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THE NEW FEMINISM

This article and the one in the previous chapter were published together in a piece called “Les Questions Sociales,” in La Flèche No. 15, February 15, 1933. Naglowska signed them with her real name.

I read with great interest the excellent article of Colonel Alexis Métois^*19 in La Griffe. Indeed, the doctrine of the Third Term of the Trinity (the Divine Mother) may well give feminism a new orientation, in the sense indicated by Colonel Métois, if the movement replaces women’s political ambitions, fighting for a better destiny for humanity, with aims that are more natural and at the same time more spiritual: those of the priesthood.

Women must indeed, and very soon, replace men in the higher direction of public affairs, but not by the parliamentary path whose inherent errors Colonel Métois so correctly points out, but by becoming high priestesses of the Temple of the Third Term, from whence truth and wisdom will at last shine forth.

Meanwhile, let us not reverse the normal order of the accomplishment of the great work. Let us not imagine that Woman, as we know her today, is ready to assume the great role that awaits her, but which demands of her that she should essentially become a woman again, that is to say that she should concede to the evidence and recognize that her understanding shines forth from her sex and not from her brain. In our days the woman, wanting to become the equal of the man, has excessively cultivated her reason. That is the great error of the century and the origin of all the evils from which we suffer. In man, Reason replaces Understanding. It is proper to him, and it serves him suitably. But the woman becomes inferior when she follows this example, which is abnormal for her.

The woman must relearn, before governing, to draw forth the spiritual light from her sex, in celebrating the rites that we are advocating. It is thus that she will become again what she has been at each ascensional epoch of history, that is to say each time that the matriarchy has been reestablished (or established). In becoming a priestess, the woman will again become the mother-educator of the man, who will then no longer lose himself in debauchery. She will fecundate him spiritually, instead of weakening him in all his being, as happens today. And in giving moral and physical health back to the man, she will necessarily orient him toward reasonable and just action. Only thus will humanity be able to be cured of its current sufferings.

Succinctly, the program must be the following: 1) building of the first, provisional chapel of the Third Term of the Trinity; 2) reeducation of some women destined to then become the first high priestesses of the new Temple; 3) re-education at the same time of a group of men with a view to re-establishing rites from preceding cycles in their purity; 4) preparation of the public for these new usages by means of literary and philosophical propaganda.

If that is accepted, three to five years will suffice for obtaining the first palpable results.