IV.-THE DUAL PRINCIPLES
.. There are in life two elements, one transitory and progressive, the other comparatively if not absolutely nonprogressive and eternal."-Gilbert Murray.
THE Hindus gave the name of the "pair of opposites" to the dual aspect of nature which manifests itself as sun and moon, light and darkness, heat and cold, fire and water, man and woman, day and night, etc.
From remotest times Man, the active principle has been symbolised by fire, by whatever is pointed, direct-a spear, shaft, column, dart, arrow, the "Rod of Jesse." And Woman, the feminine or passive principle by water, by everything that is sinuous, concave, curving, receptive-by the earth, by mounds, high places, mountains, by the moon, air, crescent, pearl-by whatever is hollow, oval, cavernous, circular, a receptacle.
