Cathode

Use in the book

XIII says that a negative pole has been disparaged as weak or passive, then describes electrons emerging from a cathode as an image of active generation. It supplies a proposed Greek derivation and calls the pole the mother of new phenomena.

The example makes the intended philosophical point that receptivity need not be inactivity. Its scientific description is then drawn into the much larger claim that gender works through particles, attraction, gravitation, and all planes of manifestation.

Places to read

1. XIII Gender · Block 6… “erroneous impression regarding the qualities of the so-called "Negative" pole of electrified or magnetized Matter. The terms Positive and Negative are very wrongly applied to this phenomenon by science. The word” …
2. XIII Gender · Block 7… “are that the creative corpuscles or electrons are Feminine (science says "they are composed of negative electricity"-we say they are composed of Feminine energy). A Feminine corpuscle becomes detached from, or” …
3. XIII Gender · Block 8… “of directing a certain inherent energy toward the Feminine principle, and thus starting into activity the creative processes. But the Feminine principle is the one always doing the active creative work-and” …

In this edition

Cathode is retained as a historical technical word. The source's proposed path of generation gloss is reported as its own explanation rather than adopted as a neutral scientific definition.

Reading the argument

Cathode and negative are not universally interchangeable electrode names. In modern electrochemical terminology, the cathode is the electrode at which reduction occurs; its electrical sign depends on the arrangement. That definition also gives no scientific warrant for calling an electrode female.

Related texts

IUPAC defines a cathode by reduction, rather than by a fixed negative sign. This is the technical definition used for the editorial distinction.¹⁷

Cathode

“Cathode” — 5 occurrences in 1 text block: XIII.6.

Negative

“Negative” — 26 occurrences in 10 text blocks: II.16; X.5, 10–11; XI.7, 12; XIII.5–7; XV.7.

Feminine

“Feminine” — 36 occurrences in 18 text blocks: II.24–25; V.12, 14; VIII.31; XIII.1–2, 5–8, 10; XIV.2, 10–12, 14, 18.