which all individualities proceed and in which they are included.

Gender

But the second portion of the Divine name is EVE (the Hebrew Hé corresponds with the English E), which we have found to be the individualised Life-Principle or the Soul, and thus this portion of the Sacred Name not only denotes Multiplicity, but also indicates the fact that the derived life stands towards the Originating Life in the relation of the feminine to the masculine. If this feminine nature of the Soul relatively to the Universal Spirit be steadily kept in mind, it will be found to contain the key not only to many passages of Scripture but also to many facts of Nature both in the inner and outer worlds. The words of Isaiah 54:5, "Thy Maker is thine husband" are not a mere figure of speech, but a statement of the great fundamental law of human personality; and this relative femininity of the Soul, which in this passage is pronounced so unequivocally, will be found on investigation to be assumed as a general principle throughout Scripture.

We have already seen from the story of "the Fall" that Eve represents the soul as distinguished from the body; and just as the Bible opens with this assertion of the feminine nature of the Soul, so it closes with it, and a large portion of the magnificent symbolism of Revelation is occupied in depicting, under the form of two mystical "Women", the generalised