child in much the same way. The popular opinions of girlish behavior and boyish behavior are used, instead of infinite intelligence, as blueprints for little Jim and little Jill to grow up by. The wholeness of each is divided into whichever half the doctor pronounced customary when he looked upon material genitals and away from spiritual truth in order to inform himself of the gender of the new babe. The question of first importance to the parents is their helpless "What is it?" and the moment the genitals are consulted the parents nod happily, satisfied in the assumption that they know now which blueprint to follow. So pink blankets are exchanged for blue, labels are printed for the cigars, and the child is doomed.

What do you suppose would happen if the questioning parents were answered thus: Why, the child is the image and likeness of God. . . it is complete and whole." The parents would probably be overcome with confusion at finding themselves required to bring up the little thing without a worldly blueprint. The challenge would no doubt be too much for most of them, and as soon as the one who answered them in such a manner was out of the room, they would take a peek at the genitals and destroy all the potential magnificence of the moment with some idiotic words like, "It's a boy!" Go on, dear parents, kill out the divinity of your offspring! Wholeness is more of an idea than you can set free in your limited household, isn't it? Wholeness (holiness). ... with all its far reaching implications .will you ever dare even THINK about it? Even the oft-repeated words "male and female created he them" are molded to suit the limits of dwarfed viewpoints until they seem to say "male or female" instead of "male and female." And so what God has joined together, man busies himself putting asunder.

Years pass, and little Jim is warped away from the better half of himself that would imbue his life with such characteristics as gentility, receptivity, generativeness, warmth, and depth of feeling. These virtues, he is told, are not his birthright; they are only for those lesser creatures, the women, and are unbecoming to the proud he-man. In place of gentility, he is trained into a kill-or-be-killed fighter for the wars. In place of receptivity he is given its more popular opposite: suspiciousness. His generativeness is reversed into the delight of the business world: a live wire, aggressive, getall-you-can-out-of-life young man, Warmth must never leave its soft lines upon his face, for only the steel jaw and the cold spark of contempt in his eye will pass as masculine and handsome. As for depth of feeling, let him not dare to show it lest he be dealt that worst insult of all: womanly . . . . effeminate ... sissy!

The more little Jim's individuality (un-divide-ability) is subdued, and the more he is led to surrender the woman half of his wholeness, the more satisfied the parents are with their well done job of giving the world a real he-man. But the individ-ual is lost, and the world will one day have the satisfaction of packing the dirt over him and thinking, with callous lack of understanding, "Little Jim was no better than the rest of us, after all."

And yet, amid these endless repetitions of men who lose the struggle for their soul, sometimes a wonderful thing happens. Sometimes a child is born who has an inner strength that can endure the attempts of the parents and the world to divide it in half and it goes through the "training" process without losing its sense of wholeness, its individuality. It has opposition all along the way, yet it feeds upon this opposition and grows stronger with each challenge met.

Once in awhile along comes a little Jim who simply does not believe the parents who instruct him to kill out his better half. He is quite likely to make some strikingly courageous reply, such as, "For goodneth methy thakes, I'll wave my lavender hankie all I thilly pleathz!" If the parents have forced him to put his answer in such strong language, it serves them right. Could he do it in a less "disturbing" way? Certainly, he could; but if his spiritual courage is put to such a test that only a "disturbing" method will

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