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 in spiritual interests, placing man above and woman below. Of this reversal the prophet speaks, “Surely your turning of things upside down shall be reckoned as the (case of the) potter’s clay; for shall the clay say of him that formed it, He formed me not?” etc., etc. By this, the original sin, society has been doing the work opposite to that of re-constructing the spiritual hermaphrodite. It has been stirring in the direction of making the separation more pronounced, the discord greater; and this discord has been the parent of all the discords of the world.

‘I think, Lettie, I have now shown you at least how my uncle would answer your inquiry as to the cause of the downward attraction of woman to man of which you speak. Both that and the degradation of man are explained by the Fall, that is, the disintegration of the hermaphrodite, which disintegration it is the mission and raison d’être of Religion properly so called, to repair.’