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A recent post on The Fractal Nature of the Gender Binary incites thought on a problem of occultism – namely, the practice of codifying everything in the universe in a dualistic (and hierarchical) way and then gendering that hierarchy and duality.  This is the case in Qabala, in Thelema, in the Rosicrucian/Golden Dawn style practices: and has successfully infiltrated Wicca and other modern paganisms.  The white light of creation at the top of the tree, although above the dualistic split of Chokmah-Binah, is perceived as masculine in contrast to the “final fruit” of “his” effort, the completely passive “princess” of Malkuth, the fertile earth waiting to be plowed.  The first split results in first a masculine sphere, Chokmah, wisdom, who is the reflection of the utmost divine and the very principle of will and energy, and then Binah, the silent mother who understands all and who stands atop the pillar of harsh negativity and darkness.  In Thelema, while we see a lot of surface lip service to the idea of female equality, there are deeply encoded gender divisions; the officially conducted gnostic mass will not allow for any change in the genders of the participants from what is originally written, with the woman-priestess having an obvious lesser, passive, role.  Any attempt to discuss the sexism of Thelema or of Crowley himself, although evidence abounds and is easily found, is met with extreme resistance and hostility by many Thelemites.  Among other systems, it is widely accepted that earth and water are the passive, female elements and fire and air are the active, male elements; much of the unscientific findings of “evolutionary psychology“, which seems to largely exist as a way of excusing modern sexism and racism, is mixed in with religious belief to “prove” that women are naturally nurturing and passive while men are naturally aggressive and sexual in a seamless loop of circular logic.

All life comes from woman.  To call a man an equal participant in the creation of a new life is the most ridiculous thing ever.  A few seconds and a microscopic amount of DNA are his sole contribution – even the woman’s egg is thousands of times larger, and she does all the work of nurturing that new life until she undergoes the dangerous, painful, difficult process of birth.  Thereafter, for reasons both biological and social, she usually is the one who nurtures the new child until it stands on its own two feet.  But the patriarchy’s unhealthy and extremist focus on fathers, men, and sperm have led most people to fully buy into the lie of children having two equally contributing parents. Woman is the creator, the life-giver, AND the nurturer – and this is in no way passive.  Among mammals, for the survival of a species, men are not biologically required to survive after they have spent their sperm succesfully a few times, while women are required to live until they are nearly elderly in order to further the survival of the species.  Between recent scientific advances and the study of “lower” life forms, such as reptiles and insects, it is becoming increasingly apparent that males may not be needed at all.  Contrast this reality with the stubborn insistence by modern, patriarchally-conditioned humans that “nature” is sexually egalitarian in its methods of creation or even favors males and the ludicrousness of their position becomes apparent, as does the practice of enshrining a false duality that declares male and female as equal (or worse, not-so-equal and with females being the “weaker”, “lesser” beings) and opposite.

What would an occult system based on biological reality look like?

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