“You are not yet men. And women, you are not yet women.
“You run about and toss about and die, and still you have not found the star of your manhood rise within you, the stars of your womanhood shine out serene between your breasts, women.
“I tell you, for him that wishes it, the star of his manhood shall rise within him, and he shall be proud, and perfect even as the Morning-star is perfect.
“And the star of a woman’s womanhood can rise at last, from between the heavy rim of the earth and the lost grey void of the sky.
“But how? How shall we do it? How shall it be?
“How shall we men become Men of the Morning Star? And the women the Dawn-Star Women?
“Lower your fingers to the caress of the Snake of the earth.
“Lift your wrist for a perch to the far-lying Bird.
“Have the courage of both, the courage of lightning and the earthquake.
“And wisdom of both, the wisdom of the snake and the eagle.