Misogyny, from Twitchell's Wicked Mind
Tian Yue
Since the issue of equality of the sexes resonated so tepidly with the
online
eck clergy in my previous post [July, 2001] on mysogyny, I've decided
to offer a few more
thoughts on the subject, this time from the writings of Paul
Twitchell. Is it
due to the influence of Eck Master Twitchell's writings that eckists
on a.r.e.
seemed to respond less than favorably to the discussion about misogyny
and
respect for woman? From 'The Far Country' by Paul Twitchell, in the
chapter,
'The Worship of Kali':
"It is in her nature to give life or destroy it; this is her nature
and sad as
it may be, the more freedom that a woman has the more she wishes to
experiment
with life. She gives birth to babies as a creative process, but this
is only
one of her functions on the earth planet. Observe the nature of woman
in your
casual relations with them - they want to pull everything down to
their level -
this is because woman feels inferior to the male species. She will go
to untold
lengths in order to bring a man down to her level and make herself
equal. This
is the Kali force working within her."
I showed this quote to the beautiful, splendidly equal woman I share
my life
with, who was not very pleased with Twitchell's take on feminism. She
seriously wonders if Twitchell felt inferior to women, causing him to
gravitate to misogynistic philosophies.
Well-adjusted, secure males do not feel threatened by strong women
with equal status. Twitchell goes on to say:
"The menstruations of woman are tied to the forces of nature, and
because of
this cruelty, Kali herself is forced to demand the blood of humans and
animals.
This is to make up for what she loses monthly. She fights the
desperate fight
against nature and not winning, she takes her revenge by demanding
that all
women obey her and seek the equalization of man. She is gaining more
strength
and status from the ages through which she lives, until possibly one
day, Kali
may be the leader of all races - that is woman might become the head
of the
family and leaders of nations.
"This is why you and all spiritual travelors must study the worship of
Kali.
Man is coming into the era now where he is fighting for his position
in the
society of races, because women are trying to take his place. There
have been
many matriarchal societies in the history or the earth and every time
this has
happened, there has been a major regression as the feminine principle
rules.
"The more civilized a nation becomes, the more it is influenced by
women, the
feminine principle. After it reaches the zenith as in the Golden Ages
of
Greece, when Pericles ruled, the feminine principle starts to turn the
tide of
attitudes with many female qualities, like love, charity and
forgiveness. Each
is a feminine quality - and not at all like the qualities of the
SUGMAD [God],
those taught by the great spiritual Lords on the upper planes of The
Far
Country."
So there you have it, folks. Twitchell would be considered to be anti-
feminist
by most avid supporter's of women's rights, by what he has written
here. Yes, I
know there is supposed to be one female master, Kata Daki, within the
fictional
970 eck masters of the Order of the Varaigi, but that doesn't mean
much,
considering she would represent only slightly more that 0.1% of the
total.
Without doubt this will be reinterpreted to somehow turn Twitchell
into the
most supportive advocate of women's rights in history. But the fact
is, he did
write this and it did survive the editing to become published in the
1970
edition of the book.
-Leafeater