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THE CONGRESS OF WOMEN.
offered to the Jews the opportunity of again restoring this ancient nation; not by warlike prowess, but by the simple observance of the spiritual principles of life. He sent His disciples to the lost sheep of the House of Israel, for He well knew that the twelve tribes must all be represented to complete the nation. History tells us how He was rejected, and how the Jews immediately lost what little power remained to them. For the rejection or acceptance of great and universal principles of truth by the people affects the race universally for good or evil during the ages that follow.
After Jesus, appeared another great prophet who had been one of His disciples. He wrote a new revelation, mostly in symbols. Its symbolism concealed its interior meaning from the people, until the time should come when the human mind would be able to perceive the principles involved and the possibility of their application to earthly affairs and institutions. This is the order of evolution. The burden of this prophecy, which culminates in our day, is the sealing of one hundred and forty-four thousand of the people in tribes, under the name of the twelve tribes of Israel; afterward of a multitude which no man can number. John saw that “ Holy City,” the New Jerusalem, coming down from God, out of Heaven, prepared as a bride for her husband, “ having the glory of God, and the light was like unto a stone, most precious, even like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal.” It had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon,” which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. Have we a right to treat this as a beautiful but meaningless fancy? Theologians have sought in vain for its solution, and make no attempt to explain it. But science has entered the domain of religion, and gives a real theology and a clear explanation of these symbols.
The New Jerusalem is called a bride and seems most distinctly feminine, because here woman’s special forces and functions find their first recognition and place in government, and in all the great activities of society. And this place is perceived and stated first through the discoveries of science.
It forever fixes woman’s place and shows her to be an equal factor with man in all the departments of government and of society.
She has already begun to perceive this in a limited way, and is seeking recognition in politics as a necessary expression of her natural right and as a tardy act of justice on the part of men tow'ard her. But she needs to have a more definite idea of her place in politics and in government before she will be able to induce man to grant her this right.
But right here is where Science has achieved her most splendid victory, by giving an exact analysis of the faculties of the human brain and their modes of action in individual, social and governmental life. Thus we find the law of the tribes, which I promise to give to you.
The brain is a wonderful organ. The secret of its action has been slow r of discovery. Strange that this organ and instrument of the mind, which measures all things in the heavens and earth, should have been so tardy of discovering the law r s and process of its own action, or so lately analyzed its own faculties.
“The human brain is constructed upon the mathematical plan of the ellipse,” says the Book of Life. A circle has a single center of force, but an ellipse has two centers of force. A circle with its single center has no internal power or movement of life. An ellipse wfith its tw r o centers has internal power or movement and of life. These two centers are polar to each other. All physiologists agree in saying this: “Polarity involves the concert of opposite tendencies—the attractive and the repulsion; receptive and positive; masculine and feminine.”
“ The brain is the seat of all animal life; every bodily function receives its power to act from the brain,” says one scientist. The brain is the seat also of spiritual life. From and through these centers of spiritual force every faculty of the human mind or spirit receives its power to act. They are not only the centers of organizing power in forming the body, but of all thought. There could be no activity or power to create thought or being but for these polar, responsive and co-operative, masculine