nd here a reflection occurs which is perhaps the most remarkable which all this WitchEvangel suggests. In all other Scriptures of all races, it is the male, Jehovah, Buddha or Brahma, who creates the universe; in Witch Sorcery it is the female who is the primitive principle. Whenever in history there isa period of radical intellectual rebellion against long established conservatism, hierarchy, and the like, there is always an effort to regardWoman as the fully equal, which means the superior sex. Thus in the extraordinary war of conflicting elements, strange schools of sorcery, Neo-Platonism, Cabala, Hermetic Christianity, Gnosticism, Persian Magismand Dualism, with the remains of old Greek and Egyptian theologies in thethird and fourth centuries at Alexandria, and in the House of Light of Cairo in the ninth, the equality of Woman was a prominent doctrine. It was Sophia or Helena, the enfranchised, who was then the true Christ who was to save mankind. When Illumination, in company with magic and mysticism, and a resolveto regenerate society according to extreme free thought, inspired the Templars to the hope that they would master the Church and the world, theequality of Woman derived from the Cairene traditions, again received attention. And it may be observed that during the Middle Ages, and even so late as the intense excitements which inspired the French Huguenots, the Jansenists and the Anabaptists, Woman always came forth more prominently or played a far greater part than she had done in social or political life. This was also the case in the Spiritualism founded by the Fox sisters of Rochester, New York, and it is manifesting itself in many ways in the Fin de Siecle, which is also a nervous chaos according toNordau - Woman being evidently a fish who shows herself most when the waters are troubled. But we should also remember that in the earlier ages the vast majorityof mankind itself, suppressed by the too great or g...
