The Law is for All

44 The Law is for All Blind asses! who pretend that women are naturally chaste! The Easterns know better; all the restrictions of the harem, of public opinion, and so on, are based upon the recognition of the fact that woman is only chaste when there is nobody around. She will snatch the babe from its cradle, or drag the dog from its kennel, to prove the old saying: “Natura abhorret a vacuo.”1 For she is the Image of the Soul of Nature, the Great Mother, the Great Whore. 1 [Lat., “nature abhors a vacuum.”] 2 [Ta Chi was the concubine of Chou Hsin, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty (c. 1025 B.C.E.). Her sex drive is credited with its downfall.] 3 [Queen Elizabeth the First, 1533-1603.] 4 [The pen-name of of the French author Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804-1876).] 5 [The pen-name of the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880).] 6 [For examples see E. A. Petroff, Medieval Women’s Visionary Litera­ ture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).] 7 See “Liber CL, De Lege Libellum,” Cap. IV, in Equinox 111(1). [See Works Cited.] It is to be well noted that the Great Women of History have exercised unbounded freedom in Love. Sappho, Semiramis, Mes­ salina, Cleopatra, Ta Chi,1 2 Pasiphae, Clytaemnaestra, Helen of Troy, and in more recent times Joan of Arc (by Shakespeare’s account), Catherine II of Russia, Queen Elizabeth of England,3 George Sand,4 “George Eliot.”5 Against these we can put only Emily Bronte, whose sex-suppression was due to her environ­ ment, and so burst out in the incredible violence of her art, and the regular religious mystics, Saint Catherine, Saint Teresa, and so on, the facts of whose sex-life have been carefully camouflaged in the interests of the slave-gods. But, even on that showing, the sex­ life was intense, for the writings of such women are overloaded with sexual expression passionate and perverted, even to morbid­ ity and to actual hallucination.6 Sex is the main expression of the Nature of a person; great Natures are sexually strong; and the health of any person will depend upon the freedom of that function.7