When there were no depths, I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. In the book of Proverbs, Solomon considers wisdom to be a feminine force who has been with God since the beginning, aiding God in the creation of the universe. We also see this in the Bible through the words of Solomon, found in the book of Proverbs. The masculine energy directs the shakti (power) up the spine and to the brain, sparking a spiritual rebirth. This divine feminine power lives in everyone, yet remains dormant until it comes in contact with masculine energy. In Hinduism, the kundalini is the manifestation of the shakti (power), or the divine feminine energy that is located at the base of the spine. These ideas are present in Hinduism found in the kundalini, which in Sanskrit means the coiled snake. Yet, with both masculine and feminine working together, we see thoughtful action, the power of the will and vision, combined with the creative force and careful thought to bring it into manifestation. The feminine without the masculine would constantly reflect and fail to actually do anything, resulting in stagnation and complacency. Without the feminine, the masculine will act without restraint, order, or reason, resulting in chaos. The masculine is linked with the will, while the feminine is related to receiving impressions from the masculine and conducts the work of generating new thoughts, concepts, ideas, including the work of the imagination. Feminine energy is described as receptive, sacred, treasured, protective, maintainer of traditions, honoring priority, and nourishing what is most essential to life. In hermetics, masculine energy is described as penetrative, assertive, progressive, conquesting, and actively directing inherent energy towards its feminine counterpart. Though the union of positive and negative charges in conjuction with vibration, we get the manifestations of light, heat, electricity, magnetism, alteration, repulsion, chemical affinity and the reverse, and similar phenomena in the physical in our universe. We witness the dance of masculine and feminine energies in the creation of atoms, through the union of electrons or corpuscles. In hermeticism, the principle of gender allows us to understand and witness the operation of both masculine and feminine energies working together to form all things in existence - physical, mental, and spiritual. Yet, gender on higher planes manifests itself in different ways. “Sex” is just a manifestation of gender on our physical plane aka the plane of organic matter. Gender in hermetics does not refer to the physical sex or a person’s male or female reproductive organs. Gender comes from the Latin root meaning to beget, to procreate, to generate, to create, or to produce. “Gender is in everything everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles Gender manifests on all planes.” - The Kybalion
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