From: a_rod_777@yahoo.com   
      
   Excerpt from the Kybalion on the Nature of Gender in mentality and how it   
   relates to the "I" and "Me" and the use of free will:   
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   The  student  of  Psychic  Phenomena  is  aware  of  the  wonderful    
   phenomena  classified under   the   head   of   Telepathy;   Thought     
   Transference; Mental   Influence;   Suggestion; Hypnotism, etc. Many have   
   sought for an explanation of these    
   varied phases of phenomena under the theories of the various “dual mindâ€�   
   teachers. And in a measure they are right, for there is clearly a   
   manifestation of two distinct phases of mental activity. But if such students   
   will consider these “dual mindsâ   
   €� in the light of the Hermetic Teachings regarding Vibrations and Mental   
   Gender, they will see that the long sought for key is at hand. In  the    
   phenomena  of  Telepathy  it  is  seen  how  the  Vibratory  Energy  of  the    
   Masculine Principle is    
   projected toward the Feminine Principle of another person, and the latter   
   takes the  seed-thought  and  allows  it  to  develop  into  maturity.  In    
   the  same  way  Suggestion  and Hypnotism operates. The Masculine Principle of   
   the person giving the    
   suggestions directs a stream of Vibratory Energy or Will-Power toward the   
   Feminine Principle of the other person, and  the  latter  accepting  it    
   makes  it  its  own  and  acts  and  thinks  accordingly.  An  idea  thus   
   lodged  in  the  mind  of     
   another  person  grows  and  develops,  and  in  time  is  regarded  as  the   
   rightful mental offspring of the individual, whereas it is in reality like the   
   cuckoo egg placed in the  sparrow's  nest,  where  it  destroys  the    
   rightful  offspring  and     
   makes  itself  at  home.  The  normal  method  is  for  the  Masculine  and    
   Feminine  Principles  in  a  person's  mind  to  co-ordinate  and  act    
   harmoniously  in  conjunction  with  each  other.  But,  unfortunately,  the   
   Masculine Principle in the    
   average person is too lazy to act–the display of Will-Power is too   
   slight–and the consequence is that such persons are ruled almost entirely by   
   the minds and wills  of  other  persons,  whom  they  allow  to  do  their    
   thinking  and  willing  for     
   them.  How  few original  thoughts  or  original  actions  are  performed  by    
   the  average  person?  Are  not  the majority of persons mere shadows and   
   echoes of others having stronger wills or minds than themselves?  The    
   trouble  is  that  the     
   average  person  dwells  almost  altogether  in  his  “Meâ€� consciousness,   
   and does not realize that he has such a thing as an “I.â€� He is polarized   
   in his Feminine  Principle  of  Mind,  and  the  Masculine  Principle,  in    
   which  is  lodged  the     
   Will,  is allowed to remain inactive and not employed.   
      
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