"We find that male and female are really the positive and negative aspects in nature- that is to say, that male is the positive or electrical quality and the female is the magnetic, receptive or negative quality. When the two fuse, creative action occurs. The word ‘negative’ is here used in its electrical application, and means that which does not act but holds power. It does not represent futility or weakness, but reserve force."
Vera Stanley Adler (The Finding of the Third Eye)