each individual physical life must normally develop in order to evolve into a spiritual life.

1 Many clergymen of different churches teach that the Holy Spirit is masculine, although the divine name is rendered feminine in the languages in which it was first written — Chaldee, Hebrew, and Greek.

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Failure to recognize the equality of the two sexes and their normal relations has been the cause of human degeneracy and disease. Men have ruled by physical force ; women have ruled by strategy. The rule of man alone is called patriarchal government; the rule of woman alone is called matriarchal government. The rule of either produces an abnormal condition of the human family, from which arise false interpretations of divine laws.

When one being or one sex rules another, the one in authority tends to become egotistical and tyrannical, and the governed become resentful, as well as degraded. Their offspring, because of their helplessness, are the greatest sufferers. Biblical history relates that Cain, the first child born to Adam and Eve, inherited the spirit of an egotist and a tyrant, which caused him to murder his brother Abel. Cain afterwards became a wanderer, and one of his descendants, a murderer also, was the first polygamist. Thus with Adam and Lamach originated a race of egotists and sensualists, known as the " sons and daughters of men."

The spirit of resentment, resulting in murder, Cain must have inherited from his mother, Eve, as he also inherited the spirit of egotism and tyranny from his father, Adam. Tyrants invariably excite the spirit of resentment in their slaves, so long as the slaves possess any intelligence.

A decided change seems to have occurred in the lives of Adam and Eve after witnessing the result of their evil influence upon their children ; for of Enoch, a descendant of their third son, Seth, born to them after this terrible experience, history records that he " walked with God " ; that is, he was obedient to God's laws. One of Enoch's descendants, whose name also was Lamach, was the father of Xoah, who, according- to divine instruction, built the ark. In time those who obeyed divine laws were named "the sons and daughters of God."

Thus the human family was first divided into two distinct races; one following in the line of retrograde change, the other in the line of normal evolution.

History records that these first two races did not remain distinct; the moral compromised with the immoral race by marriage, and, as it invariably occurs, the union of virtue with vice proved disastrous to the better, and without benefit to the degraded element. By the association and amalgamation of these first two races, the entire human family became so evil that God repented the creation of man. (Gen. iv.

The human race was, therefore, destroyed by a flood which covered the face of the earth, and of this great family only eight human beings survived : father, mother, three sons and three daughters-in-law, who were saved by obeying God's directions. (Gen. vii., viii.) These sons and daughters became the ancestors of three distinct races, which were for ages designated as Hamitic, Semitic, and Japhetic races.

A? these three races originated from the union of the two primary types, they had equal opportunities for progress and civilization. Their separation seems to have been caused by originating different creeds or beliefs.

1 This distinction, it should be remembered, is sociologic, not ethnographic. Only i few years ago these names were applied to the races of humanity, but modern

Thus according to biblical genealogy all human beings now in existence are descended from these first three families. (Gen. ix. 18.) If so, no royal blood or royal human family can truly exist.

Anathemas and divine blessings fall equally upon all, accordingly as they have resisted divine laws or have obeyed them. Each primary creed tended to produce certain general characteristics that are inherent in each race.

The people of the Hamitic type respect neither the divine nor the human. The typical Hamitic man lives solely for sensual gratification, which degrades him below the level of the brute creation, and renders him a veritable savage. The Hamitic woman cares nothing for man, except as he can contribute means for her support and ease. She is willing to cater to man's low, immoral nature so long as he can give financial compensation. When he fails to do so she becomes still more degraded by promiscuous soliciting, to reap a greater financial harvest ; she does not care to become a legal wife, in fact she prefers not to be, unless she can by so doing secure greater financial compensation than she can gain in her capacity as a mistress of one or many. She resents man's tyranny by alluring him to destruction.

This type of women submits, when compelled by circumstances, to maternal suffering and disease, but cares not to investigate the cause and effect of their degraded condition. It is the belief of this people that human life, with its joys and sorrows, ends with this life.

investigations have resulted in various and somewhat confusing classifications. In nH classifications, however, the Semitic family is retained as a distinct type. Biblical history for the greater part concerns this family.

The Semitic race, according to biblical history, first worshipped God the Father, and gradually evolved into believing in God the Son. The Semitic man poses before the world as "the divinely appointed head and ruler of the family." He believes the Semitic race of men to be God's chosen people, through whom a royal line of human beings shall be continued through the ages, to subdue and rule all other nations of the earth, although as yet these prophecies are not fulfilled. He still fully believes that the word of God should be interpreted as meaning the Semitic man as the lion of Judah shall rule the world.

Free humanity as thoroughly believes this race of men will share the same fate as the elect of other races, who affirm themselves alone to be God's chosen people.

The Bible teaches that God is no respecter of persons ; and Christ said, " Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." Undoubtedly egotism and tyranny are the objective forces used in degrading humanity.

The Semitic type of woman slavishly submits to the sufferings of maternity and its accompanying diseases. She dares not question if such suffering be necessary and unavoidable ; she has been taught by " their patriarchs " that all women must pay the penalty of Eve's sins by the agonies of maternity, and only by such suffering can they appease the wrath of God, in whose image their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons alone were created.

In the theology of the Semitic race there has gradually been systemized a sentiment in effect that, were it not for the convenience and comfort of these human lords, woman would not have been allowed to exist.

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The price she pays for continued existence is almost absolute submission to man ; yet for this price she hopes to purchase financial support and gain heaven by her sacrifice.

The typical Semitic woman also submits to man's authority because she considers it her religious duty, supposing man to have been created superior to woman, and a mediator between her and God.

In order to please her assumed lord and master, her greatest desire is to be physically developed, even though mentally annihilated. She considers it her greatest honor to be a wife, even if she knows that her husband's attention and affections are habitually squandered upon immoral women.

Not to be a mother is a disgrace she can scarcely endure, although her husband is a sensualist, dissipated and diseased. Regardless of this degraded status, she prefers to be a mother of many children and willingly obedient to her husband's every wish ; she considers it an honor that "he" thinks for her, rules her and "supports" her; if he fails to keep her in ease and comfort, she is willing to act in the capacity of a servant, if he will but acknowledge her before the world as his wife.

The Japhetic race was the last to give to the world its sacred creed; this last and best is as much in advance of the Semitic creed of sociology as the Semitic is in advance of the Hamitic savagery.

This race recognizes the fundamental teachings of Christ : that the divine Trinity and the human trinity include Father, Mother and Child: that the word "God" and the word " man " in the beginning included both male intelligent to construct a language suited to its more complex ideas.

The true woman of this race recognizes the true man as her equal. She believes that husband and wife should be equal morally, mentally and spiritually, and, unless morally equal, no marriage should occur. Just laws will not sanction the propagation of morally diseased children.

She believes that even* human being has the power : . : . : : ziplish a special work for the advancement of hunianity; that men, women and children can, of their own free will, choose to which of these three sociological races they will belong, as they have the power within themselves to retrograde or progress, and that only the egotists claim a certain church to be God s chosen people, or that Gods blessing belongs to one sex alone. She also comprehends that intense maternal suffering, with its accompanying disease, is both unnecessary and degrading; that a knowledge of the cause and effects of disease should be thoroughly studied, in order to prevent unnecessary suffering.

This progressive race believes that God the Father controls the evolution of material worlds ; that he is the generous giver of temporal blessings, and that he demonstrates scientific laws by physical forces.

God the Mother controls the evolution of spiritual lives ; the generous giver of spiritual blessings, the true interpreter of spiritual laws, 1 and the spiritual comforter.

"Christ said: '-The Holy Spirit will teach you all things and bring all things - ■ _: remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John xiv. 26. " For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.'' L 12

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The special work of God the Son was to apprise the human family of its relation to the divine Family, and establish the church as a school. This school, or church, of Christ's belongs to the entire human race.

Christ endured the most intense suffering of mind and body, submitting to severest cruelties without retaliation, yet nobly resisting every temptation, and living a perfect human life, by which he became a perfect human model and mediator between the divine and human families, — a prince of peace, illustrating to humanity how to live.