Woman and Super-Woman; A Trumpet Call to the Women of the Present Generation to Come Out of the Shell and Create the Humanity of the Future, and Throu Paperback - 2010

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. MATRIARCHY THE COMING FORM OF GOVERNMENT. In times past the form of government has been some form of the Patriarchate. By this we do not necessarily mean Patriarchal in the sense of being governed by a Patriarch, but rather government by men, where the women have no voice in the affairs of the government, and where, as a matter of fact, the male population exercises a protectorate over the female population. At the same time we are considering this it will be well for us to bear in mind that before the time of the Patriarchate there was a Matriarchate, and that this change in the form of government was the outgrowth of changes in Creative Evolution and also in the Religion of the World. This being the case, it follows that there is nothing Eternal or Divine in the Patriarchate, but that it is the result of a certain state of Evolution, and hence another aspect of Evolution may develop the Matriarchate again. In view of this truth and of the fact that we are now living in a Cycle which is distinctly Feminine, and therefore more favorable to the development of the Matriarchate than was the time when it was developed before, it becomes evident that ere long we will see the restoration of the Matriarchate. It is to be borne in mind that we are here using the term Matriarchate in the sense of a government of women, in which they to a certain extent exercise a Protectorate over the male population and in which the element of motherhood is the prominent feature, for a Matriarchate would bea Maternal Government, whether in the person of a mother or of a Multitudinal Mother composed of the Feminine Citizenship of the country. In view of all this, it will be most interesting to take note of the relative value of the two forms of government. In this investigation it is esse...