,,sex  ,the ,unknown ,quantity          
,,the ,,spiritual ,,function ,,of ,,sex 
,a ,new and ,startling ,interpretation  
of the ,meaning1 ,scope and             
,function of ,sex as ,seen and          
,interpreted ,from the ,inner or        
,cosmic ,standpoint4 ,a ,work ,that     
,should ,revolutionize            the   
,thought of ,today in its ,relation to  
the ,vital                  ,mystery of 
,sex in ,all its ,aspects4 ,it          
,presents a ,practical ,solution to the 
,sex ,problems of ,everyday ,life4      
,by                                ,,ali
 ,,nomad                   ,,dr4        
,,alexander ,j4 ,mc,i,v,o,r-,,tyndall   
,author of    ,,cosmic ,,consciousness1 
,,or ,,the ,,man-,,god ,,whom ,,we      
,,await1 ,,the ,,dead ,,speak           
,,revelations ,,of ,,the ,,hand1        
,,ghosts1 ,,how ,,thought ,,can ,,kill  
,,personal ,,magnetism1 ,,proofs ,,of   
,,immortality1 ,,etc4                   
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 ,,the ,,child ,,of ,,tomorrow          
,,the ,,man-,,god ,,whom ,,we ,,await   
,,publisher',s ,,foreword   ,,to ,,our  
,,readers3  ,we feel justified in       
claiming this work marks an epoch in the
 advanced thought of human evolution4   
,nothing has ever been written dealing  
with the problem of ,sex which is at    
once so illuminating1 convincing and    
satisfying4 ,to our knowledge this      
particular view of the sex-subject has  
never before been presented1 and1       
perhaps it could not have been1 owing to
 the fact that it is only now in these  

days of higher thought1 that such a view
 could be understood4  ,the author1 ,ali
 ,nomad1 is already well known to       
progressive readers as the writer of    
,cosmic ,consciousness1 or1 ,the        
,man-,god ,whom ,we ,await2 a work that 
has made its author famous by the       
reprint of its many editions4  ,there   
are signs of a new order in the relation
 of the ,sexes already indicated upon   
the horizon of the ,world's             
consciousness as the result of the      
present world-conflict4 ,today people   
are as ignorant of the subject of ,sex  
as they are of ,god4 ,both of these must
 be understood if the race is to        
progress beyond its present stage4      
,otherwise we shall pass into the long  
sleep of oblivion like all civilizations
 in the past leaving future generations 
to grapple with the same world problems4
  ,true or perfect marriage is the most 
important attainment in the life of the 
individual4  ,the author demonstrates   
that perfect marriage is a scientific   

possibility and that legal marriage and 
divorce simply conform to civil laws4   
,he very clearly outlines the reason why
 civilization makes little or no        
progress in dealing with the social evil
 and other sex problems4  ,the          
publishers place this book before an    
intelligent public1 believing1 that more
 real knowledge can be gained by its    
study1 than by any other known method1  
because  ,first4 ,the reader is brought 
face to face with himself1 and nature4  
,second4 ,the reader can demonstrate the
 truth of the propositions set   forth4 
,third4 ,the methods1 rules1 and laws   
have been verified by   intelligent men 
and women who have lived the life4      
,fourth4 ,sex1 ,the ,divine ,principle  
which all human beings should           
understand1 has been presented in plain 
simple terms1 and elucidated1   so that 
the reader cannot fail to understand the
 true path of   moral progress4  ,this  
volume is not a romance1 a fairy tale   
nor a dream intended to entertain or    

amuse1 but a scientific instruction     
which will elevate the individual and   
the race1 develop self respect1 self    
control1 morality and love4 ,if the     
propositions presented by the author are
 correct--let the standards be changed2 
if the propositions are incorrect1 they 
will not disturb the standards of today4
                                        
,,the ,,publishers4                     
,,sex--,,the ,,unknown ,,quantity       
,the ,spiritual ,function of ,sex       
,,contents                              
,,introduction                          
,,chapter ,i    ,,sex ,,universal ,,and 
,,eternal                               
#ai      ,sex the fundamental basis of  
the universe2 sex in organic     life2  
the law of attraction and repulsion in  
animal and plant     life2 sex          
attraction and repulsion in human life2 
how     differentiated and why2 some    
secrets of modern chemistry2 the        
cosmic law of involution and evolution2 
the symbol of the     serpent in a new  

light2 what is the power of the gods    
referred to in ancient mythology2 some  
erroneous ideas in     regard to the sex
 function2 the philosophy of restraint2 
the     inner sex-function and its      
outward expression compared2 the        
senses as avenues of inspiration2 the   
creation of form and     sense-objects2 
what constitutes a perfect and complete 
being8 the theory of counterparts and   
its spiritual     significance2 is      
procreation the highest function of sex2
     what constitutes the fundamental   
law of love8 the various     expressions
 of the love-nature from inorganic to   
organic     life4                       
,,chapter ,,ii    ,,from ,,sex ,,worship
 ,,to ,,sex ,,degradation               
#bi      ,sex the origin of all         
religious ceremonies2 from              
nature-worship to sex-worship2 the      
history of ,ancient forms     and       
ceremonies of worship2 how sex-worship  
has survived the     ages2 how it       
thrives today in modern religion2 early 

stages     of civilization in relation  
to ,sex2 the antiquity of the     symbol
 of the virgin and child2 its occult    
significance in     symbolism2 the      
reality of the bi-une ,god2 some secrets
 of     the ,ancient ,egyptians in      
regard to the function of sex2 the      
esoteric cause of the ,egyptian         
talismanic and symbolical     revival   
today2 the secret or esoteric meaning of
 the     swastika-cross2 why ,aum is    
always typified by a circle2     ancient
 forms of oath-taking and why2 the      
source of     sex-energy spiritual2 how 
and where the idea of                   
blood-atonement and vicarious sacrifice 
originated2 the     beginning of        
sex-degradation4                        
,,chapter ,,iii    ,,present-,,day      
,,conditions3 ,,the ,,cosmic ,,cause    
#ec      ,the consecutive order from    
ancient sex-worship to modern           
civilization2 the real causes of        
race-advancement in the     cosmic      
tidal-wave1 and what it portends2 why   

conditions are     as they are today in 
regard to sex-life2 the psychic forces  
in their relation to sex-life2 some     
fallacies in regard to     ,eugenics2   
why ,greek and ,roman civilization      
failed2 why and     how modern          
civilization need not fail2 why women   
seek to     avoid motherhood2 women of  
two types2 the awake and the     asleep2
 the cosmic office of the ,female       
,principle2 its     relation to         
,creation2 how the superman and woman   
will differ     from the undeveloped    
type2 what is meant by half-gods2 are   
women of today lacking in the           
love-nature2 will the race die     out8 
,if so1 why1 and if not why not8 ,how   
did the ,holy     ,family differ from   
other families8                         
,,chapter ,,iv    ,,the ,,history ,,of  
,,marriage ,,and ,,mating               
#ge      ,the relation of ancient       
marriage customs to religion2 why       
human evolution must necessarily be     
slow2 ancient marriage     customs and  

their spiritual interpretation2 why     
marriage     ceremonies have always     
prevailed2 customs of all races         
compared2 why the institution has a     
permanent place in ,social              
,evolution2 the symbolism of the visible
 world2 why ,science     and ,mysticism 
agree spiritually2 the origin of        
variation     the fundamental cause of  
woman's subjugation2 when men defend    
outraged honor1 is it a primitive or a  
primordial instinct8     the history of 
monogamy2 the monogamic idea and the    
ideal     monogamy2 the history and     
cause of polygamy2 the evolution of     
the old-maid idea and the psychic cause 
of this evolution2     the path of the  
virtuous woman in ancient days2 the     
elevating     power in the dowry system2
 the two great purposes which this      
custom has served4                      
,,chapter ,v    ,,the ,,symbolism ,,of  
,,marriage ,,and ,,of ,,sex-,,union     
#ic      ,why the monogamic ideal of    
marriage is right2 how1 when and        

where1 will marriage be lasting2 the    
basic principle of     sex-union2 when  
the bonds of matrimony are truly holy2  
attraction and cohesion two distinct    
phases of chemical laws2     ideas of a 
modern writer2 how all morality has come
 from the     ideal of marriage2 some   
erroneous ideas of spirituality in      
relation to the sex-function2 when and  
why ,man becomes     immortal2 the      
custom and the hidden meaning in the    
wedding     ring2 the symbolism of      
ancient marriage customs2 the esoteric  
meaning of orange-blossoms2 the veil2   
the ring2 the crown2     why these have 
endured throughout the ages2 the        
interior and     hidden meaning of      
,rosicrusian symbols in respect to the  
sex-function2 women admitted to the     
,order and why2 the     mystery and     
marvel of the symbolic dove2 why it     
plays so     important a part in        
marriage customs and lover's phrases2   
the     symbolism of the ark2 the egg2  
the drinking-cup and other              

persisting accompaniments to marriage   
customs4                                
,,chapter ,,vi    ,,continence2         
,,chastity2 ,,asceticism3 ,,their       
,,spiritual ,,significance   #ajc       
,the ,ancient ,greek and ,roman idea of 
the sex-relation2 why the     asceticism
 of the ,dark ,ages arose2 why the      
,church instituted     celibacy2 why the
 ,church retained the pagan idea of the 
virgin2 the effect this has had upon the
 growth and power of     ,christianity2 
lives of celebrated saints in the light 
of     ,occult wisdom2 why and in what  
way the essentials of     ,christianity 
are like other religious ideals2 who is 
the ,one     ,true and ,only ,god8 the  
interior meaning of the word            
chastity2 the difference between        
chastity and asceticism2     the        
unbroken line connecting ancient ideas  
of sex1 with     modern2 the attitude of
 religious systems toward women2 why    
women are supporters of the churches in 
modern days2 the     mystic bride and   

the mystical meaning2 ,william ,james   
comments on the spiritual ecstacy of    
,st4 ,teresa2 ,swedenborg     on        
,conjugal love2 trances2 ecstacies2 and 
visions of     saints2 the term virgin1 
and its origin2 the evolution of        
sex-love to spiritual love4             
,,chapter ,,vii    ,,soul-,,union3      
,,where ,,will ,,it ,,lead8             
#aai      ,why we hear of affinities and
 soul-mates today more than             
formerly2 the great distinction between 
these two words2 the     psychic forces 
behind woman's invasion of business     
fields2     the basis of the unwritten  
law2 why affinity marriages     fail2   
the hidden reason girls look for a rich 
husband2 the     final outcome2 when and
 how women are ruined2 the mystery      
of the hermaphrodite2 what is the true  
significance of the     term            
androgynous8 mistaken ideas of morality 
in dress and     manners2 what sort of  
beings constitute the kingdom of ,god8  
the secret of secrets of the ,hermetics2

 the wisdom of the     initiates2 the   
spiritual quality in folk-lore2 the time
     when temptation will be no more2   
when naked and unashamed     the race   
will re-enter the lost ,paradise4       
,,chapter ,,viii    ,,the ,,hidden      
,,wisdom ,,revealed                     
#acg      ,science and mysticism the    
same at root2 ,christian mysticism      
versus scientific postulates2 the       
interior meaning in fairy     stories2  
personalities and principles in mystic  
revelation2     the esoteric meaning in 
,mythology2 are there gods and          
mortals8 the ark in religious symbology2
 its interior     meaning2 what were the
 tablets of stone8 the reality of the   
cherubim and the seraphim2 the inner    
meaning of the     symbolical ark of the
 ,covenant2 is spiritual love devoid of 
sex82 what is the symbolical flaming    
sword82 why the ,jews     claimed to be 
,god's chosen people2 what makes for    
immortal     godhood82 the symbolism of 
the life-token stories2 the             

symbolism of the sleeping princess2 a   
theory that solves all     the problems 
of life2 the symbolical rites and       
ceremonies of     secret orders2 the    
secrets of the ,ancient ,alchemists2 the
     ,rosicrucians2 the ,free ,masons2  
the ,hermetics2 their     initiation    
rites and ceremonies explained2 what is 
meant by     the ,holy of ,holies8 by   
the secret chamber2 and the degree      
of mastership2 the sexual significance  
of the symbolism of     the templars2   
the red rose on the cross2 the star and 
the     crescent2 what is the inner     
meaning of the radiant center2     why  
the ,catholic ,church opposed the order 
of ,free-masons2 did     the ,alchemists
 discover the secret of metallic        
transmutation8     what is meant by the 
philosopher's stone2 why it was of      
such a rare purity2 why the early       
,church opposed all     reference to    
sex2 the distinction between discovering
 and     finding2 their spiritual       
meaning2 what was the stone that     was

 raised at ,babylon3 was it a phallic   
symbol8 why the     average ,knight     
,templar fails to attain the powers and 
privileges of esoteric ,free-masonry2   
what is the gate of     life8 the       
,arcana of the ,hermetics and its sexual
     significance2 the symbolism of the 
double-headed eagle2 why     the eagle  
was an ancient religious symbol2 the    
antithesis of     the eagle and the dove
 explained2 the lamb and the goat       
symbolism2 the ,god-ideas of the        
,ancients and their effects on          
modern life2 why riding the goat is the 
usual initiatory     rite and ceremony  
in secret orders2 some secret plates of 
,hermetic orders explained2 what is the 
magic solvent of the     alchemists8 the
 relation of ,christian symbolism to the
     ,alchemical secrets2 the inner     
meaning of the sun and the     moon in  
ancient literature2 transmutation3      
exterior or     interior8 what          
constitutes the abiding glory4          
,,chapter ,,ix    ,,what ,,constitutes  

,,sexual ,,immorality8                  
#aei      ,can there be standards of    
morality in the sex-relation2 if so     
what are they8 is monogamy the ideal sex
 relationship8 is     polygamy a future 
possibility8 why matriarchal polygamy is
     less degrading than patriarchal2   
why polygamy is not the     ideal sex   
relationship2 the fallacy of legal      
marriage as a     test of sexual        
morality2 why we cannot wrong the       
universe2     the one commandment of the
 ,most ,high ,god2 what is it8 our      
modern standards the result of phallic  
worship2 why the ,roman     ,church has 
survived the centuries2 the interior    
meaning in     the ,holy ,virgin idea of
 the ,church2 the vital point in the    
,roman marriage restrictions2 men       
inherently more faithful to     marriage
 vows than women1 and why this is so2   
the bi-sexual     individual the most   
developed2 the counterpartal union and  
its relation to marriage customs2 why   
affinities are so     numerous2 sexual  

infidelity an impossible premise2 what  
is to     become of present-day ethical 
standards of sexual morality82          
historic ideas of sexual immorality and 
their influence upon     modern         
civilization2 modern effects of ancient 
,hebraic     customs2 why suppression of
 prostitution must fail2 why            
prostitution is moral degeneracy2 the   
,oriental versus the     ,occidental    
view of prostitution2 why modern ideas  
of sexual     morality are fallacious   
and untenable2 can there be a           
universal standard of sexual morality8  
why present-day ideas     of marriage   
are degrading2 compulsion in marriage   
and     prostitution compared2 how1 why1
 and when1 the sex-relation     may be  
exalted1 reverenced and deified2        
mistakes of some     ,civic ,leaguers2  
why1 when1 and how1 unfaithfulness in   
marriage is wrong2 the single versus the
 double standard in     sex4            
,,chapter ,x    ,,the ,,pathway ,,of    
,,love                                  

#ahi      ,love the ,great ,reality2    
,love the ,alpha and ,omega of ,life2   
,sex-love the basis of all other loves2 
,sex-love the true     spiritual love2  
what is love of an abstract ,god8 ,love 
the     perfect mathematician2 the moral
 code and ,nature2 why we     cannot    
break the laws of ,god2 why ,love is    
depicted with     bandaged eyes2 ,eros  
and ,cupid explained2 why the ,egyptians
     depicted ,horus with finger on     
lips2 some symbolic caricatures     in  
modern civilization2 how it is true that
 love makes gods     of men2 why        
,religion has remained materialistic2   
,love1 the     only vitalizing power in 
the universe2 the arch-enemy of         
,love2 why ,love never leads to         
disaster2 why ,love is always     pure2 
erroneous ideas of success and failure2 
what is real     degradation8 the       
pathway of love from chemical attraction
 to     spiritual union2 why spiritual  
mates must be the answer to     ,life's 
puzzle2 what constitutes actual         

infidelity8 what is to     be done with 
sex relations that are not spiritual    
unions8 ,are     they immoral8 too much 
made of the marriage ceremony and too   
little of fitness2 is it better to be   
respectably bonded or     spiritually   
mated8 what will happen when we rid     
,society of a     belief in impure love2
 why marriage vows are inadequate2      
puerile2 and futile2 when we find the   
pearl of great price2     why spiritual 
mates cannot be parted2 why bonds and   
vows must     give place to mutual      
agreement2 does spiritual union come    
with love of ,god8 what is the bliss of 
,nirvana8 why the     libertine is a    
pauper in the realm of love2 when we    
imbibe     the nectar of gods2 why the  
holy of ,holies cannot be     defiled2  
when the divine office of sex is        
prostituted2 why     all sex relations  
may not be eternal yet moral2 the       
mistaken     teaching of the church     
regarding sex1 and the result2 inane    
ideas of ,paradise2 an appalling        

prospect of heaven2 perfect             
sex-union the incentive to aspiration2  
,humanity progresses in     spite of    
fear2 prophecy literally true2 the true 
business of     business2 the final     
test2 the ,love that is merging1        
melting2     satisfying and how to      
attain it4                              
,,chapter ,,xi    ,,the ,,law ,,of      
,,transmutation                         
#bji      ,the spiritual cause of all   
physical activity2 two words that       
are of vital import today2 did ,jesus   
lie8 is the kingdom     within an actual
 truth8 the interior qualities and their
     relationship to present day        
affairs2 the fundamental     difference 
between mysticism and ,christianity2 the
 key to the     kingdom2 the interior   
symbolism of wireless telegraphy2 the   
breeder of discord2 the interior meaning
 of certain important     words2 the    
survival of the fittest in its interior 
meaning2     the finer and ever finer   
forces at work2 when the gods arrive    

the half gods go2 sex-force at the      
,center of ,being2 when                 
abnormalities and perversions of sex    
will be impossible2 the     radiant     
center of the bi-une sex-life2 the      
primary function     of sex-force       
vitalization1 not procreation2 the art  
of     transmutation and the key to the 
gate of life2 the esoteric     meaning  
of our second childhood2 the present    
necessity for     physical old-age2 the 
spiritual message in the doctrine of    
sacrifice2 the mystical formula for     
transmutation2 the     mystery of the   
,holy ,grail elucidated2 the only method
 of     attaining godhood4              
,,chapter ,,xii    ,,selling ,,the      
,,thrones ,,of ,,angels                 
#bca      ,the barriers between men and 
the bliss of ,heaven2 the     difference
 between mortals and gods2 the character
 of a     bi-une ,being2 erroneous ideas
 of masculinity and femininity2     the 
change of the present day toward these  
ideas2 ,god not a     hermaphroditic    

,personality1 but a pair2 some laws of  
,god2     the ideal of union versus the 
idea of possession2 the highest         
manifestation of sex-love2 the solar-man
 and the mental man     in sex2         
qualities of sex-force2 is the divine   
man less sexual     than the physical8  
the divine fulcrum of ,sex2 how eternal 
youth and life are possible2 why you can
 not lose in the     game of ,love2 we  
cannot sin against the ,eternal ,god2   
why     and when the eternal equasion is
 perfect2 no mistakes or     flaws in   
the ,cosmic scheme2 how spiritual mates 
may find each     other2 the true way of
 transmutation simple2 why we have      
painted dolls of women2 the hearts of   
men2 the highest     wisdom2 some       
fallacies regarding the law of          
transmutation2     why the inner vision 
does not require a trip to the          
,himalayas2 why brotherhoods cannot     
insure you the way2 all     beauty and  
joy the result of the divinity of ,sex2 
life     mathematically just2 when we   

shall enter the kingdom4                
,,introduction   ,no phase of           
civilization can rise to the highest    
possibilities as long as the average    
mental attitude toward the most vital1  
the most important and the most sacred  
function of our being1 is one of shame1 
sinfulness1 lust and uncleanness4  ,even
 among those who are conscientiously    
trying to establish better social       
conditions1 there is a deplorable lack  
of anything like the proper attitude    
toward the problems of ,sex1 albeit     
there are evidences that our social     
consciousness is alive to the           
seriousness of the sex problem4  ,many  
of our advanced thinkers and scientists 
are giving their attention to the       
subject1 but it is a theme which has    
been so long neglected1 so hedged about 
by false standards of morality2 so      
fettered by the system of tabu1 that a  
rational discussion of ,sex apart from  
materia medica1 or religion1 is         
difficult4  ,moreover1 the physiological

 side of the sex question robs it of all
 the delicacy1 and the intimacy and the 
beauty and romance which should by      
right1 surround the function of         
sex-mating and which does surround a    
union that is pure and perfect4 ,in this
 innate desire to share with the one and
 only possible mate1 the intimate       
secrets of love1 there is nothing of    
shame or apology--sentiments which alas1
 actuate the so-called modest man or    
woman of today4  ,sex matters should1   
indeed1 be held too sacred1 too intimate
 for public discussion1 whereas the     
present-day attitude holds that ,sex is 
too indecent to be spoken of4 ,when the 
subject is forced upon public attention 
as it so frequently is through tragic   
occurrences1 the opinions expressed are 
both petty and puerile4 ,they evade the 
truth and so avoid the issue4 ,they deal
 with effects only1 are satisfied with  
offering suggestions as to ways and     
means of suppressing these effects1     
instead of going to the root of the     

matter and realizing that all the       
tragedies that spring out of ,sex are   
due to wrong teaching and thinking in   
regard to the sex-function4 ,that which 
we reverence1 and hold sacred1 we do not
 profane4 ,until ,sex is established in 
its rightful place1 as the holy and     
divine creative power of this universe1 
we will be shocked and horrified with   
sex-tragedies4  ,it is a pity that the  
physiological and hygienic aspect of    
,sex has to be discussed at all1 but it 
is necessary that all sides of the      
subject must be presented to meet the   
great variety of minds1 but it is our   
contention that if the spiritual quality
 of ,sex were recognized and understood1
 there would be no need for any other   
view1 because if ,sex were recognized as
 the sacred1 and holy and spiritual     
function that it is1 disease and        
sinfulness would disappear as the mist  
before the sun4  ,in the meantime the   
subject must be discussed from all      
points of view4  ,it must be permitted  

to thrive in the light and thus it will 
flower into the perfection of the       
spiritual seed that generated it4  ,in  
the meantime1 the debasement of all     
things connected with sex must be aired1
 discussed1 and weeded out1 until a sane
 and normal and reverential recognition 
of the universality and the eternality  
of ,sex1 is engendered in the minds of  
men and women and growing youths and    
transmitted to the children yet unborn4 
,sex contains all1 says ,walt ,whitman4 
,bodies1 souls1 meanings1 proofs1       
purities1 delicacies1 results1          
promulgations1 songs1 commands1 health1 
pride1 the maternal mystery1 the seminal
 milk2 all hopes1 benefactions1         
bestowals2 all the passions1 loves1     
beauties1 delights of earth2 all the    
governments1 judges1 gods1 followed     
persons of the earth2 these are         
contained in sex as parts of itself and 
justification of itself4  ,without shame
 the man ,i like knows and avows the    
deliciousness of his sex2 without shame 

the woman ,i like knows and avows hers4 
,many well-meaning persons see in the   
words of the good grey poet1 only an    
immodest and brazen shamelessness4 ,but 
these are mental perverts and are to be 
pitied2 they see through a glass darkly 
and everything looks black with decay2  
they are trying to build an eternal     
future upon a foundation of tissue      
paper2 they are seeking to encompass    
immortal life by denying the very       
beginning and source of all life--,sex2 
they are attempting the impossible feat 
of foisting upon the world an ideal of  
,heaven from which they have extracted  
the very essence of ,heaven itself1     
although nothing on earth or from divine
 sources justifies such an idea4        
,possibly our civilization has proceeded
 on the plan of leaving until the last  
the most important thing in an ideal    
community and it may be that we shall do
 the necessary reform work in this      
department all the more thoroughly for  
having so long neglected it4  ,in the   

following chapters the physiological and
 hygienic side of the subject has been  
avoided as there is much sound advice   
already issued pertaining to this phase 
of the sex question1 and it is our      
contention that the world must be       
brought to recognize the spiritual1 and 
sacred function of ,sex1 as the basis of
 reformation or regeneration1 before the
 ,kingdom of ,love shall be established 
upon the earth as it is in celestial    
spaces4                                 
,,the ,,author4                         
,,chapter ,i                            
,,sex ,,universal ,,and ,,eternal   ,the
 fundamental basis of the universe is   
,sex4  ,sex is the fulcrum upon which   
our life-activities turn4 ,it is the    
life of ,man and of planets1 and        
ignorance of the laws of ,sex is the    
cause of death of both4 ,it is the      
conjunction of the forces of attraction 
and repulsion2 the positive and         
negative2 the centripetal and           
centrifugal forces which hold stars and 

planets in their orbits--or rather1 it  
is the two expressions of the one power1
 which is both male and female1 the     
eternal bi-une sex principle which is   
,life4  ,the law of attraction          
everywhere1 from that of the sun and the
 earth1 to that of the iron and the     
magnet1 the affinity of the various     
gases and liquids1 is founded upon ,sex4
 ,cohesion is but another name for      
copulation1 and repulsion is absence of 
the power of contact4 ,the law of       
attraction and cohesion everywhere is   
the law of sex-activity4 ,the law of    
conjugality is the basis of every force 
in nature1 says a scientist4 ,sex       
constitutes the eternal energy from     
which issue all the forms and           
differentiations which we see manifested
 in the visible universe1 and it is     
equally the foundation of the realms    
invisible4  ,sex is the algebracial     
,x--the unknown quantity which defies   
analysis4  ,plato is said to have       
observed that the son of man is written 

all over the visible world in the form  
of an ,x2 and also that the second      
coming of ,christ is rightly symbolized 
by a cross4 ,the cross is but another   
form of the ,x--the eternal bi-une      
sex-principle in action4  ,the ,female  
,principle attracts to a central union2 
draws toward and within itself4 ,the    
home is established and maintained by   
the female element2 the nest is the     
special property of the female bird4    
,thus the ,female ,principle best       
expresses the highest love because the  
object of love is union4 ,hate scatters1
 disintegrates1 destroys4 ,wherever the 
struggle between love and hate is seen1 
there we will find a lack of union4     
,there may be marriage1 but there will  
not be mating4 ,true union must come    
from the ,center of ,life--from the     
spiritual ,reality1 which the physical  
only imperfectly shadows forth4         
,involution is best described as        
feminine1 and wherever we note the      
upward trend of the feminine element in 

,society1 we may know that the earth is 
on its involutionary path2 the end of a 
cycle is at hand1 and social unrest and 
marital upheaval are inevitable1 because
 ,love is in the ascendant and love     
demands union--not merely matrimony4    
,the ,ancients sought to express the    
never-beginning and never-ending law of 
,sex by the symbol of the serpent with  
its tail in its mouth1 forming a circle4
 ,the resemblance of the male sperm to  
the spiral convolutions of the serpent  
in motion1 doubtless gave rise to the   
adoption of the serpent as a symbol of  
sex-worship4 ,the retention and         
transmutation of the sex-force is       
typified by the serpent forming a       
circle4 ,the circle represents the      
attainment of godhood--victory over     
death through regeneration4  ,it has    
been said that the most primal instinct 
is that of hunger1 but without ,sex     
there would not be even the urge toward 
physical sustenance4 ,sex is therefore  
both the urge and the answer to all     

instincts4  ,there is a very general    
idea that ,sex is a physical function   
only4 ,it is almost universally taught  
that when the life of the body ceases1  
sex-life ceases with it4 ,even among    
metaphysicians1 who believe in the      
continuity of life after death1 the     
absurd doctrine is taught that ,sex has 
no place or part in spiritual life1 that
 there is no marriage nor giving in     
marriage after death4  ,this idea has   
been a powerful deterrent in keeping the
 race from seeking the higher areas of  
spiritual consciousness4 ,lack of mere  
physical vitality has erroneously been  
estimated as evidence of spirituality4  
,chastity has unfortunately been        
counterfeited by mere physical          
restraint1 resulting in a type of human 
being whom the healthy1 normal person   
instinctively refuses to emulate1       
deferring as long as possible the       
attainment of that which has been       
presented to the mind as spirituality4  
,let it be understood at the outset of  

this presentation of the problem of ,sex
 that we state emphatically1 that ,sex  
is an eternal verity4 ,its spiritual    
function is not less but infinitely more
 than that which we glimpse on the      
physical plane of life-expression4  ,far
 from outgrowing what we know as human  
love1 we add thereunto a million fold1  
refining1 purifying and intensifying the
 sex instinct until it bears a          
relationship to the average instance of 
sex-expression1 analogous to that which 
the single-celled organism bears to     
intellectual man4 ,if we will keep in   
mind the fact that ,life in all its     
degrees of manifestation is like the    
ascending notes of the musical scale1 we
 will be able to get a more             
comprehensive idea of the spiritual     
function of the sex-urge4 ,we will      
realize that we can not mark a too      
distinctive separation between the      
various phases of life-manifestation4   
,we imagine that the physical life is   
widely at variance with the mental1 the 

psychical1 or the spiritual1 when as a  
matter of fact each blends into the     
other1 when we rightly understand their 
place and purpose1 as harmoniously as   
the notes of the musical scale blend    
into the grand compositions of the      
,masters4  ,as above so below1 and as   
below so above1 is a truism which we may
 safely take as our first maxim4        
,whatever we note as a fundamental      
principle of this external life which we
 cognize with our five senses 7senses   
which merge so into the psychical that  
we know not always where the line       
demarks7 has a permanent place in the   
,cosmos4 ,therefore we must conclude    
that a fact so universal as that of sex1
 and sex-attraction1 must be grounded in
 something more stable1 more permanent  
and enduring than the mere creation of  
physical forms4  ,protoplasm1 the only  
living substance1 is found everywhere in
 the visible world and its universality 
is symbolical of the invisible worlds as
 well4 ,transparent1 colorless1 it      

contains within itself the mystery of   
reproduction4 ,it forms the basis of the
 vegetable and the animal kingdoms4 ,it 
is seen in bone and muscle and fibrous  
tissue1 and protoplasm may be said to   
contain within its cells the principles 
of both sexes4 ,it is not sexless1 but  
bi-sexual2 not neuter but               
masculine-feminine4 ,every form of life 
has sex1 and in some rare instances both
 sexes are present in one form4 ,this   
does not mean that there is another     
phase of sex unclassified1 but rather it
 proves the union in one ,whole ,entity 
of the two distinct principles1 and by  
this fact of the twain made one we may  
know that ,sex is the very crux of the  
cosmic law2 that not only does it       
survive the mere physical expression of 
the law1 but that the object of the     
sex-function is the spiritual union of  
the two principles1 a male and a female 
entity1 forming one complete and perfect
 ,being--the true representative of the 
bi-une ,being whom we know as ,god4     

,absolute and perfect union is possible 
only at the center1 the crux1 of ,being4
 ,this truth is represented by the      
algebraical ,x1 the symbol of spiritual 
sex-union4 ,therefore sex relationships 
which do not have for their crux        
spiritual as well as temperamental      
affinity1 are not final1 or eternal1    
however beautiful they may be2 and there
 are many sex-relationships which are   
pure and sacred even though they do not 
fulfil this highest of all              
relationships1 that of spiritual        
counterparts4  ,let us consider for a   
moment the universality of ,sex as we   
see it expressed in all the variety of  
forms and throughout all the species1   
and in so doing we may trace the ever   
upward trend of the law of              
sex-attraction1 and discover1 if we have
 the eyes to see1 the evident plan and  
purpose of the cosmic law as it tends   
toward completement and perfection in   
the type of the man-god whom the world  
has long looked for and who we believe  

is here4  ,if we look at the expression 
of ,sex from the viewpoint of the       
physical only1 instead of basing our    
observations from the interior1 the     
spiritual1 outward to the physical1 we  
might conclude that the function of sex 
was designed for no other purpose than  
that of procreation1 since care of the  
young increases with the upward trend of
 life-manifestation4  ,beginning at the 
lower forms of life1 such for example as
 the fish1 we find as a general thing an
 indifference to the fate of the eggs   
deposited by the female1 which is in    
keeping with the prolific and almost    
unconscious generation of these tiny    
evidences of the law of ,sex4 ,a fish   
laying more than a million eggs in a    
season is naturally rather careless     
about what becomes of them4 ,apparently 
no higher sentiment actuates this form  
of life than an unconscious and merely  
instinctive urge to perpetuate the      
species--the lowest expression of       
,love--and yet the germ of ,love1 the   

,creator and ,preserver is there1 and a 
well-defined law of attraction and      
repulsion is evident from the fact that 
as an almost general thing the male will
 not fertilize eggs other than those of 
his own species4 ,but even in these low 
forms1 we see the evidence of that      
higher expression of ,love which        
presages the god-like quality of        
self-sacrifice4 ,some species of fish1  
notably the stickle-back and the bass1  
make nests and mother their young4  ,in 
those forms of life which are supposed  
to be insensate1 we find the universal  
law of sex-attraction and repulsion4    
,the pollen from an oak tree1 for       
example1 may be blown about by the wind 
and may light upon a plant which is far 
removed in species from its own2 but if 
such be the case1 no fertilization takes
 place4 ,the fundamental law of ,love is
 to attract to itself its own2 that     
which belongs to it by right of ,cosmic 
law and order and justice4  ,all the    
inharmony of our social life comes from 

the attempt to appropriate and possess  
that which1 in the final analysis1 in   
the ,absolute1 is not ours4 ,when the   
majority of ,mankind shall have mastered
 this lesson1 the human race will enter 
upon its true spiritual life4 ,the      
psychic mind with which man alone of all
 earth's creatures is supposed to be    
endowed will have conquered the         
instinctive mind1 and the higher        
expression of love which would protect  
and preserve1 and leave free1 will have 
gained supremacy over selfishness and   
the desire for possession4  ,in         
bird-life we find this higher type of   
love almost universal4 ,parental love1  
that exquisite and refined flower from  
the seed of sex-attraction1             
characterizes the bird and we may       
readily agree that ,paradise would be   
incomplete without birds and flowers as 
well as babies4  ,considering the birds 
as an infinitely finer type of          
sex-expression than that offered by any 
other of the forms of life below man1 we

 note with satisfaction the             
all-important point1 namely1 that the   
sex-urge is more diffused and lasting1  
and of a finer quality than that of the 
mammals4  ,the bird woos its mate with  
the beauty of its plumage and the       
harmonious notes of its love-call4 ,its 
desire finds so many esthetic ways of   
expressing itself2 in tender pleadings2 
in cooing promises2 in continuous       
evidences of care and protection4 ,nor  
does its intense love1 vital as it is1  
exhaust itself in concentrated          
expression1 but it softens and ripens   
into something that so closely resembles
 our ideals of spiritual love1 that we  
are not surprised to find the emblem of 
the dove employed throughout the history
 of the world1 as the spiritual symbol  
of pure and holy love4 ,well1 indeed1   
may human beings learn from the birds   
the lesson of the higher type of        
sex-mating1 which finds fruition in     
their mutual love for and care of their 
progeny4 ,nor does the love-life of     

birds cease with sex-expression4 ,it    
permeates all their intercourse4  ,the  
trait which distinguishes the spiritual 
man from the animal man is analogous to 
that of the birds2 namely1 that of      
finding a deep and lasting joy in the   
presence of the loved one2 in           
sympathizing with each other's ideals2  
listening with devoted attention to each
 other's words2 contacting1 as it were1 
each other's inner nature1 rather than  
obeying the merely animal urge of       
procreation4 ,and above all1 in the     
common aim of altruistic thoughtfulness 
for the little lives which their love   
has brought forth4  ,thus nature serves 
the cosmic law1 which aims to raise the 
sex-instinct from the incomplete and    
unsatisfying plane of physical contact1 
to that of spiritual union--a wide gulf 
seemingly2 but who would not strive to  
bridge it1 did he but realize what      
spiritual union with the ,beloved ,one  
means8                                  
,,chapter ,,ii                          

,,sex ,,worship ,,and ,,sex             
,,degradation   ,every form of religious
 worship1 from pre-historic time down to
 and inclusive of the present century1  
and among all races1 savage and         
civilized1 has been founded upon        
,sex--the inevitable1 the inviolable1   
the unescapable1 and the unfathomable   
mystery of ,creation4  ,nor should this 
fact be distasteful to the most refined4
 ,an intelligent review of the many     
evidences that prove this truth will not
 shock the sensibilities of the most    
devout worshipper of an unknown and     
unseen ,god4 ,what can be more beautiful
 and more holy1 more worthy of our      
highest reverence and adoration1 than   
the mystery of birth1 whether that birth
 be the growth of a flower from a tiny  
seed planted in the womb of ,mother     
,earth1 or the birth of a tiny human    
life from the seed ,love sows in the    
womb of the human mother8 ,the only     
shocking thing about the matter is that 
there are persons who can be shocked at 

contemplation of this wonderful and     
beautiful mystery4 ,it is shocking and  
deplorable that so many are still so far
 away from spiritual consciousness1 that
 the beauty and the purity of the       
miracle of ,sex is unrecognized by them4
  ,with all due respect to the highest  
types of religious creeds which survive 
today1 we are bound to concede that the 
very first form of worship which        
prevailed upon this earth was the purest
 as it was the simplest4 ,truth is      
simple4 ,deception introduces us into a 
maze of complexities4 ,nature worship   
prevailed we know not how many centuries
 previous to the dawn of historic       
records4 ,all allegorical literature    
makes constant allusion to ,the ,golden 
,age1 evidently referring to a time     
before that which has come down to us in
 sacred literature1 as ,the ,fall of    
,man4 ,the first conception of a supreme
 power1 something higher and more       
perfect than ,man himself1 originated in
 the mystery of ,sex2 not only in the   

sex-function as exercised by ,man1 but  
also in the evidences of sex seen in    
plants and animals4  ,it became evident 
to the earliest races that the human    
being was after all only a progenitor4  
,somewhere there must be a ,first       
,cause4 ,the vital spark which gave to  
the seed its power to bring forth was   
seen to be beyond and above the control 
of physical man1 and the natural and    
inevitable inference was drawn that     
there was some power greater than that  
of human beings--a power manifesting    
itself in the act of procreation4 ,at   
this early stage in ,man's efforts to   
know ,god1 the ,female ,principle was   
deified1 because out of the womb of the 
woman issued the little life4 ,thus the 
symbol of the virgin with the child     
became the symbol of worship2 the word  
virgin then having a somewhat different 
meaning from that which we give it      
today1 although we may trace the analogy
 in our use of the term virgin soil1    
signifying fecundity4 ,the virgin and   

child then1 popularly supposed by those 
whose prejudices prevail over their     
desire for ,truth1 to have originated   
with the birth of ,jesus of ,nazareth1  
antedates history1 as an object of      
worship4  ,let us here again emphasize  
the fact that the very persistence of   
this symbol as a pronounced part of our 
,twentieth ,century traditions1 and     
reverence1 offers proof of the fact that
 whatever is true is also enduring4     
,truth is eternal and defies extinction4
 ,love1 although defiled and scorned1   
will lift ,mankind out of ,hell4  ,the  
symbol of the mother with the child the 
very earliest of all symbolic worship is
 also the truest and most consistent    
with the ideals of spiritualized ,man   
when we realize its higher significance4
 ,at first1 for the obvious reason that 
woman was the recipient and the nurse of
 the seed1 woman was regarded as a      
higher type than man2 she alone was     
supposed to possess the creative energy4
 ,this was ultimately reversed and ,man 

was thought to be the sole custodian of 
the reproductive power4  ,thus the      
age-long warfare between the sexes      
began--a warfare which1 if it had any   
foundation in ,reality1 must have       
resulted long since in race-extinction4 
,but despite this degrading warfare men 
and women have continued to attract each
 other in varying degrees of love1 until
 now the future offers a golden promise 
of union4 ,as long as primitive man kept
 to nature worship1 deifying earth as   
the mother who brought forth the grains 
and fruits for her childrens'           
sustenance1 religious practices were    
devoid of sacrifice and strife4 ,the    
advent of springtime when the earth     
awakened from her long sleep and the    
period of gestation began when the seeds
 were planted1 or when from ,nature's   
own laws they were reproduced without   
the aid of man1 was the occasion of     
thanksgiving and rejoicing with general 
merry-making and general good-will4     
,again1 in harvest time there was       

feasting and rejoicing and music and    
dancing2 and we have no reason to       
believe that this very natural method of
 showing their gratitude and their      
happiness was accompanied by any        
suggestion of sacrifice or propitiation4
  ,there is the best of evidence to     
support the claim that all the early    
,deities were female and in all         
,mythology the earth is adored as the   
,divine ,mother4 ,the earliest ,venus1  
worshipped as the goddess of ,universal 
,womanhood1 was represented with a beard
 signifying her androgynous character4  
,venus worshipped as the soul of the    
world was said to be the parent of all  
things1 the primary progeny of ,time1   
the most exalted of all the ,deities4   
,neith1 ,minerva1 ,athena1 ,ceres1      
,cybele1 all worshipped as the first of 
all the ,deities1 were represented as   
female1 and to this day we refer to the 
qualities of wisdom1 light1 truth1 and  
virtue as feminine4  ,even the sun is   
said to have been at one time worshipped

 as feminine1 as were all deities2 but  
later1 when it was shown that the sun   
apparently fertilized the fecund earth1 
the gender was changed1 and in          
succeeding ages1 when the male principle
 had become dominant as a deific symbol1
 the earth was said to be but the nurse 
which cradled and cared for the generic 
power resident in the male4 ,thus woman 
from her lofty height of the one and    
only deity gradually sank to the level  
of the nurse maid1 permitted to care for
 man's offspring4  ,while the ,female   
,principle of ,sex was worshipped as the
 giver of life1 the heads of families   
were female and descent was traced from 
the mother only4 ,the male parent was   
scarcely more than an intruder and the  
necessity to please the entire family   
and1 above all1 the mother-in-law1 the  
generic head of the family has left its 
mark upon the masculine mind1 even unto 
this far-off day1 when by virtue of this
 ordeal of primitive man1 an idea seems 
to exist1 that a mother-in-law is to be 

both feared and dreaded1 if not         
propitiated4 ,when we contemplate the   
persistence of those traits of human    
nature that have prevailed among all    
races and throughout all ages1 we are   
easily persuaded that time is a         
delusion1 and that ,eternity is ,now4   
,as it was yesterday it is today and    
will be tomorrow in all that is really  
fundamental4  ,from the refined         
simplicity of nature worship there      
gradually evolved a phase of worship1   
which in the beginning had for its basic
 principle an exalted ideal of the      
purpose and the powers of the female    
sex-function2 but this ideal sunk to the
 level of debauchery and                
sex-degradation1 in which the symbol of 
the female sex-organ of generation was  
worshipped1 literally1 although not     
reverently2 and yet from the fact that  
it is only upon the temples and in the  
groves dedicated to worship that are    
found the carvings of the generative    
organs of either and sometimes of both  

sexes1 it is evident that the most      
exalted motives first actuated the      
worshippers4  ,the sex organs1          
representing the mystery of creative    
life1 or the ,deity1 would naturally be 
held in reverence by nature-children1   
and it must be conceded that this       
attitude of mind toward the wonderful   
miracle of creative energy is worthy of 
our emulation4 ,as we look back over the
 pages of history1 we note the tendency 
of human nature to fall far short of    
ideals2 we mistake the letter for the   
spirit2 we get lost in the trap of the  
senses1 and we miss the higher and more 
exalted planes of our ideals4  ,from    
yoni worship 7worship of the female     
organ of generation71 with all the      
privileges and perquisites which such   
honor bestowed upon woman1 there came   
the inevitable revolt1 which comes in   
course of time1 from all tyranny and    
special privilege1 whether it be        
individual1 national1 racial1 sexual1 or
 supernatural4 ,thus there was          

established a new religion1 and this    
time it was the male organ which was    
deified as the symbol of eternal life1  
of creative energy4 ,in many instances  
both symbols were represented1 but for  
the most part the same subtle struggle  
for supremacy1 the remnants of which we 
note today among the different religious
 creeds and sects1 waged1 and waxed     
stronger1 with time and opposition4     
,which was the more worthy of           
deification--the yoni1 or the phallus8  
,woman1 or man8  ,the ,ionians1 seeking 
religious freedom from the persecutions 
of the phallic worshippers in ,india    
persisted in their adherence to yoni    
worship1 and from them dates the        
,eleusirian mysteries1 which were       
celebrated in ,athens down to a         
comparatively late date4 ,the           
,eleusirian festivals represented the   
survival of the purest ideals of nature 
worship1 before the warfare between the 
yoni and the phallic worshippers had    
brought both ideals into degradation4   

,there is a point in this festival1     
which the ,greeks called ,thesmophoria  
and which is derived from the more      
ancient festival of ,ceres 7the goddess 
of ,life and ,law71 which we are anxious
 to have noted here1 because it marks a 
golden thread which runs throughout the 
entire fabric of the sex-problem4 ,this 
point is the fact1 that the rites and   
ceremonies of this festival were        
performed by virgins distinguished for  
their purity of life4 ,very rarely were 
men admitted to the inner secrets of the
 ,eleusirians4  ,another important point
 is that this ceremony was performed in 
honor of the androgynous character of   
the goddess1 as it was declared that the
 power to bring forth a child without   
the co-operation of the male belonged   
exclusively to the exalted or perfected 
woman1 which is to say the goddess4     
,another translation and interpretation 
of this ceremony claims that it was     
prophecied in these festivals1 that a   
time would come in the history of the   

world when a woman would so conceive and
 bring forth a child and that when that 
time should come the question as to     
which sex was supreme would be forever  
settled and that purity and peace would 
reign upon earth4  ,this part of the    
record may easily have been either an   
interpolation to sustain the claim of   
the miraculous birth of ,jesus1 or it   
may have been simply the defiant fling  
of the vanquished to the victor1 because
 phallic worship was in the ascendant4  
,it is1 however1 recorded1 that not an  
instance can be cited in which the honor
 of initiation into the ,eleusirian     
mysteries was conferred upon a bad man2 
nor of any man violating the secrets of 
the inner temples of the ,eleusirians4  
,this gives rise to the hope that the   
ideal of this spiritually exalted sect1 
in the midst of almost universal        
degeneracy1 was not so much that of     
female supremacy1 as of purity2 that    
their ideal included the pure and       
perfect union of male and female--the   

only ideal that will1 or can1 redeem the
 world to a life of peace and love4     
,the festivals of ,carthage were said to
 be similar to those of ,eleusis4 ,for a
 period of several days during the time 
set apart for the festivities1 public   
feasts were prepared in honor of the    
deific nature of ,man1 which1 it was    
pointed out1 was his prerogative only by
 virtue of inward purity and strict     
adherence to high ideals of truth and   
honor4  ,crowning all the religious     
observances of the ,ancients1 whether   
expressed in the legends of the         
sun-myths or of star and serpent        
worship1 we find the universally        
recognized fact that only those         
qualities of mind and soul can be       
expected to endure1 or reach immortal   
godhood1 which are of an exalted        
character4 ,which is to say what the    
present day orthodox creed says1 that   
immortality belongs only to those who   
are pure in heart4  ,from the           
,eleusirian festivals is derived our    

custom of taking holy communion1 the    
symbol of the ,lord's supper2 albeit the
 substitution of the male principle in  
the ,christian ceremony attests the fact
 that the phallic symbol ultimately     
supplanted the yoni1 as a deific symbol4
 ,phallic worship reached its height    
during ,hebrew and ,assyrian supremacy1 
and was perpetuated by ,greek and ,roman
 materialism4 ,superstition is nothing  
more than ,truth degenerated by men from
 a spiritual to a material application4 
,that which is held in awe and reverence
 by any race2 that which is embodied in 
the traditions of every tribe on the    
globe2 that which persists throughout   
all times will be found to have a       
fundamental basis of truth1 no matter   
how obscured it may be by the ignorance 
with which it is so frequently          
associated4  ,the sacredness of ,sex1 as
 exemplifying the ,supreme ,creative    
,energy1 underlies all the traditional  
ideals of man1 from the fetishes of the 
,central ,african savage to the         

cathedral spires which rise above the   
din of our modern commercial            
civilization4 ,the prejudiced and the   
superficial observer of so-called       
heathen rites and ceremonies records    
only the superstitions1 and sees only   
the evidences of depravity and savagery4
 ,he overlooks the fact that the spirit 
of the idea conveyed may have been the  
highest ideal of an early race which has
 sunk1 as have all races during certain 
periods of the world's evolution into   
the depths of a materialism1 from which 
all races are today emerging4  ,all     
mystic truths are expressed in          
symbolism4 ,it has been said that these 
truths are veiled2 this is true only    
because the observer has not yet learned
 to speak the language4 ,the universal  
language is symbolism4 ,in the early    
,egyptian1 the ,indian1 and the ,hebrew 
religions1 the fundamental idea was the 
two generating principles 7or we might  
say the two aspects of the ,one         
principle7 of generation4 ,the two in   

spiritual union represented the         
,infinite--the ,deity4 ,the ,hebrew word
 ,elohim is plural1 and means male and  
female united1 forming the ,one ,perfect
 and ,complete ,being4 ,this union is   
the ,holy of ,holies of the ancient     
mystics and alchemists4 ,we see its     
reflection and its persistence today in 
the ,catholic service of the ,mass1     
where the priest raises the ,eucharist  
as the ,holy of ,holies in which is     
generated the ,christ-man1 and before   
whom all human devotees bow the head    
that they may not look upon the         
perfection and beauty of its pure       
radiance4 ,neither is the priest        
supposed to touch the chalice with      
uncovered hands4 ,he prepares himself by
 fasting and prayer before he mounts the
 altar upon which this ,holy of ,holies 
is hidden from view4  ,the pattern of   
the ,eucharist with its golden circle   
and radiations is easily recognizable by
 any one who is familiar with the       
symbols of yoni worship4 ,nor should    

this fact be distasteful to any one1    
although it is either concealed1 or     
flatly denied by the ,church1 since it  
is only through the elevation of the    
sex-function that the ,christ-man can be
 born into the physical realms4 ,the    
reason that this truth is either        
concealed or denied by the ,church is   
due to the influence of ,greek and      
,roman civilization1 which subjugated   
woman to the control of man4 ,this      
debasement of woman reached its         
culmination under ,roman rule and is    
unquestionably the psychic cause of the 
fall of the ,greek and ,roman empires4  
,if we will but take home to ourselves  
the important lesson that neither sex is
 fundamentally1 or even relatively1     
superior1 but only different2 that no   
race is permanently in advance of       
another1 but that each little group and 
class of humans has its particular      
contribution to the sum of knowledge1 we
 will have done much toward freeing the 
mind from the shackles of               

ignorance--that darkness which obscures 
our inner vision4 ,let this truth       
penetrate the egotism of so-called      
civilized races4 ,let it sink into the  
minds of the men and women of this      
century3 we are of service to the world 
in proportion as we are different and   
not identical4 ,in the direct ratio of  
our individuality is our contribution to
 the work of the cosmic law1 which is   
seeking to lift the planet earth out of 
its undeveloped state into celestial    
light4  ,the symbol of the ,eucharist1  
occupying as it does an important place 
in a religious system which is otherwise
 essentially masculine1 is one of the   
many evidences of the persistence of    
,truth4 ,for approximately four thousand
 years1 phallic worship has predominated
 over the earlier ideal1 which was      
embodied in the virgin of the spheres1  
the emblem of the ,female ,principle as 
eternal motherhood2 and in the sacred   
character of androgynous plants and     
flowers1 which were characterized as    

feminine1 such1 for example1 as the     
lily1 the lotus1 and the fleur de lis4  
,these flowers are still regarded as    
more or less sacred1 and they are called
 feminine1 although really androgynous4 
,the lotus1 long held sacred because of 
its androgynous character1 has been     
regarded as typical of the ,one ,perfect
 ,one1 because it is supposed that the  
lotus reproduces itself without the male
 pollen4 ,but close examination of the  
flower will show that the little        
seed-vessel in the center of the flower 
is shaped like a pine cone1 in which are
 tiny cells too small to let out the    
seeds as occurs in most plant and seed  
life2 these tiny seeds having no outlet1
 shoot when ripe into new plants1 the   
bulb of the plant being the matrix or   
womb of the new life4 ,thus it is       
evident1 that although the two sexes are
 not as pronounced in the lotus as in   
the lily1 yet the bulb and the cone are 
both present in the lotus1 making the   
plant bi-sexual1 and not feminine alone4

  ,our modern ,easter festival1 in which
 the lily is recognized as the          
representative par excellence of the    
renewal of abundant life and energy1 the
 sacred flower1 is a tribute to the     
,feminine ,principle in the ,deity1 as  
the lily like the lotus is called       
feminine1 although in reality bi-sexual4
  ,the lily and the ,eucharist have     
survived the centuries in which the male
 principle has dominated1 as the one    
true and only ,god--the giver of life1  
the energizing power of ,creation--and  
the lily and the ,eucharist are both    
representative of the ,female principle4
  ,historians mark the beginning of the 
worship of the ,one ,true ,god1 defined 
philosophically as the ,monistic        
,god-idea1 from the building of the     
tower of ,babel1 and we may here note in
 passing that in the earliest references
 to this tower1 there is no allusion to 
anything suggestive of confusion of     
tongues4 ,the name unquestionably came  
from babil meaning the gate of ,god4    

,thus only is its meaning obvious1 and  
consistent with the worship of the      
lingam and phallus which obtained at    
that time4 ,it is also evident that the 
phallic worshippers borrowed the simile 
of the gate of ,god from the worshippers
 of the yoni1 who based their claim to  
truth upon the indisputable fact1 that  
out of the womb comes the life of plant1
 and animal1 and man4  ,the architecture
 of1 and the inscriptions on1 the tower 
of ,babel show conclusively that it was 
a monument to the victory of the phallic
 worshippers over the yoni1 proving that
 the one true and only ,god was male4   
,from that time also ,god has been      
alluded to as ,he1 although in the      
,oriental countries1 and particularly   
among the ,hindus1 we find repeated     
allusions to the ,deity as ,the ,divine 
,mother1 and all the higher qualities   
are spoken of as feminine4 ,it is       
because of this fact also1 that we note 
the spread of ,oriental religions and   
philosophies in this day of ,woman's    

uprising4 ,the ,orientals retained the  
divinity of the female principle in     
theory1 but not in fact4  ,sex-worship  
is contemptuously alluded to in modern  
literature as strange and erotic ideas1 
or words equally condemnatory4 ,but this
 is an absurd stand1 since nothing could
 be more natural than that the mystery  
of ,creative ,life should arouse our    
interest and our wonder2 and it         
certainly ought to enlist our highest   
reverence4 ,it becomes erotic only when 
men fail to worship in spirit and in    
truth1 and when the letter of the ideal 
survives1 and the spirit is ignored4 ,it
 becomes not only erotic but destructive
 when it involves a fight for supremacy 
between the male and the female4 ,when  
the spirit of union shall prevail1 which
 it must in a perfected world1 no higher
 form of religious aspiration can be    
imagined than that in which the miracle 
of birth is reverenced and idealized4   
,then1 and not until then1 will the     
family be what it should be1 and ,love1 

the one and only true ,god1 be          
worshipped4  ,the trinity in unity has  
been a widespread and persistent part of
 all religions1 from which fact we may  
logically infer that this ideal has a   
permanent place in the sum of human     
knowledge4 ,truth is often obscured1 but
 it can never be hidden from the eyes   
that are seeking the light4 ,the        
rightful interpretation of those ancient
 and obscured truths1 erroneously       
classified as myths and superstitions1  
will reveal a universal truth1 and will 
also show their relation to modern      
concepts4  ,but while we note a vague   
recognition of the female element in all
 our modern religious systems1 the      
general acceptance of the ,god-idea as  
monistic and the gender of this monistic
 ,god as masculine betrays the          
domination of phallicism over yoni      
worship and also over that of the two   
principles in conjunction--the bi-une   
,deity4 ,the tree is universally        
accepted as an emblem of life-energy4   

,the upright shape of the tree2 the sap 
which rises at certain periods from     
invisible sources2 and the fact that the
 germinal power of the seeds of the     
fruits and trees is not destroyed by    
eating2 all combined to make the tree   
symbolical of eternal life4 ,the tree is
 either male or female1 except in       
certain instances where it is1 like the 
lotus1 androgynous1 such for example as 
the ash1 which is the sacred tree of    
,scandinavia4 ,wherever a plant or a    
tree is found to be bi-sexual1 it has   
been regarded as sacred4 ,the same idea 
is found throughout all myths1 and all  
religious symbolism1 namely3 the        
attainment of god-hood is reached when  
both sexes are united in one ,being4    
,the fuller meaning of this symbolical  
idea will be considered in a subsequent 
chapter2 but for the present we are     
concerned with the history of           
sex-degradation from the pure ideal of  
nature worship to that of a monistic    
,god whose gender is masculine4 ,the    

pine tree1 held sacred in many countries
 as a symbol of generation1 and from    
which our own ,christmas-tree is        
descended1 is distinctively a male      
emblem1 and its perennial green typifies
 the hope of ,man that he too may       
manifest1 in some form of life1 the     
never-failing virility of the pine4 ,the
 ,latin name for the pine is pinus4     
,thus from nature worship to phallic    
worship was but a step1 but that step   
led to others4 ,the pine1 from the fact 
of its erect form2 its spiral           
convolutions2 its sap2 its fruit2 its   
renewal of activity2 its root and veins2
 became a universally accepted emblem of
 the life-energy in man and in animals1 
and the gradual substitution of the male
 principle alone1 for the androgynous   
idea as a symbol of ,deity contributed  
to the idea of the inferiority of woman1
 until she finally became the slave and 
the plaything of man4 ,the virgin of the
 spheres1 from her exalted mission as   
the ,eternal ,mother of the race1 became

 at best but a secondary personality1   
and finally was refused any part in the 
symbol of the ,holy ,trinity4  ,instead 
of father1 mother and child1 the ,holy  
,trinity became ,father1 ,son and--,holy
 ,ghost4  ,the early ,romans must have  
been devoid of a sense of humor4 ,but   
what of our modern ,christian creeds1   
and their idea of the ,holy ,trinity    
composed of three male beings8  ,it is  
in ,christian ,science alone of all the 
modern creeds that the female principle 
is given a place co-equal with the male4
 ,christian ,science addresses the      
,deity as ,father-,mother-,god1 and     
their reverence for the woman who       
established the creed1 as well as the   
,ionian type of architecture employed in
 their church edifices1 are evidences of
 the re-establishment of the female     
principle in the ,god-idea4 ,christian  
,science is one of the most important   
instruments of the cosmic law in the    
present-day dethronement of the male    
principle as the only true ,god4  ,so   

permeated with this male ,god-idea is   
every branch of our modern thought2 so  
enwrapped with the glamour of worship1  
that we hardly notice the one-sidedness 
of the ideal4 ,tradition is a powerful  
hypnotist4  ,many members of the        
,masonic fraternity fail utterly to     
understand the symbolical language of   
their mosques and the phallic and yoni  
emblems which constitute their          
decorations4 ,notable among these       
emblems are the pomegranate2 the lotus2 
the circle2 the crescent2 the swastika4 
,the cone-shaped towers1 that rise above
 the mosques1 with their protruding     
heads1 vein-tipped2 the central symbol  
identical with the mound of ,venus2     
denote the preservation of the ,egyptian
 ideal1 which venerated both sexes as   
co-equal4 ,it is easy to realize why the
 ,jews were driven out of ,egypt when we
 remember that they refused to worship  
the ,egyptian ideal of ,god as          
bi-sexual1 but persisted in rearing the 
phallic symbol alone1 denying the female

 principle a place in the ,god-head4    
,it is also significant that side by    
side with the present-day ,feminist     
,movement we find the revival of        
,egyptian fashions2 ,egyptian           
architecture2 ,egyptian philosophies and
 religions4 ,even ,cubist art1 which in 
itself could make no possible appeal to 
recognition on its artistic merits1 has 
been received with much publicity1 if   
not with acclaim4 ,cubist art is a      
lineal descendant of ,egyptian art1 and 
so closely resembles its far-off        
ancestry as to seem to have bridged the 
centuries and connected us as if by     
telephone with the days of ancient      
civilization4 ,our drama and our popular
 songs have responded to the ,egyptian  
thought-wave4 ,talismanic jewelry1 so   
essentially ,egyptian1 is in vogue1 and 
on every sign board advertising         
breakfast foods1 tobacco and what not   
7so essentially an ,american custom7 we 
find the modernized use of ,egyptian    
symbols1 notably the swastika4  ,the    

swastika1 the earliest form of the      
cross1 found in every country and in    
every out-of-the-way corner of the      
globe1 is fundamentally1 originally and 
pre-eminently a bi-une sex symbol1 and  
although volumes have in recent years   
been written on its history and meaning1
 the whole story may be summed up by    
examining its form and by realizing its 
antiquity and its universality4  ,the   
two sex principles1 joined in the center
 of the four arms or legs1 of the cross1
 accomplish that which is said 7and     
truthfully if taken on the physical     
plane only7 to be impossible of         
accomplishment--they square the circle4 
,a circle is emblematical of            
completeness4 ,aum1 the ,absolute1 the  
,omniscient1 is always typified by a    
circle4 ,to square the circle means     
esoterically to have reached godhood1   
and this can be accomplished only by the
 male and female united in spirit4 ,the 
swastika is essentially a bi-une sex    
symbol although it has been sometimes   

called male and sometimes female1       
according to its shape1 which varies    
with the various meanings ascribed to   
it4 ,primitive man was not prolific in  
language1 and one symbol expressed many 
ideas according to its varied form and  
position4  ,the original form of oath   
was to swear by the sacred power of the 
generative organs1 and we may readily   
conclude that this power was conceded to
 be vested in the male only1 from the   
fact that we still testify when under   
oath and although the ,bible has been   
substituted for the generative organs1  
as an outward expression of our         
recognition of the ,creative ,principle1
 we note that the ,bible is made up of  
testaments1 which stand for its         
sacredness4  ,evidently it was only     
after the advent of the male ,god that  
oaths and vows and pledges were         
necessary4 ,previous to that time1 a    
man's word was reliable4 ,it was        
inevitable that an ideal of the ,supreme
 ,creative power of the universe so     

one-sided1 and so lacking in the        
essential of union1 must degenerate into
 mere licentiousness and animalism2 and 
it is estimated that about six hundred  
years ,b4,c4 the level of debauchery and
 vileness reigned4 ,so-called religious 
rites and ceremonies were nothing more  
than orgies of sex-degradation4  ,the   
ideal of godhood as nothing higher than 
masculine virility and power evidenced  
by the number of his progeny1 naturally 
reduced woman to the lowest depths of   
slavery1 since she was nothing more than
 a receptacle for man's seed4 ,of course
 one wife was insufficient and a man's  
claim to divinity was best expressed by 
profligacy--an ideal which is rife even 
today among those1 whose consciousness  
is bounded by nothing higher than the   
conception of the animal nature of man4 
,whence came this wonderful thing       
manifested as generative power8 ,what   
did it feed upon8 ,these were natural   
queries4 ,in seeking the answer the idea
 originated that in the blood was to be 

found the secret of the generative      
fluid4 ,this idea arose from the        
evidence that as old age conquered man's
 physical strength1 his blood became    
weakened and the supply insufficient4   
,this was accompanied by a loss of      
generative activity1 and thus1 they     
argued1 the power that made man god-like
 7the creative energy7 left him4 ,this  
was indeed a calamity greater than we in
 this generation realize1 although we   
know that old age with consequent       
cessation of physical vigor is the dread
 enemy of the undeveloped man4 ,even our
 supposedly advanced thinkers have the  
absurd idea that sexual-energy dies with
 the physical body4 ,the few who have   
risen to the place where they realize   
the truths made plain by                
soul-consciousness1 know that old age is
 but physical2 that it is the vacation  
time between the functions of physical  
activity and that of the soul-life4 ,old
 age is the wise provision of the       
,cosmic ,law which compels those who    

will not do so of their own volition and
 wisdom1 to transmute the life-energy   
into higher channels4 ,if the race knew 
enough to consciously transmute the     
creative sex-energy into an interior    
function1 there would come to pass the  
time prophecied by ,st4 ,paul when ,man 
shall consciously lay down his body and 
take it up again4  ,there are           
spiritually advanced men and women today
 who can consciously leave the physical 
body as they do the house in which they 
live1 while they visit distant places1  
annihilating space4 ,to these the body  
is no more than a garment4 ,thus death  
is overcome and the knowledge attained  
that we are souls using a physical body2
 that death does not in itself confer   
upon any one either immortality or youth
 or love1 but that these may be acquired
 by acts of virtue and unselfish        
service--not as payment or reward for   
unwilling work1 but as the result of    
unfailing law1 which gives what we      
demand4  ,what we demand we naturally   

work for4 ,if we serve ,love1 we get the
 coin in which ,love pays as naturally  
as we get the checks signed by ,jones   
when we work for ,jones1 and by ,smith  
when we work for ,smith4  ,death merely 
discloses our interior nature4 ,if we   
have failed to transmute the life-energy
 into a love that is deeper than mere   
animal instinct2 if we have missed the  
beautiful and the pure and the lofty    
idealism of ,love1 we will find         
ourselves as age-worn after death as    
before the change4 ,but again we may    
note a wise provision of the ,cosmic    
,law1 for it is almost impossible for a 
human being to live through many years  
of life without having loved some person
 or some thing with at least a spark of 
unselfish love4 ,fortunately almost     
every one is better interiorly than he  
appears to our limited vision4 ,the most
 depraved of mortals has his moments of 
the higher vision4  ,from this deduction
 of inquiring primitive man1 namely that
 the blood was the source of procreative

 virility1 it is easy to trace the      
logical result in the terrible practise 
of blood-sacrifice which reigned so long
 and which1 carried from one nation to  
another1 and engrafted into the         
,god-idea1 has come down to us in the   
story of the sacrificial lamb1 at length
 personified in ,jesus1 the ,son of     
,god1 as a final act of propitiation4   
,the blood-atonement idea is naturally  
repulsive to civilized beings1 and were 
it not that nearly every one who adheres
 to the old form of orthodox            
,christianity swallows theologic        
interpretation of the ,bible as he would
 swallow a dose of castor-oil1 by       
closing his eyes and holding his nose1  
the teaching as thus interpreted would  
be stopped by police authority4 ,and yet
 we may readily trace the gradual       
descent of the ,god-idea of the ancients
 until it reached the culmination in the
 idea of sacrifice of a son of ,god     
,himself4  ,in their blind but eager    
groping for some means of escape from   

death1 even as we of this day and       
generation are groping1 the early races 
observed that birth was accompanied by  
blood2 that as age came on and the blood
 became thin1 and in the case of the    
female ceased to flow at certain        
reproductive periods1 the power of      
generation ceased4 ,what more natural to
 primitive man than that he should      
conceive the idea of sending back to    
this unknown and invisible power behind 
the veil of the sky the blood1 which he 
must need to supply his creative        
energies8 ,and when the sacrifice of    
animals was not sufficient for this     
,god1 they concluded that it must be    
because he required the blood of man4   
,and so at first the old and the sick   
and the deformed were sacrificed2 but as
 it was seen that this did not answer   
the need1 they began to sacrifice the   
young1 and naturally the slaves were    
substituted for the aged1 as affording  
more blood2 and when this failed the    
idea came1 that the sacrifice must be   

that of one who was innocent of the     
world1 and so they selected a girl or a 
young man1 who had been secluded and    
trained to the thought of sacrifice1 and
 in whom the sex-function had been      
rigorously suppressed4  ,and still the  
old grew bloodless and death claimed his
 toll1 and so they conceived the idea of
 voluntary blood-sacrifice1 and we read 
of repeated occasions in which fanatical
 ones offered themselves freely on the  
sacrificial altars as atonement for the 
sins of their people4 ,at length this   
contagion of sacrifice consummated in   
the idea that the only ,son of ,god     
,himself became a voluntary offering to 
pay the final debt of transgression and 
set men free from death1 that they might
 have eternal life1 which to them meant 
life in the physical body4  ,it is not  
at all possible that ,jesus had any such
 idea of his mission4 ,he was far too   
illumined for that1 even judging from   
the meager accounts which we have of his
 life and message4 ,but when the story  

of his mission on earth came to be told 
and retold the idea of blood-sacrifice  
as payment for the privilege of physical
 virility1 so implanted in the          
race-thought from centuries of such     
belief1 could not die immediately1 and  
thus it reaches us today adown the      
centuries and is re-told 7though we     
trust not believed7 in most of the      
,christian churches in this civilized   
century4  ,and yet there is an esoteric 
truth underlying this universal idea of 
sacrifice1 and when we come to this in a
 subsequent chapter1 we will better     
understand how and why it has persisted 
throughout the centuries4               
,,chapter ,,iii                         
,,present-,,day ,,conditions3 ,,the     
,,cosmic ,,cause   ,from the study of   
ancient sex-worship to our twentieth    
century systems of religion2 our        
scientific discoveries2 our intellectual
 standards of philosophy and social     
ethics2 and above all1 perhaps1 our     
marvelous commercial order1 connecting1 

as it does1 the entire globe1 seems a   
far cry2 but it is only another link in 
a chain and fits into the past as       
accurately and as inevitably as the     
morning follows the night4  ,there is an
 erroneous idea current that public     
institutions1 such as law-courts1       
religious creeds1 educational systems1  
reform movements1 et cetera1 are causes 
of race-advancement4 ,as a matter of    
fact they are not causes but results4   
,they do not determine progress2 they   
reflect it4  ,causes start from the     
,center and radiate outward4 ,we may    
realize this more readily if we will    
remember that if we throw a pebble into 
a pool of water1 it starts innumerable  
little waves which traveling outward1   
reach a point some distance from the    
central source1 and if we were to see   
the outermost wavelet only1 we might    
imagine that the disturbance begins and 
ends far from the place where the pebble
 was thrown4  ,this illustration        
explains the difference between the     

materialistic and the metaphysical      
points of view4 ,the former notes the   
result1 and the latter the cause of     
existing conditions4 ,the mystical      
viewpoint takes into account the fact   
that there is a cosmic law which acts   
like a tidal-wave4 ,materialists call   
the action of this law ,evolution1      
assuming that its impetus comes from our
 physical activities4 ,it is1 in fact1  
from the ,center or spiritual source of 
life that all power1 all evolution1     
emanates4 ,the spiritual is the         
intensity of power2 the physical is the 
attenuated4  ,the term1 spiritual realms
 suggests to the average mind a vaporous
 space where nothing happens2 yet it    
requires only a little intelligent      
reflection to establish the fact that1  
as ,paracelsus said long ago1 ,the mind 
is the workshop in which all visible    
life is formed4 ,our mental operations  
are silently1 invisibly1 carried on1 and
 yet we see the effect of these silent  
plans and ideas in our noisy methods of 

locomotion2 our architecture2 our       
commerce--in all the avenues of our     
active civilization4  ,we wish to       
emphasize the point that every so-called
 advancement2 every discovery2 every    
improvement in moral ideals as well as  
in mechanics1 and in those things that  
add to our physical comfort1 comes from 
the center of ,life4  ,the external but 
reflects the action of the ,cosmic ,law 
which uncovers the vast areas of        
consciousness and frees the human soul  
from the hypnotisms1 and the limitations
 of the animal-mind4  ,animal force is  
still strong in the world to-day1 but it
 is not as strong as it appears to be1  
because much of the seeming indifference
 and cold-heartedness of the people1    
taken en masse1 is due to the hurried1  
feverish and insistent demands of our   
external life4  ,underneath the surface1
 in the realm of the sub-conscious      
activities1 there is developing the     
spirit of unity2 of sympathy2 and a     
consciousness of our innate             

relationship4 ,this realization comes to
 the surface in times of great stress   
and peril4  ,the whole trend of modern  
life symbolizes or reflects the ideal of
 unity1 albeit the tooth and claw and   
growl of the animal in ,man may be seen 
and felt and heard in the vain effort to
 postpone the inevitable dethronement of
 the animal force1 which would dominate 
the weaker and appropriate for the      
personal self1 the creation of brain and
 hand1 much as the house-dog1 satiated  
with over-feeding1 buries the bone he   
cannot eat lest some hungry brother-dog 
shall get it4 ,nevertheless1 despite the
 animal greed that still shows in our   
modern life1 there is plenty of evidence
 that we are on the upward spiral that  
leads to unity--the effect of love4     
,the superficial observer1 dominated by 
that instinct of fear which seems to be 
so ingrained in our animal nature that  
we are all slaves to it in some form or 
degree1 sees in the present-day         
conditions a menace to what he believes 

to be the moral life of the race1 and   
particularly as these conditions apply  
to the modern woman4  ,he sees women    
coming out of the seclusion of their    
rightful sphere and meeting men on terms
 of equality4 ,he sees what he terms    
immodest dress2 defiance of traditional 
ideas of etiquette and conduct2 he notes
 what appears to be a disregard for the 
faith of our fathers2 and1 above all1 a 
distaste for that special function of   
woman--child-bearing4 ,the superficial  
observer1 both male and female1 feels   
great alarm4  ,but let us not be        
dismayed4 ,present day conditions1      
particularly as they relate to the      
female principle of ,creation1 but      
reflect the inevitable reaction from a  
one-sided course4 ,the pendulum swings  
back again and ultimately we will strike
 a balance2 from domination to unity2   
from struggle to harmony4 ,even         
,american commercial life admits the    
value of a vacation time4  ,present day 
conditions1 then1 are not chaotic or    

lacking in a well-defined purpose1 even 
though they are unsettled4 ,anything    
that disturbs the seeming placidity of  
the surface always strikes alarm to the 
undeveloped mind4 ,particularly in those
 phases of our modern life which        
directly affect women1 or in which we   
may say1 the ,female ,principle is      
especially concerned1 we note a         
determined and united demand for        
freedom4  ,woman's demand for political 
equality is but a shadowgraph as it were
 of the real demand which is the demand 
of the ,divine ,feminine throughout all 
manifested life1 for recognition of     
equality1 in the plan of creation4 ,it  
is a symbol of the ideal of unity which 
finds expression in the commercial world
 in trusts and labor unions2 in the let 
us get together plea of the various     
advocates of reform2 of all those       
enterprises which are seen to most      
directly affect the entire human family4
  ,that there are women who are blind to
 this fundamental idea of their demand  

for political equality is true2 and it  
is also true that there are perhaps as  
many men as there are women who         
recognize the need of woman's political 
and social equality1 but this only      
proves the fact which we have already   
emphasized1 namely that it is not women 
as personalities1 but the ,female       
,principle throughout the universe that 
is at the root of the modern ,feminist  
,movement4 ,the male principle is not   
confined to the form of man1 neither is 
the female principle always expressed in
 the form of woman4 ,many men exemplify 
more of the maternal instinct than do   
certain women2 neither must it be       
assumed that this type of man is        
effeminate2 or that the woman of        
,amazonian physique is more masculine in
 thought and habit than is the little   
frou-frou specimen of womankind who     
looks appealingly into the eyes of her  
male escort1 beseeching protection from 
the rude stares which she has           
premeditatedly invited4 ,qualities are  

sexless and universal4 ,it is only in   
their specific combinations that they   
adequately represent the masculine or   
the feminine gender4  ,blessed are they 
who have learned the art of             
discrimination4  ,broadly speaking1     
women are behaving in a manner which    
upsets all precedent and promises       
ultimate emancipation from restraint4   
,but is it not possible that women no   
longer need restraint if they ever      
needed it8 ,is it not possible that the 
world has grown up1 and that both men   
and women may safely be allowed the     
freedom of self-government1 with all    
possible mutual aid in the work of      
establishing an upright1 free1 and      
trustworthy science of right living8    
,that which is always in the future is  
never ours and if we are ever going to  
be free and happy and well-conditioned  
there is no reason why we should not    
make it soon4  ,woman's demand for      
political equality is sometimes used as 
an excuse to lessen her dignity and her 

place in society4 ,people who do this   
are of the same type as those before    
whom ,sex cannot be discussed           
intelligently because they do not       
realize the sacredness of ,sex4 ,they   
are a remnant of the ages which have    
passed and which have left their mark1  
in the idea of a half-sexed ,god1 the   
,he1 the spouseless ,father who brought 
forth the visible universe apparently   
without co-operation with the ,female   
,principle4 ,this type of person prates 
much about the dangers of race-suicide1 
meaning thereby the increasing tendency 
to childlessness and not as should be   
taken into account the death rate among 
children who are born of diseased and   
unfit parents and brought into existence
 without the necessary conditions of    
sanitation1 food and care4  ,our        
national ,eugenic societies are hampered
 by false ideas of what constitutes     
morality1 being bound to uphold the     
tradition that the child that is born of
 married parents1 no matter how diseased

 in body and deficient in mind1 is      
better-born than is the offspring of    
unmarried parents1 even though the      
latter may be a model of physical health
 and mental efficiency4 ,eugenics will  
remain limited in scope until such time 
as the entire world adopts in spirit and
 in truth the recent action of the      
,european governments1 and recognizes   
the legitimacy of all children however  
born4  ,and although the action of the  
,european governments was born of       
nothing more humane than a war          
expediency in order that more soldiers  
might be bred1 yet the effect of such a 
course will benefit the human race4 ,it 
has at least set a precedent1 and will  
in time be extended to all children born
 out of wedlock and will wipe out       
forever the cruel and unjust stigma that
 has attached to the child of unmarried 
parents4 ,thus it will be seen that even
 war has its good results1 and although 
it seems a terrible price to pay for    
even so badly a needed reform as this1  

,humanity has always paid dearly for its
 willful blindness4 ,it certainly should
 be evident to any sane mind that every 
child that is born into this world has a
 moral and a legal right to be here4    
,whatever may be said for or against    
parents1 it is wicked stupidity to brand
 an innocent child with the epithet     
illegitimate4 ,the lowest animal has a  
right to be born4 ,many a beautiful and 
innocent child is denied that right4    
,if it has taken one of the most bloody 
wars in history to establish the right  
of birth1 even so the struggle will not 
have been in vain1 because this right1  
once established in the hearts of all   
,humanity1 will forever do away with    
warfare4 ,no doubt this assertion will  
sound far-fetched to many1 but the      
future will see the vindication of this 
belief4  ,birth is actually the most    
important function in life4 ,if it is   
immoral to be born1 no matter what the  
conditions of such birth1 what possible 
chance have we to live morally8 ,we     

cannot discriminate in dealing with the 
great fundamentals of life4  ,this      
truism1 applies to all cosmic action4   
,nature's laws are inviolable4 ,nature  
says that the child of the king and the 
child of the beggar shall be born in the
 self-same way4 ,the child of the       
unmarried mother and the child of the   
married mother come into the world in   
accordance with the self-same law of    
reproduction4 ,nature may not be always 
polite1 but she is always truthful4  ,as
 long as there is any question of the   
legitimacy of any birth1 ,humanity as a 
whole cannot be otherwise than inferior1
 because ,humanity cannot rise higher   
than the ideal of the average4 ,moreover
 we are so interdependent that the whole
 must be affected by the conditions of a
 part4  ,birth is right1 or it is wrong4
 ,it cannot be right under some         
circumstances and wrong under others4   
,the primal laws do not take into       
account our ideas of respectability4    
,the question then arises3 ,are we to   

consider it moral and legitimate for    
women to have children before they have 
been married8  ,the obvious answer to   
this question is1 that the mother must  
be permitted to decide this for herself1
 since no one has a right to do it for  
her4 ,our right of interference in so   
intimate a matter must begin only at the
 point where her conduct injures us4 ,if
 an unmarried woman chooses to give     
birth to a child1 neither you nor ,i1   
nor ,society is injured1 not even if the
 child becomes a charge of the state1   
because the cost of maintaining a child 
is far less than that of maintaining    
insane asylums and penitentiaries--both 
of which result from our mistaken       
attitude toward the sex-relation4  ,if  
we are permitted to answer the question 
of morality and legitimacy by           
generalities1 we will say that any child
 that comes into the world desired by   
the mother is born in accordance with   
the highest possible concept of the     
moral law4 ,whenever ,society1 ,church  

and ,governments shall unite to wipe out
 the stain upon mother and child because
 of failure to comply with our marriage 
laws1 a better race of men and women    
will people the earth1 because the      
race-thought will be one of welcome with
 all that word implies2 whereas at the  
present time1 under our undeveloped     
ideas of morality1 doubt1 suspicion1 and
 condemnation prevail1 with all that    
these words imply4  ,when all mothers   
are honored all women will be willing to
 be mothers4  ,as long as dishonor      
attaches to any instance of motherhood1 
it is inevitable that motherhood will be
 avoided1 even to the point of          
child-murder4 ,not that this practice is
 confined to the women who would be     
dishonored by becoming mothers4 ,it     
obtains rather more perhaps among those 
women whose wealth and ease would seem  
to make motherhood desirable4 ,judging  
from surface conditions only1 one might 
not see the connection4 ,but that is the
 trouble with our modern life4 ,we do   

not look deeply enough to deal          
intelligently with causes4 ,we are      
always seeking to check effects4  ,the  
average human being is little more than 
a phonographic record of the dominant   
race-thought1 and race-thought ideas are
 contagious4  ,let us honor and provide 
for all mothers and all children and we 
will find that the birthrate will       
increase among the rich and respectable1
 where now we note a determined desire  
to shirk the responsibilities of        
parenthood4  ,we need not fear that the 
number of unmarried mothers will be     
alarming4 ,the first aid to true        
morality is honesty4 ,monogamy is the   
ideal relationship between men and      
women4 ,but enforced relationships are  
neither ideal nor true4 ,ideal          
conditions can be established only      
between free human beings4 ,compulsion  
is death4 ,selection and choice mean    
life and health4  ,the man or the woman 
who is free1 and particularly free from 
self-condemnation1 is instinctively     

monogamous4 ,life in all its phases     
tends upward toward conscious and       
specific selection4 ,conscious selection
 must include love1 and we may safely   
trust love4 ,love is inseparable from   
truth and fidelity4 ,without love1 all  
the efforts of all the ,eugenic         
,societies on earth will accomplish     
little1 however well-meant their        
efforts4 ,eugenists confine their work  
to the physical aspect of the subject   
and as a matter of expediency deal with 
the effects of marriage and             
race-propagation in their relation to   
disease and degeneracy1 ignoring the    
esoteric phase of the subject4 ,thus no 
real good can come of the ,eugenic      
movement per se4 ,its contribution to   
,progress consists in its value as an   
announcer of a higher ideal1 rather than
 a higher order4 ,the higher order can  
come only by getting back to primal     
laws4  ,the fact should not be          
overlooked that the ancient ,greeks were
 competent ,eugenists4 ,they effected   

wonderful results1 too1 in two important
 points of the well-balanced individual4
 ,they worked for beauty and intellect1 
both desirable adjuncts to a perfect    
race1 but both also as cold as the      
marble statues which ,greece gave to the
 world4 ,greek and ,roman civilization  
toppled and fell because it was a       
civilization without foundation2 it was 
built from the outside2 it was like an  
old ruined house encased in a thin wall 
of beautiful marble1 and set upon a high
 hill4 ,it deceives the eye from a      
distance1 but freezes the blood and     
congeals the soul when intimately known4
  ,greek and ,roman civilization1 based 
upon physical ,eugenics1 was unbalanced 
and could not endure1 because it was a  
civilization of force2 of dominance     
rather than of unity4 ,there was no     
ideal of sex-equality1 and therefore    
,love was regarded as the least         
important requisite in ,eugenic         
marriage4 ,it should be obvious that    
without the element of love1 as the     

basis of selection1 human reproduction  
must take on the same status as         
stock-breeding1 which may for a time    
give the finest physical specimens of   
animal life1 but which1 if persisted in1
 finally results in decadence4  ,we have
 an example of the tendency to decadence
 from in-breeding of those types of     
humans which have the best advantages at
 least of education and refinement1     
whether or not those advantages are     
embraced4 ,we refer to ,royalty4 ,we    
need only mention the illustrious       
example of ,cleopatra to prove this4    
,cleopatra was the offspring of a       
marriage between a brother and sister--a
 custom which prevailed among ancient   
rulers to insure none but royal blood4  
,cleopatra we may well believe was both 
beautiful and intellectual1 but it is   
also certain that she was abnormally    
lacking in conscience1 in tenderness1 in
 love4 ,her passions were those of the  
animal1 and not of the soul4  ,in modern
 life1 ,spain and ,austria both furnish 

discouraging data to exponents of select
 breeding4 ,in fact it is thoroughly    
established that degeneracy is not the  
result of imperfect physical conditions 
only4 ,the greatest villians are not    
infrequently both handsome and          
intellectual4  ,bulwer ,lytton well     
illustrates this fact in his character  
of ,margrave in ,a ,strange ,story4     
,margrave was a perfect and beautiful   
physical specimen4 ,he possessed rare   
intelligence1 but he had no soul and was
 utterly incapable of the finer         
sensibilities1 which we instinctively   
classify as spiritual attributes4       
,returning to a consideration of what   
has been termed the unusual behavior of 
the feminine half of mankind1 we find   
that the chief end and aim of many women
 centers upon the problem of how to     
avoid maternity1 quite upsetting        
traditional ideas regarding woman's     
rightful sphere1 which began and ended  
in rearing a large family4  ,women in   
all walks of life1 rich and poor1 wise  

and frivolous1 selfish and              
unselfish--are refusing to bear         
children4 ,the superficial observer     
rails against this1 because he sees only
 the effect4 ,he sees women living in   
fashionable hotels1 if they are rich    
enough to afford it2 if they are poor   
they establish a cheap imitation of this
 phase of semi-communal life in what is 
paradoxically known as light            
housekeeping1 usually represented by one
 small dark room where the nearest      
delicatessen serves as a convenience1   
the public laundry minimizes domestic   
labor1 and the department store supplies
 ready made1 the family clothing1 from  
undergarments to top coats4 ,under these
 conditions1 whether of fashionable     
hotel suites or dark light housekeeping1
 it is plain that children are not      
welcome4  ,even those of the class found
 between these extremes are discouraged 
from rearing children1 since city life  
tends more and more to apartments as a  
substitute for the home2 and no well    

regulated apartment house is open to    
children4 ,the average observer1 as we  
say1 notes these conditions1 but fails  
to realize that there must be a cosmic  
cause for a condition so wide-spread4   
,there must be something back of it1 as 
we say of many things which we note in  
our every day life4 ,looked at from the 
surface only1 these conditions seem     
deplorable and ultimately race-suicidal4
 ,but the cosmic law is always upward in
 tendency4 ,we may safely trust it1 if  
we will4  ,this does not mean that the  
conscious motive which actuates the     
average woman1 who is able physically   
and financially to bear children and yet
 will not1 is a high and noble one4 ,the
 law deals with the planet1 not directly
 with the individual2 it acts upon the  
developed and the undeveloped with equal
 impartiality1 even as the rain falls   
upon the just and the unjust alike4     
,spiritually conscious persons realize  
the necessity for a change in human     
ethics4 ,the world is in need of a more 

exalted ideal2 an ideal in which        
equality shall be more nearly           
represented and they give themselves    
consciously to the task of assisting in 
this regenerating work4  ,the difference
 is not in the law itself1 but in our   
comprehension of it4 ,the curriculum of 
the school of life is unchanged4 ,we    
graduate from it or we return for       
another term1 according as we have      
mastered the studies4 ,applying this    
truth to the conditions just stated1 and
 we see that this rebellion on the part 
of woman against child birth has two    
aspects4 ,one is from apparent          
selfishness and lack of the             
temperamental quality1 which has        
erroneously been attributed to women as 
an exclusive possession1 namely1 the    
maternal instinct4  ,the other aspect of
 woman's disinclination to maternity is 
due to a restless1 vague but            
nevertheless determined desire on the   
part of the ,feminine ,principle1 to    
wait until conditions are more equal4   

,sometimes we find women1 who are       
perfectly awake and consciously aware of
 the cause of their brazen sterility1 as
 a virile writer has caustically termed 
it2 but more often the conscious mental 
attitude is lacking and they merely obey
 blindly the dominant race-mind4  ,women
 know much more in the depths of their  
souls than they can put into words4 ,a  
part of this knowledge is the fact that 
child-bearing is not a function limited 
to the physical1 the mortal plane of    
life4 ,every woman who is anywhere near 
balanced in the struggle for            
completeness knows intuitively1 that    
even though she may never beget mortal  
children1 there are innumerable         
opportunities for the exercise of her   
maternal functions1 awaiting her just   
behind the veil1 which seemingly        
separates us from invisible areas4      
,moreover motherhood is qualitative4 ,it
 is not synonymous with maternity4 ,it  
is not made nor unmade by the birthrate4
  ,two important considerations present 

themselves to the world today3 ,one is  
that woman--considered as the fecund    
receptive sex-principle--is refusing the
 sex relationship on the old basis1     
however respectable and well-intentioned
 that basis was4 ,generally speaking1 it
 is evident that the old basis of       
intercourse between the sexes has been1 
is being1 and will continue to be1      
disrupted1 denied1 refused1 as the      
approved and fixed plan and purpose of  
,destiny4 ,the other important          
observation is this3 there is a cosmic  
cause for this4  ,it is only those who  
are blinded by prejudice or by          
sense-conscious limitations who refuse  
to look below the surface for the cause 
of a condition so general as that of    
unhappy marriages2 of innumerable       
divorces2 of the refusal to bear        
children4 ,what is the cause8 ,why are  
women refusing to marry1 or when they do
 marry refusing to live with their      
husbands8 ,why do they shrink from      
child-birth8 ,are they less courageous  

than their progenitors8 ,or are women   
less capable of love--either love of    
children or love of the father who      
begets the children8  ,it will be agreed
 that we are establishing a higher      
standard of love than ever before in    
history4 ,we are beginning to realize   
for the first time in the history of    
many generations1 what we owe to the    
future4 ,formerly men built entirely for
 self1 and for the immediate present4   
,we can look back and trace the         
development of a race consciousness from
 the clan to the nation4 ,in this       
century we see the barriers between     
races and nations and sects and         
societies1 as also between the sexes1   
slowly dissolving4  ,only a few years   
ago we could not imagine an ,oriental1  
occupying a political1 or educational or
 religions platform with an ,occidental4
 ,now it is a common thing4 ,we know the
 hostility which has existed between the
 ,jew and the ,gentile--now they        
exchange pulpits1 and all sects and all 

nations unite in matters of world       
interest4 ,women are elected to         
political and educational offices4 ,no  
matter that these evidences of unity are
 as yet incomplete4 ,they are promises  
of the birth of a larger concept of love
 than that which prevailed when a man's 
highest idea of honor and of love was to
 protect his immediate family only2 to  
care for his own legal wife and children
 even at the expense of and certainly   
with heartless indifference to the fate 
of any other women and children4  ,to be
 sure1 this protection has often been   
vouchsafed because of the self interest 
which is inseparable from the idea of   
possession and is not1 per se1 a grander
 or nobler impulse than that which      
actuated our hair-clothed antecedents1  
who found that their own lives were best
 conserved by respecting those nearest  
to them4 ,but thus it is that ,love has 
been implanted in human hearts through  
no higher or more altruistic method than
 that of self-interest2 but the nature  

of love is to expand2 to grow2 to give  
of itself until unselfishness must come 
with the final aim of love1 which is    
unity and not possession4  ,we of this  
era are unquestionably manifesting a    
larger and more inclusive ideal of love1
 and since the ,female ,principle       
conserves the higher aspects of love1 we
 are bound to concede that a higher     
ideal of love is possible to the woman  
of today than ever before4 ,we must take
 into consideration the average of the  
sex1 at the same time not forgetting    
that in the highest type of individual1 
the qualities of both sexes are         
balanced1 uniting the spiritual1        
self-sacrificing and unselfish          
love-element of the female principle1   
with the wider scope1 the inclusive     
element of the male4 ,let us remember   
that we are dealing with principles and 
not merely with individuals4  ,admitting
 that it is not because of lack of love1
 either maternal or conjugal1 that women
 are shirking marriage and maternity1 we

 may then ask3 ,what is the cause8 ,the 
answer may be found in the conclusion   
that women are done with mere           
instinctive procreation4 ,they demand   
conditions consistent with the birth of 
a higher type of human-kind4 ,they      
desire to make right the way for the    
coming of the perfect race--a race that 
will not snarl and bite and growl and   
tear and claw and choke and starve and  
freeze and otherwise kill each other    
over the possession of bones4  ,ever and
 ever we have been promised the coming  
of the perfect man--the man-god1 as     
,emerson said4 ,this means the ,god in  
,man consciously active1 and awake4     
,this ,god-nature of ,man's has been    
asleep1 submerged under the domination  
of the animal nature which subdues and  
appropriates4  ,a race of supermen can  
be born only of full and complete union4
 ,animals reproduce their kind1 but     
man's perogative is to invite the gods  
to come to earth4 ,we may consciously   
beget souls1 not merely reproduce       

bodies4 ,women are demanding a union in 
which there shall be something more than
 mere physical contact resulting in     
reproduction4 ,this demand is working   
itself out more or less blindly         
according to the development of         
individual women1 but the ideal of soul 
union is coming to be more and more     
recognized not only as a desirable type 
of union1 but also as the initiative of 
the promised time when the kingdom of   
,god should come on earth as it is in   
the heavens4  ,all races have uttered   
this prayer1 apparently with a firm     
belief in its efficacy4 ,if they have   
not faith in its appeal1 it were surely 
vain and foolish to voice it ,but we are
 assured that ,god always keeps his     
promises1 which is simply one way of    
saying that the law of the cosmos is    
reliable4  ,one calls it ,evolution and 
another calls it ,god1 but both must    
agree that whether ,god or ,evolution be
 the name1 ,love is the result4 ,there  
can be no higher or more spiritual phase

 of life than that in which ,love is an 
ever-present reality4 ,neither can we   
with any degree of logic assume that a  
function so universal1 so all-pervading1
 and also so inspiring1 as that of ,sex1
 has its beginning and its termination  
on the physical plane--a manifestation  
of life which even physicists are bound 
to concede is an infinitesimal part of  
cosmic activities4  ,we need not worry  
therefore lest the race shall die1      
because of a decreasing birthrate as we 
see it on the physical plane4 ,there are
 many other places and planes of        
consciousness4 ,the stars and the       
planets are peopled4 ,the cosmos is very
 much alive1 because ,sex is the axis   
7,x-is7 upon which it rotates in perfect
 harmony4  ,the fact which we here wish 
to emphasize is that the ,female        
,principle is refusing maternity1 and   
above all the bondage of matrimony for  
the important reason that the time has  
come for the rearing of the ,man-god2   
for the establishment of the spiritual  

function of sex1 superceding the mere   
instinctive animal urge of procreation  
and sense gratification4  ,evolution is 
apparent in all other phases of our     
life-activities4 ,why should it not     
manifest in this most important of all  
our systems of intercourse8  ,the mere  
act of bringing forth children is not in
 itself either sacred or holy4 ,far more
 often it has been a perfunctory duty or
 a punishment for indulgence in an act  
of which men and women have been more   
than half ashamed1 even while seeking it
 with the instinctive urge of a cosmic  
law which cannot be escaped1 although it
 may be co-operated with to advantage4  
,nor does the act of giving birth to    
children confer true motherhood4        
,maternity is not necessarily motherhood
 any more than matrimony is always      
marriage4 ,there are many mothers who   
have never borne children4 ,and there   
are many women with children who know   
not the first faint dawn of that        
wonderful1 beautiful and intense        

7because spiritual7 love which comes    
most often in the guise of motherhood1  
but which is always present when two    
souls who are truly mated contact each  
other's inner nature4  ,if the women of 
today will insist upon the sacredness   
and the rightfulness of birth the women 
of tomorrow will not seek to evade      
motherhood4 ,if the women of today will 
establish the sacredness of all life2 if
 they will not rest until every child   
that is born into this world is         
recognized as legitimate and more1 is   
welcomed2 is given every advantage of   
education1 of healthful body1 of right  
moral training1 rest assured that the   
women of the future will seek only to   
rival each other in the quality and the 
perfection of their motherhood4  ,the   
efforts of many radicals to enact       
legislation regulating the birthrate1   
the struggle to disseminate knowledge of
 how to prevent conception1 may be well 
meant as these things are consistent    
with prevailing conditions4 ,but they   

are not the final answer to the problem4
 ,love is the only answer4 ,where love  
is permitted to rule1 children are not  
only welcome but ecstatically desired   
and provided for4  ,motherhood is a hope
 and a joy to the normal woman4         
,comparatively every woman would be     
normal under proper social and economic 
conditions4 ,when women seek to evade   
maternity it is either because of lack  
of sufficient means to care for         
children1 or it is because of lack of   
sufficient love4 ,or it is because of   
fear of that modern mo-loch1 ,public    
,opinion4  ,when a woman truly loves a  
man1 she longs to be the mother of his  
children4 ,a balanced world will make it
 possible for every woman to be free    
from the bondage of fear and poverty1   
and ill-health1 leaving her free to be  
guided in the most vital and important  
function of her life1 by the call of the
 highest love of which she is capable4  
,love will establish motherhood as a    
divine privilege4 ,certainly no other   

power on earth or in the realms above   
can do so4 ,neither preachments nor     
platitudes1 nor punishments1 nor        
legislative blunderings4 ,love is the   
only saviour of mankind4 ,there is no   
other true ,god4  ,some day the symbol  
of ,deity which now depicts ,man        
crucified will be superseded upon all   
altars by the image of a winged babe1   
and when this comes to pass1 ,humanity  
will rise to that ideal4                
,,chapter ,,iv                    ,,the 
,,history ,,of ,,marriage ,,and ,,mating
   ,any attempt to discuss subjects     
pertaining to the sex-relation with     
intelligence and an optimistic outlook  
is handicapped by the fact that         
sex-problems are so intimately          
associated with religious prejudices1   
reasons for which we have already       
mentioned in the chapter devoted to     
sex-worship and sex-degradation4  ,it is
 possible1 therefore1 that in seeking to
 define freedom and to make a plea for  
the freeing of women and men from the   

bonds of matrimony1 we may be accused of
 seeking to demolish with one blow1 so  
to speak1 the social institution of     
marriage4  ,such is not the intention of
 the present writer1 for reasons which  
are based upon something far more       
noteworthy than a concession to the     
prejudices and beliefs of the average4  
,luther ,burbank has said3 ,in pursuing 
any of the everlasting and fundamental  
laws of nature1 all previous bias and   
inherited prejudices must be laid aside1
 if the student hopes to be taken into  
,nature's confidence and be the sharer  
of her secrets4  ,the average person1   
entrenched behind the bulwark of        
theological bias1 saturated with a      
belief in the finality of all previous  
discovery and knowledge1 teems with a   
fanatical desire to defend his ,god--as 
if the ,supreme ,power1 whatever name we
 give it--were not capable of           
self-defense4  ,it is due to this       
mistaken zeal on the part of the        
short-sighted ones1 that human evolution

 is slow1 albeit it is likewise         
inevitable4  ,they are like those who1  
viewing the wrecking of a ruined        
habitation1 condemned by the ,board of  
,public ,safety1 try to stop the process
 of the workers2 they do not know that  
when the ground shall have been cleared1
 a finer1 more sightly1 and above all1  
more habitable building will be put up  
on the same ground2 and anything from   
the old architecture that was worthy of 
preservation will be used in the new    
building4  ,the dug-outs of our         
antedeluvian ancestors were designed to 
protect them from the destructive forces
 of storm and wave and also from their  
brothers1 the enemy2 and although our   
ideas of what constitutes a desirable   
dwelling-place have evolved to our      
modern ideal of a home1 rather than a   
shelter1 yet the fundamental concept    
remains4 ,a study of history should be  
encouraging if only to prove that no    
radical changes in human ethics have    
ever been forced upon us4 ,verily1 the  

gods wait upon men and until there is   
something like a concerted demand for   
improved conditions1 they stand just    
outside the door waiting to be bidden1  
,enter1 ,friend4  ,as with mental ideas1
 so it is with ethical ideals4 ,until   
there is a more general demand for a    
higher concept of marriage1 it is quite 
certain that the world will worry along 
with the one which now does duty for the
 majority1 although it must be admitted 
that the poor thing gives evidence of   
much decrepitude and suffers from as    
many complaints as a hypochondriac4     
,but1 the fact that marriage in some    
form has prevailed as one of the        
fundamental necessities of human ethics1
 ever since the beginning of recorded   
history1 and doubtless before that1 is1 
we believe1 very satisfactory evidence  
that marriage has a permanent place in  
social and individual evolution4 ,what  
that place is1 can be deduced from a    
study of the history of marriage4       
,there are two different viewpoints from

 which we may discuss all phases of     
,life1 namely1 the mystical and the     
ethical4 ,the mystic sees all life from 
the inside1 as it were2 and the         
physicist studies the exterior1 the     
appearance4 ,to the mystic1 the visible1
 or external1 world is a succession of  
symbols1 which he must interpret4 ,to   
him1 the everlasting and fundamental    
truths of the ,cosmos are told in a     
succession of moving pictures4 ,in fact1
 the mystic has long anticipated the art
 which we now see manifested in our     
film-theatres and has realized that the 
scenes1 which appear to the eye as      
actual events1 are but the reflection of
 scenes enacted in a place far distant  
and long before the moment of projection
 upon the screen which meets his eye4   
,science examines1 dissects1 and        
classifies these symbols according to   
their relation to other symbols which   
the mind has previously noted and       
classified4 ,the same conclusion awaits 
both ,science and ,mysticism4  ,humanity

 is ever seeking the ,reality--the      
,noumenon1 which we intuitively         
postulate as behind the phenomena of    
,nature4  ,the institution of marriage1 
coming down to us through all the ages1 
side by side with the mystery of sex1   
and incorporated with the sex-mystery   
into every form and system of religious 
rites and ceremonials among all peoples1
 would seem to have a place in human    
ethics1 as substantial and as permanent 
as the germ of life itself4  ,indeed1   
the institution of marriage1 in its     
first stages of evolution1 obtains in   
the animal kingdom1 where selection in a
 great variety of forms is common4  ,and
 it must be confessed that here we find 
the same tendency to change and         
variation1 both in regard to the        
individual and the family species1 as we
 have in the human family4  ,polyandry1 
polygamy1 and monogamy1 have been       
general among some animals while among  
others only one form of mating has been 
the rule4  ,strange to say1 sex         

promiscuity is not at all general among 
the animals1 though polygamy is common4 
,the adoption of polygamy is obviously  
due to one of two things1 or possibly1  
to be more specific1 to both4 ,first1   
because the percentage of deaths among  
the males is greater than among the     
females2 this applies to animal life1   
both wild and domestic4 ,in wild life1  
because of frequent combats2 in domestic
 life1 because the females are kept for 
breeding while the males are slaughtered
 for food4  ,the second reason is       
because the female is seldom as virile  
as the male1 and to this is also added  
the debilitating effect of bearing and  
rearing the young1 the necessity for    
which must have manifested itself very  
early among the various families1 from  
motives of self-protection1 if from     
nothing higher1 since victory evidently 
favored the numerically strong4  ,in    
bird-life1 especially1 where love is so 
vital a part of their life1 and so      
beautifully expressed1 monogamy is the  

rule1 and in some species1 like that of 
the robin1 a certain aristocracy seems  
to exist1 preventing intercourse with   
any other family4 ,the robin will mate  
only with a robin1 and not infrequently 
mates for life2 which is to say that    
should one die1 the other refuses to    
mate again4  ,it is claimed that the    
bald-headed eagle never varies from     
monogamy4 ,a mate once chosen1 the union
 lasts until the death of either        
partner4 ,it does not follow from this1 
however1 that the bald-headed eagle is a
 creature of a superior moral           
conscience4 ,it may be that he is guided
 in his selection of a conjugal mate by 
an intuitional power undeveloped by     
other types of life1 or1 which is far   
more probable1 it may be that his sexual
 nature is easily satisfied and that he 
has no temperamental affinities or      
repulsions1 in which event force of     
habit would be the strongest actuating  
power4 ,this explanation is in keeping  
with the eagle character4  ,the point is

 that marriage1 or what constitutes     
marriage1 exists among birds and        
animals1 and that it antedates history  
as a social institution among men4      
,another fact which we must concede1 if 
we are just1 is that marriage apparently
 knows no systematic and upward trend4  
,there is1 in fact1 no determined       
evolution toward a definite and         
conclusive practice of monogamy1        
although the monogamic custom is        
recognized as the evolutionary type     
among the civilized races of today4     
,nevertheless1 it would be folly to     
imply that a strict monogamy obtains in 
the letter of the word1 or that social  
exigencies might not reinstate polygamy 
as a legalized custom4  ,passing over   
those forms of mating1 which may be     
classed as sex-promiscuity1 such1 for   
example1 as exist among the ,esquimaux1 
and also among the ,dyaks1 of ,borneo1  
where a contract is made for a night by 
the simple expediency of the man and the
 woman exchanging head-gear1 we come to 

one of the earliest and most general    
forms of marriage among primitive       
peoples1 where the parents arranged a   
marriage between their children for     
reasons of personal profit4 ,in these   
instances1 neither the youth nor the    
girl was consulted and generally did not
 meet until they met to consummate the  
marriage4 ,in fact1 they seemed not to  
have any preferences4 ,these marriages  
were easily broken1 unless children     
resulted therefrom1 when there seems to 
have developed a sense of obligation to 
the offspring to continue the family4   
,marriage by capture grew out of the    
matriarchal system and came as the very 
natural revolt of the male from the     
female rule1 in which he had no rights  
and no home with his spouse4 ,since the 
gens of the family was the first        
consideration and this was maintained by
 the female heads of a clan1 there was  
nothing left for the male to do1 if he  
would be a factor in the community1 but 
to steal his wife from her family1 and  

establish a family life of his own4     
,thus the female became the possession  
of the male1 by his right of capture and
 defense4  ,inspired by the thirst for  
further invasions1 the male gradually   
acquired not only one1 but many wives1  
which constituted his possessions1 from 
the fact that he had earned them by     
right of conquest1 conquest being not   
only the savage but also the civilized  
idea of earning4  ,indeed1 our modern   
marriages reveal a degree of savagery in
 this respect1 which is not suspected by
 the casual observer4 ,the almost       
general observance of what has come to  
be known in legal jurisprudence as the  
unwritten law1 which permits a man to go
 unpunished when he kills another man   
whom he believes to have been on terms  
of intimacy with his wife1 is a tacit   
admission of a man's vested rights in   
his wife's person4  ,in innumerable     
instances1 which have been given        
world-wide publicity within very recent 
times1 the man who has been guilty of   

homicide under these circumstances has  
been exalted to the plane of a          
martyr-hero1 and one woman writer1 whose
 hysterical effusions are given         
considerable space in the public print1 
defended a man who had taken advantage  
of this unwritten law to shoot his      
rival1 in the following words3 ,you1    
,mister1 would shoot a man whom you     
found prowling through your house with  
the intention of stealing your silver2  
your jewelry2 your property of whatever 
kind or value4 ,how much more1 then1    
should you guard the honor of your wife1
 from these pestilential marauders8  ,of
 course we question the right of human  
beings to kill each other in defense of 
mere property2 but that is not the point
 here4 ,the inference here is obvious   
that this woman1 who represents at least
 the average degree of intelligence1    
placed her sex in the category of man's 
possessions1 utterly ignoring the       
woman's right1 or power of free-will4   
,mention is here made of this incident  

to show how deeply rooted is the        
possessive idea of marriage1 which had  
its origin in nothing more ideal than   
the animal instinct of the dog with the 
bone4  ,nor would we give the impression
 that this one-sided idea of what       
constitutes a monogamous marriage is    
confined to the male4 ,the same idea of 
possession as of a piece of property1   
representing so much investment of time 
and money1 and service of one kind or   
another1 actuates the female also       
although the rights of the woman in the 
male are not so generally defended and  
she seldom resorts to such violent      
methods of defense or of revenge for    
loss of her property4 ,perhaps she has a
 keener sense of values4 ,necessity has 
substituted support for outraged honor1 
and modern woman avenges the loss of her
 possessions through the safer channels 
of the law-courts4  ,the feeling of     
possession1 so ingrained in human       
nature1 and so much a part of our modern
 marriage relation1 is not grounded upon

 a moral code1 which has for its basic  
principle fidelity to one's partner4    
,this is proven by the fact that men    
have for some time abrogated to         
themselves the right of promiscuity1 the
 main clause of their defense being that
 their conduct does not deprive their   
wife and family of satisfactory         
maintenance4 ,many a woman today1       
irreproachably respectable and          
church-going1 will admit to herself if  
not to her neighbors1 that she closes   
her eyes to her husband's laxity in     
sexual matters1 as long as he provides  
well for me4  ,when we come1 as we will 
later1 to a consideration of what       
constitutes morality1 we will see that1 
like all our evolving ideals1 it is     
governed by immediate conditions1 both  
individual and social4  ,it is easy to  
see why polygamy has been practiced1 as 
a necessary expedient1 and why women    
have been held so cheaply1 when we      
realize the centuries of devastating    
wars1 both of conquest and of defense1  

which besmirch the path of ,evolution4  
,thus the tendency to sthetic selection1
 always more pronounced in the female   
than in the male1 has been swallowed up 
in the false valuation put upon the     
male1 because of his relative scarcity4 
,in ,america1 in the early sixties1 fear
 of the epithet old maid drove many a   
woman to marriage with a man whom1      
personally1 she did not like1 but as he 
represented a more or less rara avis and
 as her claim to attractiveness rested  
upon her success in trapping this rare  
bird1 she permitted herself to become a 
victim of conditions2 and we may safely 
conclude that no higher motive actuated 
the average woman of the last century   
than that of submission to conditions1  
for the virtues of fidelity and devotion
 to the home and fireside which critics 
of present-day morals are fond of       
reminding us characterized our          
grandmothers4  ,briefly1 then1 we may   
review the history of marriage and of   
mating1 everywhere1 and at all times1 as

 variable1 controlled by expediency2 and
 always based on the egoistic idea of   
possession1 expressed by the right of   
the parents to dispose of their         
children2 the right by capture2 the     
right by purchase2 and the right by     
consent4  ,one or all of these customs  
have been tried in various parts of the 
world and at various times1 and seldom  
has the condition of woman approached   
even so enviable a place as that of the 
female animal1 except in the            
comparatively short periods when women  
have been the gens of the family4       
,these periods have become more and more
 infrequent1 until the legal status of  
women has been1 as it is now1 no more   
than what the evolving consciousness of 
the male permitted to her4  ,it is a    
question whether1 under our pretended   
monogamy1 which is1 per se1 a more ideal
 condition than polygamy1 all women have
 been either better conditioned or more 
moral4 ,the answer depends largely upon 
our idea of what constitutes morality4  

,certainly1 the condition of women in   
,christian countries has been1 and is   
now1 far from ideal2 which would1       
judging from surface appearances1       
indicate that monogamy1 as it has been  
practiced in the past1 served only as an
 ideal1 and at best has been of first   
aid to the male1 primarily because of a 
question of personal health and         
cleanliness2 secondly1 as a means of    
developing in him the latent qualities  
of altruism1 manifested selfishly enough
 at first in protecting his possessions2
 among which he egotistically conceded  
his children at least first place2      
although the wife was hardly more than a
 convenience and an incubator4  ,of the 
conditions that have prevailed under the
 monogamous custom and among the        
so-called superior races1 ,letourneau1  
in his ,evolution of the ,family1 says3 
,the ,hebrews seem to have been alone1  
among the ,semites1 in adopting         
monogamy1 at least in general practice4 
,doubtless the subjection of the ,jewish

 woman was not extreme as it is in      
,kabyle2 it was1 however1 very great4   
,her consent to marriage1 it is true1   
was necessary when she had reached      
majority1 but she was all the same sold 
to her husband4 ,we find hardly more    
than the portrait of a laborious        
servant1 busy and grasping4 ,we shall   
see that the wife1 though she might gain
 much money1 which seems to have been   
the ideal of the ,hebrew1 according to  
the ,proverbs1 was repudiable at will1  
with no other reason than the caprice of
 the master who had bought her4         
,finally1 and this is much more severe1 
she was always obliged to be able to    
prove1 cloths in hand1 that she was a   
virgin at the moment of her marriage1   
and this under pain of being stoned4    
,the same state of affairs or worse     
existed in ,india and in ,persia1       
although in ,persia there seems to have 
been an attempt to enjoin the same      
fidelity upon the husband as upon the   
wife1 according to the ,zend-,avesta2   

the only severe restriction to marriage 
being that neither should marry an      
infidel4 ,in ,india1 where there has    
been for centuries an alleged monogamy  
7except among the privileged classes1   
where concubinage held sway71 the       
ethical condition of the women has been1
 and still is1 deplorable4  ,in ancient 
,greece and ,rome the position of the   
woman was most inferior4 ,she was       
generally purchased1 or given for       
service4 ,her husband's word was law1   
and mothers were compelled to obey their
 male children as uncomplainingly as    
though they were slaves4 ,the wife and  
mother was not permitted to attend      
festivities and neither was she allowed 
the selection of her friends1 her       
husband deciding this choice for her4   
,this1 of course1 applied to the        
respectable1 or so-called virtuous      
woman1 which constituted the average4   
,then1 as now1 two classes of women were
 to some extent exempt from this rigid  
custom4 ,one class was formed by those  

women whose wealth conferred upon them a
 degree of power1 because the possessors
 of great wealth have always been a law 
unto themselves4 ,the other class was   
formed by the women who practiced       
prostitution1 and who1 by reason of     
their mode of life1 met men on terms of 
at least temporary social equality4     
,thus it is evident that the path of the
 virtuous woman without the independence
 that accompanies the possession of her 
own money1 was in ancient days much more
 thorny than that of the concubine or   
the prostitute2 and it is because of    
this fact that parental love1 the most  
powerful of all levers employed by the  
,cosmic ,law to lift love out of        
degradation1 instituted the custom of   
the dowry1 and although this1 too1 has  
at various times become a source of     
degradation1 inspiring impoverished     
aristocrats to loveless marriages with  
so-called inferiors1 yet it has after   
all been a factor in the evolution of   
women and the preservation of the races4

 ,it has served two purposes4 ,it has   
made women1 in theory at least1 more    
independent2 and it has resulted in an  
admixture of blood which has saved the  
aristocratic class from extinction      
through decadence4  ,as might well be   
expected in those instances where women 
did enjoy a degree of liberty that was  
due to financial and social advantages1 
they took a mean delight in ruling it   
over their male relatives1 and1 as we   
may note in our own time1 men who       
yielded to the seduction of wealth1 and 
married women to whom they were forced  
to accord the freedom and the deference 
which wealth confers1 complained        
bitterly of their lot2 as witness the   
following complaint of a ,roman husband3
 ,i have married a witch with a dowry2  
,i took her to have her fields and      
houses1 and that1 ,o ,apollo1 is the    
worst of evils4  ,one dominant idea     
controlled the status of marriage in    
early ,greece and ,rome--an idea in full
 accord with the materialistic phase of 

their civilization2 this was the idea of
 procreation2 an idea that logically was
 inevitable1 since continuous warfare   
resulted in a population in which women 
predominated1 and we are told that in   
the interest of procreation both        
childlessness and celibacy were severely
 punished4 ,thus the situation of women 
was that best described by the phrase   
between the devil and the deep sea4     
,regarding the ideal of marital         
fidelity1 ,plutarch is authority for the
 story that ,cato loaned his wife to his
 friend ,hortensius and took her back on
 the death of the latter1 plus a rich   
inheritance from the transaction4       
,however1 should ,martha have yielded   
herself voluntarily to ,hortensius1 from
 motives of affection1 the chances are  
that she would have met death at the    
hands of her justly outraged spouse4    
,in ,europe1 similar conditions         
prevailed1 and although monogamy was the
 rule1 concubinage and prostitution in  
all its forms existed4 ,the wife was    

subject to the husband in every wish and
 whim1 and after him to the eldest son4 
,this is true today in ,germany and     
among the ,saxons in a degree whose     
modifications do not accord with other  
advances in our social ethics4  ,it is a
 mistake to claim that religious systems
 have had any direct influence in the   
emancipation of women during the        
nineteen hundred years of ,christian    
civilization among the white races4     
,religious systems have only reflected  
the race-thought2 they have not molded  
it4 ,this is true1 despite the fact that
 true religion1 when esoterically       
understood1 has always aimed at union1  
and union means equality along all      
lines1 sex-equality2 social equality2   
race equality4  ,we must here digress   
from the main point of this chapter long
 enough to explain that equality is not 
synonymous with identity1 as seems to be
 the impression among the many2 a       
misconception which we regret to say is 
shared by the judge on the bench with   

the workingman on the construction gang1
 and the idiotic observation that if    
women expect to vote they must expect to
 stand up in the street-car1 is not1    
alas6 confined to the lout1 but is quite
 often voiced by the professional man4  
,the same silly idea prevails with      
regard to race-equality4 ,it is judged  
by a similarity to our own in matters of
 dress2 or choice of foods2 by          
inconsequential differences1 rather than
 by an estimate of what a given race may
 contribute to the variety of human     
knowledge2 and yet it is evident that   
nature aims at variety2 at a            
multiplicity of ideas and customs and   
creations4  ,differentiation is the     
primal attempt4  ,woman's claim to      
equality should be based upon the fact  
that first of all she is different from1
 rather than identical with1 men4  ,the 
woman who dons male attire and eschews  
all so-called feminine frivolity in her 
efforts to prove herself man's equal1 is
 confessing that in her natural         

environment she does not consider       
herself his equal1 and is masquerading  
as man1 in the vain hope that she may   
deceive herself and others into thinking
 she is4  ,an individual is important to
 ,society in proportion to his          
originality2 in proportion as he        
contributes some new idea2 some hitherto
 unfamiliar view4  ,returning to the    
point of what constitutes true religion1
 namely1 a consciousness of our unity   
with all life1 we find that although    
religious ethics have included this     
ideal1 it has not been emphasized in the
 ratio of its importance4 ,the result is
 that where unity should have been      
established1 segregation has been the   
rule1 and it is without any desire to   
reflect discredit upon the ideal of the 
,church that we point to the fact that  
woman's emancipation1 and her           
co-operation in all departments of life1
 as a hope1 if not a consummated        
reality1 has but now made its initial   
bow to the world4  ,that this initial   

bow comes side by side with1 if not     
actually in the wake of1 disruption of  
the old theologic dogmas2               
dissatisfaction with religious systems2 
and a determined disregard for what has 
been presented as religion2 cannot be   
denied4 ,the fact is that religious     
creeds never save anyone2 never really  
elevate nations4 ,at best they have been
 but a consolation prize or a narcotic4 
,love of freedom is the great liberator4
  ,the influence of ,rationalism1 as    
inaugurated by ,ingersoll in ,america   
and ,bradlaugh in ,england1 was the     
opening wedge4 ,christian ,science1     
mothered by a woman1 incorporated the   
phrase ,father-,mother-,god into its    
literature1 and unity has been the      
avowed ideal of all the variety of new  
cults and philosophies presented under  
so great a variety of names that we     
cannot here enumerate them4             
,nevertheless1 we are still many leagues
 short of realizing this ideal1 despite 
the preachments in its favor4           

,politically1 the ideal of unity is     
presented1 more or less imperfectly1 of 
course1 as ,socialism1 and ,suffrage4   
,commercially1 still more imperfectly in
 the merchants' let us get together on  
this1 and in efforts at legislation that
 shall control corporation dividends and
 labor schedules1 and regulate hours of 
work4 ,in fact1 all along the line we   
see the shadow cast by the rising sun of
 unity4  ,we have thus briefly traced   
the history of marriage and of mating1  
in order that we may discuss with sane  
impartiality the questions3 ,what does  
marriage symbolize8 ,what is its        
function in the life of the social body2
 in the existence of the sphere itself2 
of the entire ,cosmos8  ,has it any real
 place and purpose beyond that of       
procreation1 or any more spiritual      
function than the perpetuation of the   
human species8                          
,,chapter ,v                ,,the       
,,symbolism ,,of ,,marriage ,,and ,,of  
,,sex-,,union   ,notwithstanding the    

patent fact that the institution of     
monogamous marriage has not resulted in 
an ideal condition1 it is also plain    
that any other ideal of sex-union is    
impossible to a highly developed race4  
,monogamy1 despite its present          
unsatisfactory condition1 is a promise  
of the highest ideal to which mortals   
can aspire2 it is the imperfect image of
 that ideal state which human nature has
 always striven for4 ,that we have      
striven for the most part blindly2 that 
we have fallen far short of the ideal   
aimed at1 should not deter us from      
realizing that the ideal is right4      
,monogamy1 as a type of the perfect     
marriage1 symbolizes the meeting and the
 consequent union of a man and a woman  
who are perfect complementaries4  ,in   
order to be a perfect and lasting union1
 they must be spiritual counterparts4   
,without this counterpartal affinity as 
the base of union1 no power on earth can
 force them to unite1 although all the  
laws of men be employed to keep them    

tied to each other in the body4 ,if two 
persons belong to each other by the     
inviolable law of spiritual counterpart1
 no multitudinous set of man-made laws  
can keep their souls apart1 although    
these codes may temporarily separate    
them in the flesh4 ,the bonds of true   
matrimony are holy--the word meaning    
whole2 entire2 complete2 but these bonds
 are of an interior nature2 they may be 
judged only from the interior nature of 
two persons2 and any attempt to decide  
this all-important question from the    
standpoint of exterior judgment must    
fail4  ,the perfect union of the one man
 and the one woman is the highest ideal 
of marriage of which we can conceive2   
but shall we for that reason insist that
 marriage as a social institution is    
always complete and holy8 ,when two     
immature persons come together under the
 stimulus of no more complementary      
impulse than the blind force of chemical
 attraction and cohesion--an instinct1  
which we share in common with every form

 of life1 from the lowest insect to     
man--shall they be compelled to abide by
 that act as long as they both shall    
live in the physical body8  ,we would   
say1 ,heaven forbid6 only that the      
appeal is unnecessary4 ,heaven does     
forbid1 and that is why we see so many  
attempts to disrupt these immature      
relationships4  ,the striving of sexual 
elements through affinities1 or         
passional attractions1 after congenial  
marriage unions1 is the cause of all the
 motions1 growths1 and activities in the
 physical and moral world1 says a       
writer1 and he adds3 ,the failure to    
attain the desired end1 and the warfare 
between uncongenial and repulsive       
elements is the cause of all the broken 
equilibriums1 discords1 and collisions  
in both spheres4 ,if the atomic marriage
 in nature were perfect1 there would be 
no storms or droughts1 or poisons or    
monstrosities1 or disease4 ,if the      
marriage between the individual will and
 understanding1 between the interior and

 exterior life1 were perfect1 we should 
have regenerated men upon earth1 worthy 
to be called sons of ,god4 ,if the      
marriage between the sexes were perfect1
 we should have a ,social ,paradise4    
,marriage1 then1 in the sense of the    
conjugal union of two persons of        
opposite sex1 is the most important     
function of our lives2 every other      
activity is subsidiary to it4 ,commerce 
is carried on1 only because of this     
union2 all the laws of man are the      
outgrowth of marriage2 all morality     
comes from the ideal marriage--the union
 of ,wisdom and ,love4 ,to imagine that 
a function1 so vitally important to our 
exterior life1 should have no place in  
the phases of life which we know as     
higher1 is a manifest absurdity1 and    
comes from those attenuated concepts of 
what constitutes spirituality1 which    
,theology has postulated2 concepts      
which1 entrenched behind the walls of   
thus saith the ,lord1 have temporarily  
defied modern progress4  ,there is no   

wide gulf between the spiritual and the 
material worlds1 although the material  
is but an imperfect reflection of the   
basic principle of life4  ,marriage1    
then1 is eternally going on1 ,nature is 
a system of nuptials1 says a writer1 and
 nature is only the language of spirit  
or ,divine ,life4  ,how it came about   
that ,theology made the mistake of      
degrading sex-union and of limiting it  
to the ephemeral life of the body only1 
we shall come to later4 ,for the        
present1 a brief resume of the types of 
marriage ceremony1 which have been      
universal1 will convince us that ,nature
 has always sought to convey to the     
human mind this great secret of eternal 
and never-ceasing union of              
complementaries4  ,take1 for example1   
the symbol of the wedding-ring4 ,this   
custom1 varying only in unimportant     
details1 consistent with the prevailing 
social custom of the times1 has come    
down to us from prehistoric days4 ,the  
golden circle1 sometimes worn only by   

the bride1 but frequently by both bride 
and groom1 is emblematical of the       
completion of the circle of wisdom and  
the final attainment1 in the twain made 
one1 of the finding by each of the other
 half4 ,the circle is always used to    
express the ,absolute2 ,aum2 the        
,supreme ,power that is without         
beginning and without end4  ,according  
to the old ,jewish law1 the wedding ring
 must be made of pure gold and must be  
earned and paid for by the bridegroom2  
he might not acquire it by credit or    
gift4 ,there is in this custom something
 more than mere thrift2 or the assurance
 of the bridegroom's ability to sustain 
the needs and comforts of his wife and  
prospective family4 ,it symbolizes the  
truth that no one may hope to acquire   
this priceless blessing of perfect      
conjugal union1 other than by his own   
efforts4 ,immortality must be earned1   
and perfect union1 counterpartal        
union--which means actually twain made  
one1 comes only by dint of strife and   

demand and proof of our fitness for the 
,perfect ,life4  ,another custom1 which 
has been in almost universal vogue1 is  
that of drinking wine1 emblematical of  
the wine of life1 at the completion of a
 marriage ceremony4 ,sometimes this has 
been the prerogative of the bride and   
groom only2 and sometimes of the        
officiating priest2 but more generally  
the entire company has shared in this   
custom4 ,wine drinking thus symbolizes  
eternal youth and virility1 which can be
 enjoyed only by those who have attained
 to the complete life--the divine or    
spiritual sex-union4  ,this symbolism is
 obvious when we take into our          
consciousness the truth that only       
complementaries have the power to act   
and react1 without change1 or loss4     
,equilibrium is maintained by a perfect 
balance of two forces2 if one force be  
ever so small a fraction less than the  
other1 perfect balance is lacking4      
,another marriage custom in general use 
among the ancients was the donning of a 

crown on the wedding day4 ,this custom  
formerly included the bridegroom as well
 as the bride1 but later was confined to
 the bride alone1 as was also the custom
 of wearing a veil4 ,at early ,greek    
marriages crowns made of gold or silver 
were placed upon the heads of both bride
 and groom2 tapers were lighted2 and    
rings exchanged4  ,we have a similar    
custom today in all fashionable church  
weddings4 ,we have the lighted tapers1  
signifying the quenchless fires of love2
 and the circlet which symbolizes       
eternity4  ,the crown symbolizes the    
truth that a truly spiritual union      
bestows the crown of immortality2 the   
power of ,godhood in the ,kingdom of    
,love2 which supersedes all earthly     
kingdoms in splendor4 ,this is a literal
 truth1 although it cannot be understood
 in its full significance until we are  
fit for the kingdom4  ,the veil which   
the bride lifts at the completion of the
 ceremony symbolizes the truth that when
 we shall have attained to the spiritual

 marriage1 the veil that separates the  
interior from the exterior life1 shall  
be lifted2 it is so thin that the       
illusion1 of which the wedding veil is  
made1 rightly symbolizes this apparent  
separation of the physical life from the
 spiritual4 ,when the veil is lifted1 we
 shall know our completement in the     
bliss of perfect union2 and when we have
 found that other half of our being1    
which is the underlying urge of our     
every thought and act1 we shall find the
 veil lifted4 ,the entire panorama of   
the universe becomes an open book4      
,there is no visible and invisible2 it  
is all ,one1 with our own bi-une sex    
nature for the pivotal center4  ,so     
simple and so obvious are all these     
symbols of the natural man that we are  
astounded1 when we have found the key1  
that we did not sooner penetrate their  
meaning4 ,she will have a crown in      
,heaven1 we say of some self-sacrificing
 and loving soul1 and the phrase        
suggests to most of us the power of     

earthly kings and queens with all their 
splendor of jewels and retainers2 but   
there is an inner meaning which the     
splendor and the crowns of earth's kings
 and queens symbolizes4  ,spiritual     
union with the perfect complement of our
 interior nature is in itself the crown 
of regal power1 of which earthly rulers 
are symbolical4 ,the spiritual body     
through this union becomes radiant2     
luminous2 and shines with such splendor 
that it dazzles the eyes of the         
beholder4 ,what constitutes the beauty  
and the value of gems--diamonds2 rubies2
 sapphires2 emeralds2 topaz2 pearls8    
,it is the radiations of light which    
they throw off2 it is their             
luminosity--their transparency4 ,it is1 
indeed1 true1 that the power which we   
see exemplified in the rulers of the    
earth has a corresponding meaning in a  
spiritual sense2 as1 in fact1 have all  
things which we cognize with our        
physical eyes4 ,the ,hindus tell us that
 all things are either the nita or the  

ita message4 ,either they tell us this  
is the way to the heights2 or this is   
not the way4  ,the crown of orange      
blossoms which has supplanted the       
ancient crown of gold and silver and    
tinsel1 worn with such unconsciousness  
of its esoteric message1 symbolizes one 
of the most beautiful truths relating to
 the spiritual marriage--counterpartal  
union4  ,even as this union confers a   
beautiful radiance upon the spiritual   
body1 the body also becomes             
sweet-scented like a flower4 ,weeds1 we 
remember1 have no scent or they may be  
obnoxious in their odor4 ,weeds are     
unregenerate flowers4  ,certain chemical
 combinations produce nauseous gases4   
,the human body is a laboratory in which
 chemical changes are constantly going  
on4 ,the changes produced by            
sex-functioning are greater than        
anything which the experimental chemist 
has ever discovered in nature4  ,it is a
 fact well known to the pathologist that
 an unwilling wife1 however faithful she

 may be1 if forced into the sexual act1 
may present her husband with a          
well-defined case of genital disease2   
nor is this at all strange when we      
consider the now well-recognized fact   
that anger1 fear1 revenge1 avarice1 and 
all the destructive thought-forces      
produce poisons in the secretions of the
 body4  ,in ,rosicrucian literature1 we 
have the story of the ,chymical         
,marriage of ,christian ,rosy ,cross1   
which is1 when read with the key to its 
esoteric meaning1 a story of the        
chemistry of marriage between the sexes4
 ,indeed1 the whole story of the secret 
doctrines of the ,rosicrucians1 is the  
story of the sexes1 and the secret of   
secrets1 which was so zealously guarded 
by the ,hermetics and the ,rosicrucians 
and other secret societies1 is the      
secret of the spiritual union of the    
male and the female principles          
throughout nature and culminating in man
 and woman1 conferring upon them        
immortal life through the perfect       

balance of sex4  ,it has been said that 
women were not admitted to the          
,brotherhood of the ,rosicrucians1 but  
this is not true1 as there is plenty of 
evidence to prove4  ,owing to the enmity
 of the established ,church toward any  
exaltation of the sex-relation1 and     
particularly toward the veneration of   
woman1 it became necessary for those who
 sought to keep alive the fires of      
,esoteric ,wisdom to surround themselves
 with the most rigid secrecy2 in        
consequence of this1 the story of the   
sexes1 constituting the very heart and  
center of ,hermetic philosophy1 has been
 told in allegory1 unintelligible unless
 one has the inner sight or has been    
initiated into the secret code4  ,in the
 sixteenth and seventeenth centuries1   
the ,church had so far succeeded in     
undermining the work of the ,hermetics1 
that women were excluded from the       
,brotherhood1 and the apparent sole     
purpose of the secret order was the     
search for metallic transmutation4 ,side

 by side with this convincing evidence  
that the esoteric meaning of the symbols
 has been perverted1 we find their      
allegorical phraseology intermixed with 
frequent allusions to passages from the 
,scripture and to the ,virgin ,mary1    
proving conclusively that the ,church1  
then in the zenith of its power1 had    
confiscated the archives of the secret  
order1 and1 either through fear of the  
influence of their work1 or possibly    
through lack of any adequate            
comprehension of their wisdom1 had      
employed their symbolism to the further 
glory of the temporal power of the      
,church4  ,this subject will again be   
dealt with in a chapter devoted to ,the 
,hidden ,wisdom1 and so we will leave it
 for the present4  ,one other great     
spiritual truth relating to marriage is 
found in the intimate and constantly    
recurring association of the turtle-dove
 with the ceremony of marriage4  ,the   
dove is1 par excellence1 an example of  
conjugal love4 ,the turtle-dove1 more   

than any other of the dove family1 is   
noted for the fervor of its sexual      
desires2 fidelity to its mate2 and for  
the devotion and diffusion of its love  
nature4 ,it is well known that if either
 of a pair of turtle-doves dies1 the    
mate will grieve itself to death4 ,like 
a pair of turtle-doves is said of a     
couple who are happily married1 and the 
domestic life of the dove has made the  
dove a symbol of peace4  ,doves have    
been held sacred in many parts of the   
world1 and figure prominently in        
religious symbolic architecture and     
utensils1 from ancient times down to the
 present day4 ,the symbol of the doves  
flying over the ark of the covenant     
typifies the spiritual origin of birth1 
the ark being the primordial egg1 from  
which issued all the forms of life4 ,let
 us also remember that they issued in   
pairs4                                  
,,chapter ,,vi    ,,continence2         
,,chastity ,,and ,,asceticism2 ,,their  
,,spiritual ,,significance   ,from the  

earliest forms of sex-worship1 in which 
the creative function was doubtless     
given its rightful place1 down through  
successive stages of sex-degeneracy1 we 
come to the sex-perversions and the     
almost general licentiousness of        
,ancient ,greece and ,rome1 with whom   
the sex function became nothing more    
exalted than a method of procreation1 in
 common with the animals2 and a means of
 sense-gratification1 on a par with     
gluttony4  ,even among the intellectual 
,greeks1 the highest type of a          
civilization that1 although epicurean   
and esthetic1 was yet essentially       
materialistic1 sexual intercourse had no
 more spiritual place than it occupies  
today in fine stock-breeding4  ,between 
ancient ,roman licentiousness and our   
own modern attitude toward the          
sex-relation1 there intervenes that     
terrible time in the history of ,human  
,evolution1 known as the ,dark ,ages1 in
 which was evolved the unnatural view of
 the function of sex1 exemplified rather

 erotically1 in many instances1 by      
asceticism and celibacy4 ,although it   
sounds paradoxical1 yet there is a      
celibacy that is distinctly erotic4  ,in
 reading of some of the experiences in  
the lives of the saints1 the normal1    
healthy person feels an aversion similar
 to that which he experiences in viewing
 the effects of physical disease2 and   
yet we must note in this abnormal       
attitude of the ,church toward the      
sex-relation1 the effect of nature's    
attempt at equilibrium2 a revulsion from
 the effect of the centuries preceding4 
,some of the contributing causes of this
 revulsion were3 celibacy1 except within
 the ,church1 forbidden by the ,roman   
,senate2 the fact that women had no     
choice in marriage2 the devastating wars
 which took the best of physical        
manhood2 and the cheapness of women1    
every man of wealth having as many slave
 women as he could house and feed2 the  
orgies where women1 both bound and free1
 were openly debauched2 all these       

evidences of the utter degradation to   
which the pure and beautiful function of
 sex had sunk1 called for a revulsion2  
and it came in the idea of              
asceticism--an instance where the remedy
 was worse than the disease4 ,the mental
 attitude that resulted in asceticism   
was not one in which the sex function   
was lifted from the mire of             
licentiousness in which it lay2 rather  
it was abandoned altogether as something
 vile and unclean2 and that too1        
unhappily1 by those who should have     
known better4  ,the ,roman ,church1 in  
full accord with the type of ,roman mind
 which fostered it1 still harbored the  
perverted idea that women were inferior4
 ,and it is from the ,roman ,church of  
today rather more than from any other of
 the phases of ,christian ,orthodoxy1   
that we note a militant opposition to   
woman suffrage1 and all the other       
avenues of woman's claim to free        
expression4  ,while retaining all the   
old ,roman's disrespect for woman1 the  

,church instituted and fostered         
celibacy1 as a way out of the old       
profiligacy1 but as though by a sort of 
spiritual irony1 the ,church has        
retained1 from its pagan ancestors1 the 
sex-worshippers1 the idol of the ,holy  
,virgin4 ,and despite the bombardments  
of criticism from without and the       
inculcation of superstitious ignorance  
from within1 the pure-hearted children  
of the ,church have always gone to the  
,holy ,mother for their comfort2 and    
thus the eternal fires of ,truth have   
smouldered beneath the ashes of         
perverted mysticism throughout the ,dark
 ,ages that are gone and the scarcely   
lighter ,dawn that is here4 ,those who  
have eyes to see1 realize that the one  
worth-while thing which the old1        
nearly-blind ,church has been           
unwittingly doing all the time1 has been
 to hold to this central truth of all   
,life--religious1 social1 national1 and 
domestic--the truth that it is only by  
exalting the maternal function of human 

life1 that we can hope to reach the     
saviour of mankind4  ,and1 lest there be
 still some misconception of what we    
consider to be the true saviour of      
mankind1 we will again state1 even as   
the ,church itself states it1 the babe  
of ,bethlehem--the pure ,love between   
one man and one woman2 the twain made   
one1 which is the only saviour that ever
 was or ever will be--the pure          
,christ-child that is born of           
conterpartal union4  ,let those who     
would cling to the idea of an individual
 man1 born in a city called ,bethlehem  
as the saviour of the world1 remember   
that even so1 the city derived its name 
from the word1 bethel1 meaning a pure   
white stone1 rounded at the top1 in     
exact imitation of the omphalos of      
,apollo1 in the temple of ,delphi4 ,and 
when the shock of his discovery has     
somewhat subsided1 and his prejudices   
have been swallowed up in a desire for  
the whole ,truth1 let him remember also 
that this central idea has been the     

foundation of all religious rites since 
time began2 and instead of feeling that 
the whole fabric of ,christianity has   
been rent by the light of scientific    
discovery1 he will see that it has      
merely been revealed1 and the revelation
 will prove to him that ,truth is the   
most beautiful1 the most spiritual and  
the most satisfying thing in life1      
because the ,truth is that ,perfect     
,love is the only passport to immortal  
bliss4 ,no one can withhold ,heaven from
 us1 if we have this perfect love4      
,thus the essentials of ,christianity   
are the essentials of every other       
religious system2 and the essentials    
are3 ,love is the ,one true and only    
,god2 and ,sex is the form in which this
 ,bi-une ,god appears2 according to our 
individual and collective reverence for 
this bi-une ,god1 will be our spiritual 
development4  ,we do not reverence sex  
when we cheapen it by dissipation2 or   
when we abandon it as unclean and       
unworthy and unholy2 both attitudes are 

abnormal1 and unbalanced4  ,spiritual   
consciousness aims at equilibrium4 ,the 
perfectly balanced person is equally    
developed on all planes2 the perfectly  
balanced individual1 in sufficient      
numbers1 will produce a balanced and    
therefore a healthy social organization2
 and a balanced and healthy-minded race 
of beings will result in a balanced     
sphere2 this fact is foreshadowed by the
 postulate which ,science is now        
considering1 to wit3 the earth's axis   
may be straightened1 and1 if so1 a      
uniform temperature will prevail on this
 globe4  ,returning to a consideration  
of the subjects which head this chapter1
 we find it necessary to clear the      
ground a little1 in regard to a         
definition of words4  ,the word         
continence should apply to the act of   
self-restraint in the matter of the     
emotions1 desires1 and passions1 whether
 of the sex-passion or the passion of   
anger1 avarice1 or gluttony4 ,the word  
has come to mean1 in many cases1 the    

total abstinence from the sex-relation1 
because of the general idea which has   
prevailed1 that any indulgence of       
sex-love was a confession of weakness4  
,in fact1 our modern ideas regarding    
this subject are so chaotic and so      
manifestly paradoxical that they are    
absurd4  ,on the one hand we have a     
tradition that motherhood is a beautiful
 and holy thing2 on the other1 we regard
 the sex-relation1 per se1 as an        
indecent thing1 or at best as a weakness
 of the flesh4  ,we have the obvious    
demonstration that creation is possible 
only because of the conjunction of the  
two sexes1 and yet we are taught that   
sex-love is something which is permitted
 to us in this lower state of our being1
 and denied in heaven1 and at the same  
time we are told that ,god creates      
everything1 and ,god dwells in ,heaven1 
where there is no such polluting sin as 
sex-love4  ,we certainly do need        
balance4  ,the word chastity conveys to 
the mind 7and this is not confined to   

the undeveloped person1 but is general7 
the idea of a woman who is devoid of the
 sex-impulse4 ,chastity1 like the word  
virtue1 suggests to our minds no        
relationship to the character1 or inner 
nature of a person2 it has come to be   
applied to the physical anatomy1 and we 
are not surprised when we realize that  
the word is seldom used in connection   
with the male4 ,it is strictly a female 
attribute--nay1 we may almost say1      
organ4  ,if a woman1 for any reason     
whatsoever1 whether through lack of     
opportunity2 through hereditary causes2 
or through repression1 or--which occurs 
more frequently--as a commercial        
expediency1 believing that her person   
will thus bring more in the matrimonial 
market--if1 as we say1 for any reason1  
however sordid1 a woman escapes bodily  
sex-contact1 she is called chaste and   
her virtue is extolled4  ,this is1 of   
course1 not a far cry from the ancient  
days when a bridegroom had the right to 
turn the bride away from his door1      

should the evidence of her virginity be 
lacking2 whereupon the poor creature was
 stoned to death1 a sacrifice on the    
altar of ,egoism1 the arch-enemy of both
 sexes4  ,and although it seems a long1 
long time from that day to this1 we may 
look back over the ,ages1 and see the   
thread unbroken1 connecting the ,past   
with the ,present2 uniting the women of 
those days with their sisters of today2 
and we find the answer to this far-off  
outrage upon the spiritual function of  
sex1 in the horrors of our white        
slavery1 among which horrors1 the       
greatest is not alone the barter and    
sale of that which should be recognized 
as sacred1 but the perversions1 the     
deceptions and the subterfuges which it 
entails4 ,one instance1 related by a    
trained nurse who had been in attendance
 upon a girl sixteen years of age1 will 
suffice to illustrate this4 ,the girl1  
encouraged by her mother1 related with  
amusement and satisfaction1 how the     
child had sold her virtue on seven      

different occasions1 procuring for the  
same1 proven by the requisite evidences1
 sums which were considered quite       
exorbitant in view of the fact that the 
market was always over-crowded with     
similar sales4  ,thus1 the law of supply
 and demand is ever preserved2 and human
 beings keep right on selling their     
royal birthright for a mess of pottage2 
inviting disease1 decay and death when  
they might have glorious1 blissful life4
  ,mankind has failed to look for virtue
 in the interior nature2 failed to look 
for beauty of soul1 being ever ready to 
pay the highest price for the           
counterfeit1 and the result is that a   
practice of mutual deception has been   
the rule4  ,some years ago1 ,thomas     
,hardy wrote a story about a girl in the
 wretched environment of middle-class   
,england4 ,he called it the story of a  
pure woman1 and his appraisal of the    
heroine as a pure woman brought out a   
storm of reproach and horrified         
criticism1 particularly from the clergy1

 because it chanced that this poor girl 
had given birth to a child out of       
wedlock2 and notwithstanding that the   
author made it quite clear that she had 
been the victim of circumstances and    
coercion1 the act itself condemned her  
to unchastity in the eyes of the        
clerical critics4  ,when we contemplate 
the attitude which religious systems    
have ever held toward women1 we are     
amazed that the ,church has been upheld 
almost wholly by the female sex4 ,the   
fact is accountable on one hypothesis   
only3 that of the spiritual insight1    
which recognized in the story of the    
,holy ,mother and the ,child the ,one   
primordial1 and indestructible key to   
salvation--the birth of the god-man     
through the recognition of the purity   
and joy of the perfect sex-union4  ,but1
 notwithstanding the medieval trend of  
religious mysticism 7there is a         
religious mysticism and a scientific    
mysticism7 which seemed to regard all   
human love as a weakness1 when not      

actually sinful as in sex-love1 it is   
evident that sexual love1 in its        
emotional1 or psychic aspect1 was at the
 root of the ecstacies which are so     
ardently described in ecclesiastical    
history as evidences of saintliness4    
,if1 instead of indignantly denying this
 fact1 as though it were profane        
criticism of the saints1 defenders of   
the ,theological view of mysticism would
 calmly consider and accept the         
evidence1 they would be able to infuse  
into the creeds1 the vitality which they
 so lack4  ,the lives of the saints1 in 
so far as they relate to trance and     
ecstatic visions1 must1 sooner or later 
meet one of two fates4 ,either they will
 be analyzed and presented1 with the    
reverence that is due the subject1 as   
proofs of the spiritual function of     
sex-love2 or they must be relegated to  
the position to which the ,church       
assigns all sexual desire--that of      
eroticism and innate and ineradicable   
depravity4  ,viewed in the light in     

which ,theology has held the sex        
relation1 the paroxysms which are       
ascribed to ,st4 ,catherine of ,sienna1 
and to the ,holy ,mechthild and other   
saints1 have in them something decidedly
 obnoxious2 while1 if we take the       
premise that these saints1 by virtue of 
prayer1 aspiration1 and intended        
sacrifice of the mortal self to an      
ideal1 transmuted their sex-nature from 
the physical to the spiritual1 then     
indeed1 we have an approach to a mighty 
truth1 which is at once both explanatory
 and satisfying4 ,st4 ,catherine is     
referred to as the mystic bride2 and    
,jesus ,christ1 to whom she was espoused
 7using the terminology which the       
,church prefers1 as suggesting a less   
physical union than the word married7   
was the bride-groom2 more than that2 she
 declared that she was married with a   
ring1 set with precious stones2 just    
like any other betrothal or wedding     
ring4  ,always in these recitals we find
 the phraseology which lovers employ    

when exalting the loved one above the   
world4 ,the term ,my ,beloved is        
singularly universal1 and seems to      
spring involuntarily to the lips of the 
lover when his love is of the quality   
that reverences2 adores2 and exalts its 
object4 ,and it is equally foreign to   
the lips of the dilettante lover4  ,to  
their credit be it said1 the love which 
the saints developed within themselves1 
by dint of their attempts to exalt      
celibacy in an age of sexual profligacy1
 is none the less human love2 it is     
human love spiritualized1 exalted1 and  
transmuted from the plane of the animal 
to that of the soul4 ,this transmutation
 is in fact responsible for the         
intensity1 the absorbing power of the   
love which thrilled them into such an   
ecstacy that in most instances they     
became lost in the bliss of the emotions
 excited by the inward flow of their sex
 nature1 and were totally unfitted to   
take part in the outer1 or so-called    
practical life4  ,such1 for example1 was

 ,saint ,teresa1 of whom ,william       
,james1 in his ,varieties of ,religious 
,experience1 says3 ,her idea of religion
 seems to have been that of an endless  
amatory flirtation--if one may say so   
without irreverence--between the devotee
 and the ,deity4 ,although this estimate
 of ,st4 ,theresa's saintliness will    
doubtless be shocking to the people who 
think they are pious1 we take an        
optimistic view of it1 and suggest that 
the saint's idea of religion is far more
 satisfying than that usually presented 
as saintliness4 ,st4 ,theresa1 like most
 of the female saints1 became the bride 
of ,christ--the man ,jesus1 the ,christ1
 let it be remembered4  ,st4 ,gertrude1 
a ,benedictine nun of the ,thirteenth   
,century1 gave herself up so wholly to  
this inward contemplation2 to fasting1  
prayer1 and withdrawal from the outer to
 the inner life1 that she lived as the  
bride of ,god1 in such daily contact    
with ,him as would fitly describe any   
love-mated honeymoon of today4          

,according to her testimony ,god        
indulged in such language and caresses1 
and intimacies1 kisses and compliments  
as would satisfy any woman married to   
her ideal lover4  ,in the case of ,st4  
,louis of ,gonzaga1 it is significant   
that he selected the ,virgin ,mary as   
the object of his adoration and         
consecrated to her1 his own virginity2  
and we read how burning with love1 he   
made his vow of perpetual chastity4 ,in 
consequence of this vow1 he was never   
tempted as was ,st4 ,anthony1 by visions
 of beautiful women4  ,here again we    
have the love of the male for the       
female4 ,if it were not so1 ,st4 ,louis 
may well have chosen ,jesus1 or ,joseph1
 or ,john1 as the object of his         
devotional contemplation2 and ,st4      
,catherine1 and ,theresa1 and ,mechthild
 might have paid their homage to the    
,virgin ,mary4  ,jeanne of the ,cross   
held constant converse with her guardian
 angel1 who by the way was a beautiful  
youth1 more brilliant than the sun and  

with a crown of glory on his head4  ,st4
 ,frances was inseparable from her      
angel1 whom she loved with extravagant  
and blissful devotion1 and whom she also
 described as a young man of such       
radiant beauty and purity that he melted
 her soul4  ,the truth is that1 in      
seeking to escape from the sin of human 
love1 as seen in the world1 in the union
 of the sexes1 they touched the very    
main-spring of their sex-nature1        
intensifying to a degree unknown to the 
merely sense-conscious person1 the      
ecstatic bliss of spiritual sex-union4  
,naturally the question will arise as to
 whether these saints really came into  
contact with their spiritual mates in   
these paroxysms of holy fervor1 and if  
so1 why did the vision of the ,christ so
 frequently appear to them and not alone
 the vision of some other being8  ,the  
answer is found in the fact that        
spiritual experiences must be           
interpreted through the channel of the  
outer mind1 which in these instances was

 obsessed by the thought implanted by   
,medieval ,theology1 that human love is 
sinful4 ,it may be questioned whether1  
even though the visions did relate to   
some person other than the members of   
the ,holy ,family1 the fact would have  
been admitted since it would have been  
attributed to unworthiness on the part  
of the saint4  ,they were practically   
compelled to include ,god and ,christ in
 their ecstacies to prove their         
respectability4  ,one phrase1 commonly  
employed to describe the kind of love   
which flooded the soul in these saintly 
ecstacies1 is particularly applicable to
 the effects of spiritual sex-union1 as 
described by those who have experienced 
counterpartal union1 and which          
,swedenborg so constantly emphasizes in 
his recital of conjugal delights4 ,this 
phrase is melting love4 ,it is a feeling
 of melting or merging into the other's 
being1 until there seems to be but one  
person1 formed by the two souls4 ,in    
fact1 it is union2 whereas the lesser1  

or we may say the lower1 phase1 of the  
sex-relation is at best but contact4    
,if this view of the trances and        
ecstacies described in the lives of the 
saints1 be repulsive to our readers1 we 
can only say that we are sorry for our  
readers4 ,they have imbibed the spirit  
of the ,dark ,ages1 which regarded human
 love as sinful1 overlooking the fact   
that all we may know of the love of     
,god1 is by analogous comparison to what
 we know of human love4  ,if human love 
be sinful1 by logical deduction we would
 inevitably arrive at the conclusion    
that the universe is all sinful4 ,in    
which event1 the very word itself would 
have lost its significance4  ,the       
objectionable part of the orthodox view 
of the effects of saintliness lies in   
the realization that neither the saints 
themselves1 nor the ,church which       
perpetuates their recitals1 had any     
conception of the real situation1 so    
evident to the enlightened and          
unprejudiced reader4 ,and if this view  

of saintly ecstacies1 postulating the   
transmutation of sex-force into         
spiritual channels1 be objectionable1   
what can be said of the only other view 
which is possible in the light of the   
evidence submitted8  ,our ideas of what 
constitutes chastity need revising1 else
 we must needs decide that chastity is  
more a vice than a virtue4  ,for        
example1 consider the character of a    
mother of the self-sacrificing1 noble   
type1 devoting her life to the welfare  
of the human family2 interesting herself
 in all the problems that affect the    
generations to come2 patient2 sweet and 
wise4 ,compare her with an unmarried    
girl whose body is immune from contact  
with one of the opposite sex1 but whose 
mind is bent upon self1 and             
self-adornment2 upon the necessity of   
capturing a wealthy husband1 as a means 
of this self-gratification1 without     
regard to any sentiment or even common  
affection4 ,who is the more chaste8     
,coventry ,patmore says3    ,virgins are

 they before the ,lord1     ,whose souls
 are pure4 ,the vestal fire   ,is not1  
as some mis-read the ,word1     ,by     
,marriage quenched1 but burns the       
higher4  ,if purity of soul were        
synonymous with celibacy1 the entire    
constantly-copulating cosmos would have 
long since been demolished2 but despite 
the mistaken attitude of religious      
systems toward the divine function of   
sex1 ,humanity is reaching a higher and 
purer conception of love4 ,as we        
approach a higher type of civilization1 
the broader1 deeper1 and more intense   
becomes our capacity to love4 ,the more 
spiritual we become1 the more vital is  
our love-nature1 and our love-nature is 
grounded in sex4 ,let us not imagine    
that spiritual love is less sexual than 
is physical love4 ,spiritual love is    
physical love1 plus all the other phases
 of love4  ,the real objection to sex   
love on the physical plane is not based 
upon its strength1 but upon its         
weakness4 ,if it be nothing deeper than 

an attraction of chemical affinities    
generated by physical activities1 it has
 no reservoir from which to draw its    
supply4 ,it is like the electrical wire 
that is short circuited1 it expends     
itself in one spasmodic combustion4     
,true spirituality is attained by a     
process of addition4 ,the common and    
erroneous idea of spiritual attainment  
involves a process of subtraction4  ,we 
need go no further than to review the   
processes in the external world of today
 to understand this fact of the         
inclusiveness of the spiritual life1 in 
contradistinction to the generally      
accepted idea of exclusiveness which is 
attached to a contemplation of the      
so-called spiritual4  ,all our          
activities are now carried on upon a    
gigantic scale4 ,where formerly a little
 stream supplied the water to the mill1 
we now harness the invisible and        
apparently inexhaustible forces of      
electricity2 where formerly commerce was
 a system of bartering between two      

single individuals1 it is now a huge    
network involving millions of persons4  
,everything teaches us the lesson of    
inclusiveness1 as we approach a more    
spiritualized ideal of life4 ,we are    
uniting2 merging2 drawing within4  ,the 
,centripetal force of the planet itself1
 corresponding to the female pole of the
 magnet1 is today the active principle  
in external life4 ,the machinist knows  
this when he is compelled to avoid the  
suction currents of electrical power4   
,cosmic reaction has set in1 and union  
between complementaries is the result4  
,applying this truth to individual human
 life1 and we have what8  ,counterpartal
 ,sex-union4                            
,,chapter ,,vii                         
,,soul-,,union3 ,,where ,,will ,,it     
,,lead8   ,we have heard much in recent 
years of affinities1 and soul-mates1 and
 we are likely to hear much more in the 
future4 ,so much that is unsavory and   
sensational is associated with these two
 words1 that we almost hesitate to      

employ them2 but that is always the way 
with ,fear4 ,it builds a high wall      
between us and ,truth1 and dares us to  
scale it4  ,we accept the challenge4    
,to begin with1 the words are not       
synonymous1 although frequently used as 
such4 ,affinities are based upon mutual 
interests2 mutual tastes and appetites2 
mutual stages of development2 but these 
stages of development may be            
sense-conscious only2 or they may be of 
a highly intellectual order4 ,whatever  
their basis of mutuality1 they tend to  
attract upon that plane4 ,whenever this 
affinity1 established by virtue of      
mutual tastes1 is on the sense-plane    
only--that is1 when it is because two   
persons both like their roast-beef rare2
 or their whiskey diluted2 or their wine
 iced--we are apt to find the result in 
a mistaken idea of sexual affinity1     
which wears itself out for the reasons  
already stated1 because there is no     
reservoir from which to draw4 ,the      
chemistry of the body changes with time 

and emotional experiences4 ,affinity of 
bodily contact only1 resulting from a   
congeniality of sense-appetites1 is     
therefore necessarily short lived4      
,affinity of intellect is much more     
lasting1 because it approaches a state  
higher in the ascent to the spiritual   
center of the cosmos4  ,thought is the  
parent of speech1 or of any external    
appeal to the senses4 ,back of all      
objectivity is the thought that molded  
it2 but back of thought is desire2 and  
back of desire is design--cosmic design 
we may say--expressing itself           
discretively2 in individuals4           
,affinities that are based upon         
intellectual similarities are of a finer
 nature and generally more lasting than 
those of sense-conscious attraction     
only2 and it is no uncommon thing to    
find two persons of the opposite sex    
enjoying a protracted friendship or     
preference for each others' society     
which deceives the average on-looker    
into thinking that there is also sexual 

affinity1 when as a matter of fact there
 may never have been any thought of such
 relationship4  ,a few brilliant women  
in former times1 notably ,madame de     
,stael1 or ,margaret ,fuller1 have      
enjoyed the attentions and apparent     
devotion of men for many years without  
having entered into any more intimate   
relationship with them4 ,but these      
examples have been few in the past1 and 
have been much commented upon4 ,in the  
present1 such desirable companionship is
 becoming much more common and a woman  
may now be seen twice with the same man 
without having the neighbors speculating
 as to a suitable name for the baby4    
,more and more1 as women become freed   
from the necessity to settle themselves 
in marriage1 we find evidences of this  
intellectual affinity between the sexes2
 and more and more1 as we get away from 
the old thought that a man has but one  
desire1 that of sexual intercourse1 and 
a woman but one motive1 that of         
enslaving man through his sexual        

appetite1 we will find that men and     
women will meet on the plane of         
intellectual affinity and not be driven 
by gossip of outsiders1 or by the force 
of the race-thought in their own minds1 
into seeking to spoil such companionship
 by a matrimonial alliance1 when nature 
did not intend it to be so4  ,a number  
of years ago1 when even the little      
freedom which human beings now accord   
each other in this matter was denied the
 struggling sexes1 a certain man and    
woman1 who were intellectual companions1
 married4 ,he was a writer2 she was a   
physician2 which is evidence in itself  
of a degree of intellectual power not so
 common at that time as now2 she was    
moreover an unusual woman in many ways4 
,they parted after a month of married   
life and to the horror and scandal of   
the entire community1 remained friends4 
,the scandal reached the climax of      
disapproval and shocked morality when   
the man1 married again1 continued his   
friendship with his former wife and     

later1 when a baby came to the couple1  
the ex-wife and mutual friend was the   
attending physician4  ,the old idea of  
matrimony held that the husband and wife
 must be yoked together1 so that neither
 one could exercise any individual      
predilection or choice of friends1 or   
recreation1 or taste or desire4 ,and    
this is still the average idea of a     
successful marriage4 ,it is an idea that
 is not confined to the ignorant1 and   
the narrow-minded4 ,it is the attitude  
of society at large1 though upon what   
argument such an idea is based1 must be 
left to the perverted imagination4      
,presumably it is because of that       
colossal egotism which insists upon     
personal ownership4 ,one would expect   
this tendency to own each other to have 
died with the death of the institution  
of slavery1 but it still exists1 and as 
we have already observed1 among those   
who sit in the seats of the mighty as   
well as among the ignorant4  ,a couple  
who had married on the ground of        

intellectual affinity lived together    
most congenially for a period of twelve 
years1 although they agreed that sexual 
affinity was lacking in their           
relationship4 ,they agreed that there   
was another phase of mating1 and that   
should either come to the point where   
freedom was desirable1 it would be given
 without resentment or anger4 ,they both
 decided1 that perfect candor and       
honesty with each other on this score   
was a higher type of civilization than  
that which prevails where mutual deceit 
is the rule4  ,true to their compact1   
when the wife met the one whom she      
believed to be the one man who answered 
the call of her soul1 the husband gave  
her up1 retaining her friendship1 and   
the memory of an intellectual           
companionship unmarred by the horrors of
 dispute and deceit and disruption4 ,but
 he incurred the severest criticism from
 ,society1 which is as yet composed of  
the animal-man1 rather than the man-god1
 and the animal-man 7meaning woman as   

well7 knows no higher code of morality  
than that which he vaingloriously terms 
defense of his honor4 ,by exactly what  
process of reasoning a man can imagine  
his honor defended or appeased by       
shooting his rival1 is1 we admit1 beyond
 our power to fathom4 ,but such is the  
basis of the unwritten law1 in which    
civilized man vents his remaining       
savagery4  ,affinity-marriages1 then1   
are not synonymous with soul-mating4    
,and while we contend that affinity     
marriages1 based upon at least some     
degree of mutuality1 are a step higher  
in social development than were the     
alliances of the old regime1 where a    
man's social or domestic exigencies     
required a wife or a housekeeper1 or    
both-in-one2 where woman must marry     
whomsoever asked her1 or be pitied and  
scorned as an old maid1 still           
affinity-marriages are not the final    
union1 and must go through an           
evolutionary phase4  ,affinity-marriages
 are eligible to disruption4 ,happily1  

we trust1 these disruptions will in the 
course of time be devoid of hatred and  
mutual recriminations and abuse4        
,certainly they will be1 as they evolve 
from the plane of sense-consciousness to
 that of intellectual affinities4       
,moreover1 they stand a much better     
chance of permanency than has maintained
 during the past1 before the word       
affinity was heard so frequently as it  
is now4  ,the general impression is     
abroad in the land1 that it is only     
since women became economically         
independent that disruption of the      
marriage bonds has become so general4   
,it is true that divorces are much more 
frequent since women have become1 to a  
great extent1 economically independent2 
but that only means that the parties to 
the marriage have been set free4 ,the   
disruptions are not more1 it is only the
 evidences4 ,and it is at the evidence  
of marital unhappiness that all the     
criticism is directed4  ,if the         
criticism were directed against the     

condition that divorce tells us of1     
instead of against the divorce itself1  
the first aid to the injured would be to
 establish a social order wherein an    
equal moral standard for both sexes     
should be the rule1 and where a mother  
is recognized1 and respected and honored
 in the name of motherhood1 whether she 
is a wife or not4  ,this suggestion will
 of course be met with a shocked gasp   
from many4 ,the cry that ,society will  
be disorganized and our moral code      
become chaotic will go up from the      
self-constituted keepers of public      
morality4 ,but is our morality so tender
 that it needs protection8 ,are our     
social conditions so ideal that they    
cannot be improved8 ,if they are1 then  
nothing can besmirch them4 ,if they are 
not1 they must first be demolished1     
before they are rebuilt4  ,the limited  
mortal mind is always terribly afraid of
 a change4 ,not one single improvement  
has ever been suggested1 from mechanics 
to morals1 that has not been met with   

that ever-ready fear-thought1 that the  
whole universe is going to the eternal  
bow-wows1 if the slightest change in    
established institutions is made4 ,and  
despite it all1 we go on year after     
year1 improving4 ,self-improvement is   
the watch-word of the ,century4 ,if     
self-improvement1 then social           
improvement4 ,mankind is still in the   
making1 as far as external conditions   
are concerned4  ,the complaint goes up  
from every side1 that women refuse      
motherhood4 ,girls who have been        
carefully reared1 brought up in the most
 orthodox movement1 are heard to openly1
 unashamed1 announce their intention of 
finding a rich husband and not1         
emphatically1 not having any children4  
,may this not be ,nature's revenge upon 
our inhuman treatment of girls who      
become mothers without first becoming   
wives8  ,we are wont to refer to        
unmarried mothers as unfortunates and   
ruined4 ,but in what does the misfortune
 consist1 and wherein are they ruined8  

,is a woman ever unfortunate if she     
gives birth to a child because she has  
loved1 and because she loves the child8 
,is she ruined in any way except that   
she becomes the target for our          
inhumanity2 our well-nigh unforgivable  
stupidity8  ,the world1 and especially  
women1 owe a debt of gratitude to a     
certain famous woman who1 by her force  
of character2 her defiant self-respect  
in the face of social criticism1 because
 she had a child and no husband1 has    
wrung from the unwilling public the     
highest place accorded any actress in   
this or any previous age4 ,this artist's
 well-known reply to an openly expressed
 criticism of her is worthy of          
perpetuation4 ,ah1 so6 she said1 true ,i
 have a son and no husband1 but you     
women have husbands and lovers1 and no  
children6  ,we would not have it        
understood that we commend this woman's 
example1 and criticise that of the woman
 to whom she referred4 ,we do not regard
 child-bearing as the end and aim of    

woman's mission4 ,it has been said that 
the first duty of ,man is to perpetuate 
the species1 but observation should     
convince us that in all too many        
instances the first duty of the         
individual would be to refrain from such
 a crime against posterity4  ,we neither
 criticise nor advise the adoption of   
the position of a husbandless mother2   
nor that of the women who are childless 
wives4 ,we endorse any woman's          
insistence upon her right to            
self-respect2 and we insist that a      
better civilization cannot come without 
permitting the greatest degree of       
personal liberty in matters pertaining  
to the sex-relation1 and1 above and     
beyond all1 without conceding to the    
unmarried mother the same respect that  
we accord to the married one1 when she  
is otherwise worthy of our respect4 ,it 
certainly takes courage for a           
defenseless woman to bear a fatherless  
child1 in a hypocritical world4  ,the   
normal woman does not live who would not

 rather be safely and happily married to
 the man whom her soul tells her exists 
somewhere in the universe1 than to be   
battling with the problem of existence1 
alone4 ,when she is so married1 we need 
not fear that the marriage will be      
disrupted4 ,until she is so married1 no 
power on earth can1 and no power in     
,heaven will1 prevent the disruptions1  
although man's laws may temporarily     
obstruct the evidence of such           
disruption4  ,what we have already said 
will make it clear1 that our contention 
is that affinities are not necessarily  
soul-mates2 that1 in fact1 we may have  
many and various kinds of affinities1   
but no one can possibly have more than  
one soul-mate4  ,mates are two entities 
composing a pair4 ,they are the two     
halves that make a whole4 ,unlike what  
we know of affinities1 they are not     
merely similar2 nor yet opposite1 so    
that they attract each other because of 
curiosity or dissimiliarity4  ,they     
belong to each other because together   

they complete a perfect balance4 ,each  
supplies in the exact proportion        
required for balance the qualities      
lacking in the other4  ,in the event of 
such union1 instinctive procreation will
 cease1 and re-generation will begin4   
,they will consciously beget souls1     
instead of merely providing bodies for  
souls to manifest upon this external    
plane of consciousness4  ,bodily contact
 is not essential to this phase of      
sex-union1 because the real conjunction 
is between the interior natures2 and the
 interior nature exists independently of
 the physical organism4  ,already the   
race-thought is beginning to realize    
interiorly4 ,this is manifest in the    
daily press2 in music and drama2 and in 
all the avenues of the senses4 ,that    
intangible1 elusive but potential thing 
called character forms the gist of      
editorial advice4 ,everywhere we note a 
tendency to look below the appearance of
 things1 and to fathom the depths of    
psychological analysis4 ,for the first  

time in centuries the race-thought seeks
 the underlying cause for specific      
effects1 instead of1 as heretofore1     
being satisfied to deal with effects    
only1 suppressing those that are        
unpleasant and extolling those that seem
 agreeable4  ,the scientist expresses it
 thus3 ,nature is giving up her secrets 
to man4 ,the metaphysician puts it this 
way3 ,the soul of man is unveiling1 and 
soon we shall know each other in ,truth4
 ,the religionist has long looked for a 
time when1 as prophesied by ,st4 ,paul1 
who was above all things a              
spiritually-conscious person1 we shall  
see each other face to face2 not as now 
through a glass1 darkly4  ,this tendency
 to get behind the scenes as it were1 to
 penetrate the crust of mere outward    
semblance1 and to reveal the interior   
nature1 may be seen even in the fashions
 of our clothes4 ,despite thunders of   
denunciation from the self-constituted  
keepers of our morals1 who are not yet  
free from the bondage of traditional    

ideas of virtue and respectability1     
women have insisted upon freedom of the 
body in dress until at last the         
uncorseted1 short-skirted1 thinly-clad  
woman excites little adverse comment4   
,the fact has at last established itself
 that the female form has legs4  ,this  
fact was only half suspected before2 men
 have always wanted to see exactly what 
was beneath those long flowing skirts2  
and woman has always known that she     
possessed at least one trump card1 in   
the game of enslaving man to become what
 modern slang has so aptly labeled her  
meal-ticket4 ,she could always keep him 
guessing as to whether or not she had   
legs2 and the average man1 be it known1 
possesses a fund of curiosity far in    
excess of that which is proverbially    
ascribed to woman4 ,men have been known 
to pay the highest price1 even to       
donning the matrimonial yoke1 to satisfy
 their curiosity4 ,women have always    
known this1 and the worldly wise mother 
has besought her marriageable daughter  

to keep her skirts well over her ankles 
if she hoped to secure a man as a       
permanent banker6 ,it does sound crude  
expressed thus1 but this is the basis   
upon which at least nine-tenths of the  
respectable marriages of society are    
consummated4 ,and this is the standard  
which the short-sighted keepers of      
public morals would have us retain4     
,they would force women to act as though
 their bodies are vile4 ,they would keep
 the mind encumbered with the corpse of 
an idea of modesty1 from which the      
spirit has long since fled4 ,the spirit 
has fled from it because it was a false 
idea of modesty2 because it was founded 
upon the idea that woman was an         
instrument of the devil himself1 and    
that to look upon her naked form was in 
itself wicked1 and only permitted to    
poor man as a concession to his own     
innate defilement4  ,the good ,church at
 one time1 not so far distant1 refused  
to admit women to the communion table in
 the holy sacrament4 ,a fine chance has 

any sacrament of being holy1 with one   
half of it missing6  ,the old idea of   
womanly modesty consisted of blushing   
with shame and embarrassment if by      
chance her ankles became exposed to the 
interested and curious gaze of a male4  
,notwithstanding this ideal of modesty1 
the designing and beguiling female      
managed to arrange just such a          
contretemps every time there was an     
eligible male within sight2 if          
discovered1 she either assumed a look of
 infantile innocence1 or she took the   
opportunity to coax a becoming blush4   
,to be sure1 this does not accurately   
describe all women of the good old days4
 ,there was the other type4  ,nature    
manifests in extremes4 ,there was the   
type1 fitting ancestors to those women  
of to-day who are outraged and shocked  
at the present-day fashions1 which      
actually disclose the fact that women   
are anatomatically endowed with legs and
 hips1 quite in defiance of man's       
inherited predilection for making this  

discovery under conditions that would   
pamper to his satiating sex-appetite4   
,they1 poor creatures1 were dreadfully  
ashamed of being women1 and they did all
 that was possible to conceal the fact4 
,they1 doubtless1 would gladly have     
amputated their legs1 if the ministers  
had so decreed1 and they apologized to  
the world every time an unforseen       
circumstance uncovered a portion of     
these offensive legs4 ,in fact1 they    
denied the existence of said members1   
and alluded to them tentatively and with
 modest hesitation1 as limbs4  ,but1    
some will exclaim1 we cannot see any    
possible connection between a           
regenerated race1 and a fashion which   
permits the display of the female figure
 upon the public streets1 where men who 
are as yet un-regenerated1 and          
licentious1 may leer and pass vile      
remarks1 and suggest lustful thoughts4  
,few can see any connection between our 
so-called practical1 everyday life1 and 
the spiritual life4 ,they look upon the 

spiritual life as something remote2     
something in the dim and ever and ever  
distant future4 ,the spiritual life is  
supposed to be so negative that we      
postpone living it1 as long as we       
possibly can2 and whereas the human     
family has prayed and prayed1 for ,lo6  
these many ages3 ,thy kingdom come upon 
earth1 they apparently have not had the 
slightest idea that ,god would take them
 at their word4  ,they are like the old 
darky who called upon de ,lawd to strike
 him dead if he was not telling the     
truth1 when as a matter of fact he was  
lying roundly4 ,at that moment a        
bricklayer on the building above where  
,rastus was standing1 dropped a brick1  
which struck the old darkey on the head1
 and he exclaimed ,what's de matter1    
good ,lawd1 caint you'all take a joke8  
,the ,kingdom of ,god1 from all records1
 whether orthodox or heterodox1 has been
 described as the abode of angels2 and  
angels have been pictured as nearly nude
 as our silly morality would permit4 ,no

 one has as yet suggested that we compel
 the angels to wear hoopskirts1 although
 ,september ,morn has been compelled1 by
 police regulation1 to don a sweater4   
,the spiritual life awaits our          
cognizance1 just behind the transparent 
veil of our limited mortal              
consciousness4 ,this is the message of  
the unveiling of the female form4 ,this 
is the time of woman's revealment of    
true modesty2 true ideals4 ,the ,female 
,principle1 representing the spiritual  
element in nature1 hitherto shut in2    
covered up2 hidden--is coming out4  ,men
 must learn to be able to look upon the 
female form without spasms of either    
lustful desires2 or contemptuous        
indifference4  ,there was a time when   
the presence of a female office-force in
 the business section of a city was the 
signal for unwarranted familiarity on   
the part of some of the male members of 
a corporation4 ,there was a time1 when  
women first invaded the ranks of the    
down-town business centers1 that a      

woman's appointment to a responsible    
position rested upon her claims to      
feminine attractiveness4 ,now1 the only 
question asked is1 ,is she efficient8   
,that which she is1 in her interior     
nature1 is the final test of her power4 
,when men have become inured to the     
knowledge1 so long concealed1 that women
 have legs and that there is no more    
seductiveness in them than in their     
faces1 the love of man for woman will   
undergo the same evolution that his     
estimate of her business efficiency has 
undergone4 ,he will judge her by what   
she is in her interior nature2 and his  
sexual desires1 now manifested          
distractedly in mere love of the female1
 will become concentrated in love of the
 one woman to whom his soul turns in    
irresistible sex-attraction1 as         
unerringly as the needle turns to the   
pole to which it is magnetized4  ,is    
this fact so unmanifest8 ,does not      
everything point to it8  ,a few years   
ago1 a man and a woman could not pass a 

day together in mutual conversation1 and
 interest1 without encroachment upon the
 one emotion which they were supposed to
 hold in common--sexual attraction4     
,that was indeed the whole sum and      
substance of communication between the  
two sexes1 if we may except the rare    
instances which history has made much   
of1 because of their rarity--women of   
the ,french salons1 who have become     
famous for their wit and beauty1 in     
neither of which attributes did they    
outstrip the average self-supporting    
woman of today4  ,but custom has slowly1
 but perceptibly1 established the       
possibility of a frank and              
non-sentimental companionship between   
the male and the female1 and the result 
is that both are much more clear as to  
the true character of their sentiments  
toward each other4 ,neither is blinded  
by the force of undifferentiated        
sex-attraction4  ,there must be some    
specific basis of mutual love2 hence we 
have the vogue of the affinity1 and by  

the term is instantly recognized a      
special force of attraction1 independent
 of undifferentiated sex alone4 ,it is  
known that there is at least an         
assumption of an interior attraction1   
and we insist that affinity marriages1  
however incomplete as yet1 are still    
superior in motive to that of mere      
marriage1 where it is a case of a male  
and a female1 united by propinquity2    
family considerations2 commercial       
interests2 class association2 or what   
not4  ,affinities at least have the     
grace to presuppose a special           
sex-attraction4 ,they argue for the     
ultimate goal of special and permanent  
selection1 even if they fail to reach   
it4  ,that there will be many failures  
during the journey from the             
sense-conscious life1 to the            
soul-conscious life1 is a foregone      
conclusion4 ,the pathway of ,love has   
always been a thorny one1 but those who 
are on the high ground may look across  
into the rose-strewn garden1 and know   

that the little god is aiming his arrows
 at the interior nature of those whom he
 would unite4 ,he is not blind4 ,his    
sight is illumined and he sees that the 
soul can unite only with its mate4 ,true
 it is that the course of true love     
never did run smooth1 but let us hope   
that the time is coming when it will be 
less thorny4  ,there are no mismates in 
soul-union4  ,this truth is the secret  
of secrets of the ,hermetics4 ,it is the
 hidden wisdom of the initiates2 the    
alchemical mysteries of the ,ancients4  
,it is told to us in the fairy story of 
the ,sleeping ,princess--a story which  
is found in the folk-lore of every      
country of the globe4 ,it is the        
philosopher's stone1 which when found1  
opens the door to all wisdoms4  ,there  
can be no mismates in soul-union4       
,neither can there be any sexual        
temptation1 or desire outside of this   
union1 when once found4    ,but never   
shall he faint or fall   ,who lists to  
hear1 o'er every fate1   ,the sweeter   

and the higher call             ,of his 
true mate4    ,i hear it wheresoe'er ,i 
rove2   ,she holds me safe from shame or
 sin2   ,the holy temple of her love    
,i worship in4  ,a time when the twain  
shall be virtually1 one flesh and the   
outside as the inside is not a          
chimerical dream4  ,when the physical   
body is as much reverenced as is the    
spiritual2 when in fact1 the soul is    
revealed 7unveiled7 to our mortal       
consciousness2 when the mind has been   
freed from its load of prejudices and   
fears and doubts and belief in sin2 then
 we shall1 indeed1 truly see each other4
  ,we do not see each other now1 unless 
perhaps we have developed that spiritual
 insight which is not blinded by        
appearances1 but which contacts the     
interior nature4 ,but the revealing1 the
 uncovering process has begun4 ,we have 
come to the time so long anticipated2 so
 earnestly promised1 when naked and     
unashamed we should re-enter the lost   
,paradise4  ,well1 the women1 ,god bless

 them1 are as naked as the tender       
morality of our police officials will   
permit and as unashamed as it is        
possible to be with the handicap of a   
puritanical ancestry1 which was so      
evil-minded as to suspect ,god himself  
of sin when ,he formed the wicked body4 
,prudists may howl2 and legislators may 
legislate2 but the course of the ,cosmic
 ,law which would free us and bestow    
upon us ,peace and ,love and ,happiness 
without stint1 has never been stopped1  
although it has been obstructed4  ,let  
us examine some points of the ,hidden   
,wisdom1 in the light of this postulate1
 and see if the conclusion is not       
warranted4                              
,,chapter ,,viii                        
,,the ,,hidden ,,wisdom ,,revealed   ,as
 we have previously observed1 there is  
what may be termed a religious mysticism
 and a scientific mysticism4 ,when      
viewed from the standpoint of the       
unprejudiced seeker1 who finds the truth
 that is in everything1 these two phases

 of mysticism are but photographs of the
 same subject taken from different      
points of view4 ,so1 too1 mysticism     
itself is1 in the final analysis1       
nothing more than a long-distance view  
of science4  ,like the proverbial pot   
and kettle1 which we are told made much 
noise over calling each other black1 we 
find the scientist frequently disdains  
the mystic1 and the mystic may retaliate
 with equal disapproval of the          
scientist's position4 ,both are right1  
each from his point of view4 ,each is   
looking at life from an opposite end of 
the same pole4 ,the scientist looks at  
the effect and the mystic at the cause4 
,in their final calculations they arrive
 at the same conclusion1 although they  
call it by different names4  ,the       
scientist says that everything proceeds 
from the one eternal energy4 ,the mystic
 perceives the spiritual co-existent    
with the external4 ,religious mysticism 
calls it ,god's word made manifest4 ,in 
reference to this definition of         

religious mysticism1 perhaps the        
phraseology used by ,william ,ralph     
,inge1 in his ,christian ,mysticism1 is 
the best possible exposition of the     
position of the religious mystic1 if we 
may separate the two phases4 ,inge says3
 ,religious mysticism may be defined as 
the attempt to realize the presence of  
the living ,god in the soul and in      
nature1 or more generally as the attempt
 to realize in thought and in feeling   
the imminence of the temporal in the    
eternal1 and the eternal in the         
temporal4  ,which is to say exactly what
 the scientific mystic says1 using other
 terminology2 and likewise what the     
physicist says or will ultimately say1  
as his researches lead him into the     
finer and finer realms of discovery4    
,the scientific mystic1 like            
,archimedes1 believes that in order to  
measure the purpose of external         
creation1 he must base his fulcrum      
somewhere beyond4  ,the scientific      
mystic1 therefore1 starts from the      

center of the ,circle2 from the crux of 
creation2 and he finds the ,x1 which is 
the hypothetical base of algebraical    
science--the unknown quantity of which  
sex is the symbol4 ,reasoning from      
effect back to cause and from cause     
forward to effect the mystic finds the  
equation complete1 perfect1 and likewise
 simple2 but it is simple only after we 
have deciphered it4 ,like the prize     
puzzles which are designed to exercise  
the inductive faculties1 mysticism1 when
 we have not the key1 is a most         
tantalizing enigma4 ,most practical     
persons dismiss it with the same        
superficial idea that they entertain in 
regard to puzzles1 saying it is only a  
puzzle--utterly ignoring the value of   
exercising the inductive reasoning      
faculties4  ,fairy stories are popularly
 supposed to be for the entertainment   
and amusement of children4 ,in reality  
they are the universal language of      
symbolism4 ,there is not a single fairy 
story which has not been handed down    

from generation to generation1 and1 what
 is more suggestive1 each story is told 
with astonishing lack of variation1 in  
every tongue and throughout every nation
 on this earth4  ,the stories involving 
the turning of men into animals and     
their final restoration to human form1  
as a reward for some service1 some      
sacrifice1 typifies the two-fold nature 
of ,man4 ,he may live in his animal1 or 
exterior nature2 or he may develop his  
spiritual1 or interior nature2 through  
service2 through unselfish love4 ,our   
limited mortal consciousness is         
responsible for the tendency to         
personify everything1 instead of to     
realize the principles underlying all   
expression4 ,god and the ,devil have    
been the personification of the two     
phases of the principles of ,evolution1 
from animal man to spiritual man4       
,romulus and ,remus have been presented 
as an actual and specific instance of   
twins2 likewise ,castor and ,pollux4    
,almost every child instinctively       

alludes to himself or herself1 as either
 the good little me or the bad little   
me4 ,o1 ,i didn't do that2 it was the   
bad little ,dorothy1 or ,harold1 as the 
case may be1 is the child-like way of   
expressing the innate consciousness that
 there is an interior and an exterior   
nature to all of us4  ,the union of gods
 with mortals1 which forms the gist of  
,mythological tales1 symbolizes the     
god-like and the mortal qualities       
inherent in human nature4 ,mortals      
raised to the abode of the gods2 and the
 gods descended into mortal life2       
symbolize the interchangeability of what
 we term matter and spirit--the power of
 transmutation of the lower into the    
higher life4  ,volumes could be written 
upon the subject1 and we will therefore 
try to confine our reviews to the       
symbolical traditions which deal most   
directly with the relations of the      
sexes4  ,in religious symbology1 the    
story of the ark stands as the supreme  
type of creation1 through the           

conjunction of the sexes4  ,the cherubim
 are1 when all is said and done1 nothing
 more1 nor yet less1 than spiritual     
children--the result of spiritual       
sex-union4  ,and in this later synoptic 
mysticism of the ark of the ,covenant1  
we are informed that every gift within  
the tabernacle is willingly offered4 ,if
 we will but contemplate the volumes of 
wisdom contained within that sentence1  
we cannot fail to conclude that every   
infinitesimal particle of coercion in   
whatsoever shape and form1 individual1  
economic1 ethical1 or religious1 must be
 excluded from the regenerated1 perfect1
 ideal sex-relation2 otherwise we do not
 attain it4  ,if the ,ancients seemed to
 take some of these folk-lore stories   
too literally1 we of this practical age1
 do not take them literally enough4  ,we
 have imagined that sex1 and the sex    
function1 began and ended in the        
physical4 ,this view is excusable in the
 case of the materialist1 if there      
really be such a person but it is       

obviously a stupid view for the         
theologian1 who regards this life as the
 door to spiritual life4 ,since sex is  
the cause and the result of what we know
 of creation2 since it is the foundation
 of all the qualities that we know as   
spiritual laws2 friendship2             
unselfishness2 fidelity2 paternal       
solicitude--it is absolutely certain    
that the most beautiful things we know  
here must have a correspondence in the  
life hereafter4 ,of these beautiful     
things in life1 babies come first2 with 
birds and flowers and music as fitting  
accessories4  ,but to return to the ark 
of the covenant4 ,the perpetual flame on
 the altar 7the center7 is the undying  
,flame of spiritual love--and by that we
 mean sex-love1 let it be understood4   
,if we seem to repeat this too          
frequently it is because of the almost  
general habit of the race to apologize  
for sex-love4 ,the erroneous idea       
obtains1 that spiritual love is sexless4
 ,all too frequently we come across the 

phrase1 with a love that has in it      
nothing of human love1 the writer       
evidently anxious to convey the         
impression of tremendous spirituality   
and the consequent elimination of the   
sex function4  ,and so we emphasize once
 more1 and we may do so again1 the      
assurance that the symbol of the        
never-dying flame upon the altar is     
typical of the never-dying spirit of    
sex-love4 ,spirit is ever symbolized by 
flame1 as in the flaming sword of the   
archangel4  ,the ,deity upon the seat of
 the altar symbolizes the bi-une        
,sex-principle of creation4  ,the reason
 that the ,jewish people have claimed   
that they were ,god's chosen people is  
because1 in their symbolism of the ark  
of the ,covenant1 all ,israel was       
grouped under the tabernacle4 ,the      
formation of the tabernacle proves that 
it typifies the mother's womb4 ,the     
tabernacle was guarded by the priests   
who were sworn to purity2 thus they     
symbolized the esoteric truth that the  

pure spiritual sex-union bestows        
immortal god-hood4  ,let us take another
 story1 that of the life-token4 ,this is
 best told in the story of the ,holy    
,grail1 although it is found in all the 
fairy-books of all nations1 in the      
language and form befitting the race to 
which it belongs4  ,in the original1    
that is in the earliest recitals of this
 life-token story1 we find that the     
thing left behind1 as a center 7which is
 always guarded and protected in various
 ways71 was a tree4 ,here1 we have the  
phallic symbol as the life-token4 ,but  
in the story of the ,holy ,grail1 the   
cup is the life token to be guarded2 it 
is the sacred symbol of the quest and it
 is of a design resembling the red rose 
of the ,templars4 ,this time it is the  
yoni--literally the chalice of the holy 
communion2 the centre of the radiant    
circle1 which is the answer to all the  
problems within the radius4 ,it is the  
search for1 and the finding of1 the     
balance in counterpartal union4 ,it is  

the ,x of ,being1 and only the purest   
and the noblest of the ,knights of the  
,round ,table essay the difficult quest4
 ,the mound of ,venus is another name   
for the ,round ,table4  ,again is       
emphasized the necessity for purity1 and
 this purity1 although including all the
 spiritual qualities3 fidelity2 bravery2
 self-sacrifice2 humanity2 love of      
truth2 culminates in sexual purity4     
,blessed are the pure in heart 7the     
pulse of the soul7 for they shall see   
,god4 ,we revise this latter part1 and  
we say for they shall be gods4  ,let us 
consider the story of the sleeping      
,princess4 ,she is depicted as a        
princess1 first of all1 because she is  
the daughter of a king2 a king is an    
earthly ruler1 or exalted person4       
,esoterically1 she is the daughter of   
the exalted ,god1 and she is the soul4  
,sometimes this story is told in the    
male gender1 but everywhere the         
essential points are the same4  ,wagner1
 who is known as a ,mystic1 has         

illustrated the story in ,brunhilde and 
,siegfried4 ,brunhilde is an immortal--a
 goddess1 who renounces her immortality 
to become a woman4  ,she sleeps on the  
top of a high mountain and she is       
surrounded by a circle of flame2 and    
here she sleeps1 despite all efforts to 
arouse her1 until awakened by the touch 
of ,siegfried--the one human being in   
all the universe who could awaken the   
sleeping princess4  ,the high mountain  
symbolizes the highest love of which we 
are capable4 ,to reach the soul of the  
exalted woman1 typified in the          
fairy-story by the word princess1 and   
later1 by ,wagner1 as the goddess1 man  
must be her mate4 ,no other can enter   
the womb of her soul1 though many may   
effect an entrance to the outer court4  
,this truth1 as absolute as life itself1
 solves all the problems of the mystery 
of love and its joys and sorrows4 ,no   
soul can wholly1 unreservedly love the  
wrong one4 ,though we may love and die  
of the pain of unrequited loving1 yet   

love is its own self-justification1 and 
its own reward4 ,the pathway of love    
leads up the mountain top1 but no one   
who reaches the summit shall fail to    
find that for which he seeks4  ,the soul
 of man1 and of woman1 has been playing 
a game of blind-man's bluff--a fitting  
name for the game it is1 too4 ,unable to
 see anything but the exterior nature1  
and longing for success in the search1  
we have frantically grabbed here and    
there1 and appropriated that which we   
grabbed1 with a self-complacency and an 
egotism of which little ,jack ,horner   
would be ashamed4  ,in the symbolical   
rites and ceremonies of secret orders1  
such as the ,ancient ,alchemists2 the   
,hermetics2 the ,rosicrusians2 and in   
modern times1 the ,free ,masons1 we have
 this story of the search for the       
ultimate balance of soul union1 told in 
language veiled unless we are fit to    
know2 but openly enough if we are fit4  
,and in all these orders 7alleged       
guardians of the hidden wisdom7 we have 

varying degrees of initiation2 and in   
each degree the initiate must undergo   
certain trials to prove his             
fearlessness2 his fidelity2 his fitness1
 in other words1 for the final          
revealment of all1 which is the         
initiation into the holy of holies2 the 
secret chamber and the degree of        
mastership4  ,in the order of ,masonry1 
the highest degree is that of the       
,templar4 ,the symbol of the ,templars  
is the red rose on the cross1 together  
with the star and the crescent4 ,the    
star preserves the esotericism of its   
nomenclature1 in whatever sphere it is  
used1 namely1 the power of radiating    
light4 ,it stands for the radiant       
center4 ,the ,knights ,templar sought   
the radiant center to complete their    
half circle1 and when they should have  
found1 they were to become radiant with 
the light of spiritual power4 ,that they
 originally at least1 understood the way
 of this initiation1 is evident by the  
symbol of the rose and the cross--the   

combined phallus and yoni4  ,this fact  
is the underlying cause of the open and 
hereditary enmity of the ,church of     
,rome for the modern order of           
,freemasons4 ,the ,church sought to     
specialize in the persons of the ,virgin
 ,mary and her ,son the eternal         
principles of the way of the cross4 ,the
 temporal power of the ,church could be 
built up only by offering a complete    
system of salvation within the church   
itself4 ,at the same time1 the utter    
degradation of ,sex1 which had reached  
its depths under ,roman civilization1   
called for as complete a reversion of   
the ideas of the ,ancient               
sex-worshippers1 as was consistent with 
the truth4  ,hence we find the extreme  
attitude of the ,church opposing all    
reference to sex as other than a part of
 the temptations of the ,evil ,one1     
although they did retain the central    
truth typified by the ,holy ,virgin     
,mother1 and the pure and perfect child4
  ,the ,alchemists are supposed to have 

been imbued with the desire and1 to some
 extent1 at least1 were regarded as     
having the knowledge of how to make     
gold4 ,this gold-making was always      
accomplished by transmutation of the    
baser 7lower7 metals2 also1 the         
knowledge of how to accomplish this     
transmutation was possible only to one  
possessing the philosopher's stone4  ,if
 we will but remember that this         
philosopher's stone was of such a purity
 that it was almost impossible to find  
it2 that1 although several initiates    
claimed to possess the stone1 yet no    
visible proof of its existence1 or of   
gold resulting from lead or copper1 was 
ever offered2 and again if we will      
realize the fine distinction between the
 words found and discovered1 and take   
note that the word found is used almost 
invariably in connection with those who 
claimed to possess the stone1 we will   
arrive at the obvious conclusion that   
the secret of the ,alchemists was of an 
interior nature4 ,we discover outside of

 ourselves2 we find within4 ,above all1 
the stone of great purity is the same   
that was raised at ,babylon1 supplanting
 the yoni1 which is to say1 the phallic 
symbol4  ,a philosopher is one who is   
wise in his interior nature2 his wisdom 
is of the esoteric quality2 we do not   
apply the term philosopher to either    
great educators1 or great financiers2   
but to those whose activities are turned
 within4  ,the force which is manifested
 in the lower desires and passions1 when
 transmuted into spiritual channels1    
opens the door to the golden light of   
illumination4  ,to become in reality a  
,prince of the ,rosy ,cross bestows the 
exaltation and the power1 typified by   
that of an earthly prince--one who is   
exalted above the common man4  ,it is   
doubtful1 indeed1 if many of the ancient
 alchemists attained to this exalted    
degree in its true significance2 and we 
may readily believe that in an age in   
which wealth was so eagerly sought2     
temporal power so much desired2 where   

deception was almost general2 that few  
lived the requisite purity of life to   
have accomplished the transmutation2 so 
today there is not one in a thousand of 
the many who have taken the degree of   
,knight ,templar1 who recognizes its    
esoteric meaning4  ,but words have a    
trick of trapping us1 and we note that  
the word taken is invariably used in    
referring to modern ,masonic initiation4
 ,verily they have taken the degree in  
its outward semblance4 ,they have not   
attained to its powers and privileges4  
,nor can they do so1 when they exclude  
the very gate of life from the order4   
,they may become masons 7builders of the
 temple71 but how can they become       
,architects1 when they have not entered 
the tabernacle8  ,in a search for hidden
 meanings1 and for a secret tradition   
which is believed to be discoverable in 
,kabalistic and ,hermetic literature1 we
 find1 if we possess true insight1 the  
one indubitable truth1 subordinating all
 the other symbols1 namely that of the  

supremacy1 the finality1 of the         
sublimated sex-union1 resulting in      
immortal mastership4  ,most modern      
interpreters of the archives of these   
ancient philosophers ignore the sexual  
significance of the arcana1 but a       
glimpse at the symbols will readily     
convince the initiated of their identity
 with sexual symbology4  ,for example in
 ,the ,history of ,transcendental       
,magic1 by ,eliphas ,levi 7,abbe        
,constant71 translated by ,arthur       
,edward ,waite1 there is a plate used to
 illustrate the author's theory of      
,alchemy1 which he concludes had two    
aspects1 one a physical and the other a 
moral one4 ,the sexual1 as well as the  
spiritual1 significance is ignored1 but 
this may be due to a disinclination to  
reveal the secret meaning of the        
alchemical symbols1 or it may be due to 
a materialistic tendency on the part of 
the compiler4  ,the plates1 however1    
speak for themselves1 and in one1       
ascribed to ,basil-,valentine1 an       

alchemist of the ,fifteenth century1    
called ,the ,great ,hermetic ,arcanum1  
the supreme and significant point of the
 illustration1 shows1 within the circle 
of ,experience1 through which the       
initiate travels in his search for the  
supreme god-head1 two doves1 holding in 
their beaks a crown4 ,the doves are     
perfectly matched4 ,the crown is        
balanced between them1 and the figure   
tops the circle1 under the heading      
regeneration4  ,in another plate1 which 
the author presents as the ,philosophic 
,cross1 or ,plan of the ,third ,temple  
as prophesied by ,ezekiel1 we note      
again1 that the crown of the symbolical 
temple represents the red rose upon a   
cross1 within a radiant circle2 beneath 
this is a mother-eagle with outstretched
 wings1 shielding her little brood1 and 
on either side a tree and a flowering   
rosebush4  ,here is the symbol par      
excellence of generation4 ,the creative 
function of the male and the female in  
procreative conjunctivity4  ,the        

employment of the eagle as a religious  
symbol may be traced back to the        
civilization of the ,hittites4  ,only a 
few years ago1 two ,english archologists
 discovered a double-headed eagle in    
,asia4 ,this was identical with those   
seen perpetuating religious rites and   
ceremonies of the sex-worshipers4 ,an   
eagle holding in its talons a serpent is
 an emblem well known today4 ,the origin
 of the adoption of the eagle as a      
religious1 though not necessarily a     
sacred1 symbol by prehistoric races1 may
 easily be imagined1 if we consider that
 the eagle is a bird of tremendous      
power2 and that it soars to unreachable 
heights2 and that it unquestionably was 
at some time seen to swoop down and     
carry off the serpent1 possibly even    
during their ceremonies of              
serpent-worship4  ,this idea becomes    
quite convincing when we also remember  
that the ceremonies of the serpent      
worshipers were carried on1 as far as   
feasible1 upon the mountain4 ,we allude 

to this stage of religious history as   
serpent worship1 but when we realize the
 points of analogy between the serpent  
and the phallus it is apparent that the 
serpent was only the nature-emblem of   
generation1 as manifested by the male   
principle4  ,the eagle and the dove is a
 phrase employed today to illustrate the
 law of antithesis1 and it is more than 
probable that the eagle represented the 
lower nature of the sex-relation1 in    
juxtaposition to the higher1 as the dove
 is emblematical of the spiritualized   
aspect of sex-love4 ,we have an analogy 
to that of the eagle and the dove in the
 ,biblical allusion to the last day2    
when ,god will separate the 'sheep from 
the goats1' ,here again is a pertinent  
reference to the sex nature4 ,the goat  
is a symbol of sensuality and lust1     
principally because he has perverted    
sexual proclivities1 notably that of    
coercion4 ,for this reason1 ,classical  
,mythology employs the satyr1 a creature
 half man and half goat1 to typify the  

lowest form of the sex call in man4  ,on
 the other hand1 the lamb is the type of
 gentleness and affection1 and although 
in outward appearance the lamb and the  
goat are not dissimilar1 their natures  
are antithetical4  ,in estimating the   
,god-idea of the ,ancients1 many        
mistakes have arisen by confounding     
religious symbols with the sacred       
symbols4 ,the race-mind was in its      
kindergarten stage1 and all ideals were 
instilled by means of pictures--a method
 which even the present hour finds most 
effective4  ,in modern theological      
symbolism we have ,god and the ,devil2  
,heaven and ,hell2 angels and demons1 to
 illustrate by antithesis4  ,they all   
belong to religious symbology1 but only 
those which teach spiritual ideals are  
denominated sacred4  ,riding the goat1  
alleged to be the almost invariable     
initiatory prelude to fitness for       
membership in all secret orders1 means1 
first of all1 that the would-be initiate
 must have control over his lower sexual

 desires4 ,if he cannot control the goat
 instincts within his nature1 he stands 
small chance of taking the higher       
degrees of spiritual regeneration1      
through transmutation4  ,in another     
symbolic chart presenting the secrets of
 alchemical transmutation1 we find      
depicted ,the ,gate of ,eternal ,wisdom1
 and we are further informed that this  
gate also brings knowledge of ,god4 ,the
 design of this cave-like aperture      
should betray its esoteric meaning4 ,it 
is situated under a mound1 upon which   
trees are planted4 ,the inscriptions on 
the corrugated walls of the cave1 are   
evidently designed to resemble seven    
lotus petals1 and are set forth as the  
seven mysteries4 ,inscriptions warning  
against profanation of this sacred gate1
 and also promising eternal life and    
glory to the true initiate1 inspire the 
intrepid and deter the doubtful4 ,of    
these latter1 several are outside the   
entrance4 ,two are on the steps leading 
to the mouth of the cave but their      

attitude bespeaks doubt of their        
worthiness4 ,only one has penetrated to 
the radiant center of the aperture1 and 
there is room for but the one to enter  
the radiance of the solar gate1 which   
truly bestows a knowledge that is of    
,god4  ,sex ,symbology is a subject that
 calls for a large volume devoted to    
this special side of it1 and we cannot  
hope to do more here than to touch a few
 of the almost universal proofs of the  
contention which is the purpose of this 
book1 namely1 that the supreme goal of  
life1 typified in every religion1 every 
philosophy1 and in the intuitional      
knowledge of the human mind1 is         
spiritual sex-union2 and that this can  
be accomplished only by counterparts2   
the two halves of the bi-une god seed   
uniting in one immortal and complete    
pair--a man and a woman4 ,not1 we must  
again emphasize1 not in a hermaphroditic
 personality1 but in two perfect        
complementaries--mates2 not one but a   
pair4  ,in another exposition of        

,hermetic secrets we discover the       
amazing statement that the alchemist is 
found working throughout1 in conjunction
 with a woman of the art2 they begin and
 they attain together4  ,this should be 
plain enough4 ,small chance1 indeed1    
either would have of attaining alone4   
,but if this suggestion is not          
sufficient 7and either from design or   
from failure to comprehend the          
significance of it1 the translator seems
 to have missed the point71 we are      
introduced to a symbolical figure-study1
 which shows a ,chalice in which the sun
 and the moon are personified 7the      
solar-man and the solar-woman71 with the
 god ,vulcan 7fire7 seated between them4
 ,underneath this twain-one symbol a    
mortal man and a mortal woman are       
kneeling on either side of a cone-shaped
 and dome-tipped furnace1 which is      
lighted by a feeble candle4 ,but their  
attitude of prayer bespeaks the hope    
that this earthly flame will be         
transmuted by their prayers and         

aspirations2 by their reverential       
attitude toward the divine character of 
the function of mating1 into the        
immortal and unquenchable flame typified
 by the god of fire himself4  ,in       
another series of symbolical plates1    
purporting to be the story of ,metallic 
transmutation1 but representing1 above  
all1 the story of manifestation from the
 ,divine to the human and again to the  
spiritualized and perfected ,adam and   
,eve--7the solar man and the solar      
woman71 we again see that from          
generation to regeneration the work is  
accomplished by man and woman in        
conjunction4  ,these plates bear the    
hall-marks of ,christian appropriation  
of ,hermetic symbolism1 as peculiarly   
applicable to the ,church1 but the      
central doctrine of salvation through   
sex-regeneration1 is retained4 ,whether 
consciously or not1 is a question4      
,modern commentators and translators of 
alchemical literature insist that such  
documents are palpably related to the   

secret1 or secrets1 of metallic         
transmutation4 ,that they prove the     
search for1 if not the existence of1 a  
magic solvent that resolves the baser   
metals into gold2 but1 as far as known1 
such a compound has not yet been        
discovered or1 if it ever was1 it has   
since been lost and evades all attempts 
at rediscovery4 ,but if we read these   
alchemical treatises as they relate to  
transmutation of sex-love from the      
pro-creative function to regeneration   
through spiritual or counterpartal union
 7solar mates71 we have the key to every
 statement4  ,a writer tells of an      
instance which is recorded among        
alchemical archives1 where an unknown   
master testified to his possession of   
the mystery 7supposedly of metallic     
transmutation71 but it is added that he 
had not proceeded to the work because he
 had failed to meet an elect woman1 who 
was necessary thereto4 ,in other words1 
applying this statement in its obviously
 logical sense1 the unknown master knew 

the esoteric meaning of the alchemical  
postulate1 but not having met his female
 complement1 he could not testify to the
 results of this transmutation4 ,an     
elect woman would hardly be necessary in
 the work of metallic transmutation4    
,small wonder that the alchemist        
abandoned the work of turning lead and  
copper into gold4 ,if he had found the  
key of keys1 he cared little whether    
lead were lead1 or whether gold remained
 gold1 or melted into thin air4 ,the    
golden light of illumination showed him 
all things in their purpose1 and gold as
 a metal meant no more to him than did  
the so-called baser metals4  ,commenting
 upon this statement1 the translator    
observes3 ,those ,hermetic texts which  
bear a spiritual interpretation and are 
as if a record of spiritual experience1 
present1 like the literature of physical
 alchemy1 the following aspects of      
symbolism3 the marriage of sun and moon2
 of a mystical king and queen2 a union  
between natures which are one at the    

root1 but diverse in manifestation2 a   
transmutation which follows this union  
and an abiding glory therein4  ,if we   
will remember that the solar-man was    
personified by the ,ancients as the sun2
 and the solar-woman by the moon1 we    
have the first and salient points of the
 original ,hermetic secrets1 however    
much they may have degenerated from     
their spiritual to their physical       
application4 ,the probabilities are that
 owing to the disapproval of the        
,christian ,hierarchy1 only the most    
veiled terminology was permissible4     
,this view is more logical than is the  
one that the esoteric meaning was lost  
sight of4  ,the marriage of an          
hypothetical or mystical king and queen 
bespeaks exaltation of the two          
conjoining persons1 male and female1 but
 this exaltation is in consciousness1   
and not in mere personality4 ,the terms 
king and queen are nothing more or less 
than symbols of an exalted              
7spiritualized7 state4  ,and1 in        

passing1 we may here mention the fact   
that the language of lovers testifies to
 this intuitional realization4 ,my      
queen6 exclaims the enraptured lover1   
although in social station his beloved  
one may be only a scullery maid2 and    
certainly1 neither the beauty nor the   
goodness nor the wisdom of earthly kings
 and queens would be sufficient to      
inspire the comparison4  ,it is ever the
 soul calling for the mate who1 when    
found1 will exalt the twain-one into the
 immortal powers and immortal wealth    
imperfectly symbolized by earthly       
rulers1 making right royal queens and   
kings of common clay4  ,the third aspect
 of the symbolism tells of an union     
between two natures which are one at the
 root1 but diverse in manifestation4    
,and the alchemist who sought the       
physical interpretation of this1        
promised that1 as earth1 air1 and fire  
and water were the elements out of which
 all manifestation is composed1 it only 
remained for someone to discover the    

exact proportion of each of these       
elementary substances in a specific     
compound2 this accomplished1 copper for 
example1 could be dissolved into its    
constituent parts and re-solved again in
 the proportions which formed gold1 a   
thing which we are not prepared to say  
could not be accomplished1 but a thing  
which we do say1 would not even be      
attempted by one who had found the      
secret of the interior transmutation1   
because having attained to the radiant  
center1 he would realize the glory of   
the worlds1 and gold1 as metal1 would be
 to him of far less value than the      
emerald of the grass2 the pearls of dew 
upon the rose2 the scent of the lotus2  
the song of birds2 the laughter of      
children4  ,how vain and foolish to     
imagine that a philosopher would think  
it worth while to search for gold1 as a 
metal4 ,he would not even consider the  
ambition worthy the parchment used to   
preserve the record of his labors4  ,but
 to find the golden light from the      

radiant center of pure and unquenchable 
love--that were indeed worthy of ages of
 research4 ,for are we not promised1 the
 glory of the world if we will seek and 
find8 ,and he who truly seeks will      
absolutely find4 ,what is the glory of  
the world8 ,is it fame1 or wealth1 or   
lands1 or gems or kingdoms8  ,love is   
the only glory worthy of the name4      
,for ,life with all its yield of joy and
 woe   ,and hope and fear--believe the  
aged friend--   ,is just our chance at  
the prize o' learning love4  ,when we   
realize the esoteric meaning of this    
aspect of the ancient alchemical symbol1
 namely1 that the two halves of the one 
whole1 manifesting diversely as male and
 female1 are reunited1 we come to the   
fourth aspect of the symbol mentioned1  
and the transmutation which follows this
 union and the abiding glory therein1 is
 the inevitable and logical sequential  
answer4  ,an abiding glory must be      
founded upon spiritual substantiability4
 ,transmutation is not synonymous with1 

extinction1 or elimination1 or          
abandonment4 ,we transmute the lower    
into the higher1 the exterior into the  
interior1 the physical into the         
spiritual4 ,this is the sum and         
substance of the ,ancient ,wisdom4      
,there is no eccentric change or        
transition from one phase or plane of   
life1 into another4 ,it is neither      
logical nor justifiable to assume that  
,sex is limited to the physical1 or the 
astral or the psychic1 or any other     
specific planes of consciousness4 ,these
 planes are not distinctively separable 
anyway4 ,they are merely names which we 
use to distinguish degrees1 or          
limitations of consciousness4  ,the     
statement that the two halves are       
reunited is almost invariably           
misinterpreted to imply an annihilation1
 or absorption of individuality1 into   
some sort of vaporous1 formless1 sexless
 ,thing2 but why this should be so      
misconstrued is a puzzle1 any more than 
that bringing together the two halves of

 an orange which had been divided1 would
 result in the destruction of that      
edible2 or any more than bringing       
together a glove fitting the right hand 
and its mate fitting the left hand1     
would destroy the shape and usefulness  
of this article4 ,the comparison may be 
a homely one1 but it is understandable4 
,it takes two to make a pair4 ,mistake  
it not1 and further1 there is no abiding
 glory in this world or in the next or  
in any other sphere1 that is not founded
 upon the deep1 intense and eternal love
 of man and woman4                      
,,chapter ,,ix                          
,,what ,,constitutes ,,sex ,,immorality8
   ,the average mind1 nurtured in       
apprehensive awe of that race fetish    
called ,public ,opinion1 is inordinately
 afraid of words4  ,atheist1 infidel1   
ungodly are epithets which have been    
used as mental clubs1 with temporary    
effect1 to beat back the wave of        
religious and scientific ,rationalism1  
which punctuated the last century4      

,these words have now lost much of their
 terror1 even to the undeveloped        
consciousness of the average1 because it
 has been shown that the ,god-idea which
 rational thought fain would substitute 
for the old revengeful ,deity1 has not  
annihilated the world1 but quite to the 
contrary has resulted in a happier and  
higher ideal of godhood than that which 
the early ,church postulated4  ,epithets
 are the mental bulwarks of the powers  
of resistance against ,evolution4       
,ignorance is fearful of the unknown1   
and the knights of ,enlightenment have  
ever had to fight their way through the 
ranks of abuse and criticism and        
misrepresentation4  ,free-love is a     
phrase with which even the most intrepid
 advocate of rational thought hesitates 
to claim affiliation2 and yet the goal  
of our highest endeavors must be a state
 of ,society where ,love1 the god1 is   
free from the mire of corruption1 and   
the bonds of slavery4  ,let us not be   
afraid of so harmless a thing as a word1

 remembering the case of the little girl
 who ran to her mother crying with      
indignation because someone had alluded 
to her as an aristocrat4 ,she did not   
know what the word meant1 and so        
resented it as something undeserved4    
,when we examine into what the phrase   
free-love really means1 we will not be  
so fearful of its sound4  ,to whom is   
this epithet most frequently applied8   
,is it to the average man who is known  
to be a ,lothario in matters of sex8    
,not at all4 ,he is referred to as a gay
 bachelor or as one who is sowing his   
wild oats or some other phrase1 which in
 no way affects his social standing4    
,is it applied to women of the          
half-world1 to recognized1 and legalized
 prostitution8 ,never6 ,it is           
significant of the real meaning of      
free-love that the term is never used in
 connection with what modern reform has 
aptly designated the white slave        
traffic1 for the obvious reason that    
nowhere is ,love so un-free2 so enslaved

 and bound and murdered as in this phase
 of woman's degradation4  ,nor is the   
term applied to unfaithful wives1       
because in this type of defiance of     
traditional sex-ethics there is always  
the spirit of self-accusation2 a tacit1 
if not open1 admission of wrong-doing4  
,we never hear the awful accusation of  
free-lover hurled at the young woman who
 has1 what the world calls1 sinned1     
because1 forsooth1 she pays the price of
 her deviation from social standards    
7when discovered7 by ostracism1 and not 
infrequently by a broken heart1 or by   
sinking further into the depths of      
bondage2 and so here again it is evident
 that there is no freedom for whatever  
spirit of love actuates her conduct4    
,it must be admitted that the term      
free-love is applied only to those who  
openly claim the right to bestow their  
affections and indulge in the           
sex-relationship1 independent of the    
marriage ceremony4 ,it matters not      
whether this claim includes but one     

mate1 or several4 ,it is the demand that
 they shall not forfeit their right to  
respect and morality1 which is resented 
by the many who still conform to        
traditional customs1 and which general  
conformity results in investing the term
 free-love with an unpleasant odor4     
,public opinion puts a premium upon     
deceit4  ,such intimate matters as      
marriage and divorce are really no      
concern of any person other than the    
contracting or the distracted parties4  
,the public is too concerned with       
trivialities and too little with ,truth4
 ,nothing short of national insanity    
permits the existence of divorce-courts1
 and the necessity for married persons  
desiring to live apart1 to slander and  
abuse each other like pickpockets before
 they may act upon such a decision4     
,some time ago the public press was     
filled with the minutest details of the 
love story of a woman1 who had lived for
 fifteen years hidden from the world    
because she loved a man well enough to  

pay that price4  ,she might have        
insisted that the man obtain a divorce  
from his wife1 to whom he had been      
married seventeen or more years1 and    
thus win the approval of society4 ,but  
this woman placed love above all        
material things1 and she preferred to   
take nothing from the wife4 ,the love of
 her husband the wife did not possess   
and1 it would seem1 did not care for    
particularly4 ,when through the accident
 of the man's death the story came to   
light1 the press was flooded with       
letters from prominent club-women and   
from clergymen and others1 stating upon 
what terms1 if any1 this love-recluse   
should be forgiven4  ,most of them      
decided that she should not be forgiven2
 a few seemed to think that if she      
repented and lived thereafter a pure    
life1 she might in time be worthy of    
their forgiveness4  ,such a spectacle6  
,america will yet share the reputation  
with ,england of being a nation without 
a sense of humor4  ,eagerly the         

representative members of society rush  
in where angels fear to tread upon any  
and all occasions to air their opinions 
upon other people's conduct and thus    
prove their own virtue4  ,the fact that 
this woman was not in any position to be
 forgiven or unforgiven2 that she was   
sublimely unconscious of and wholly     
indifferent to their opinions2 that she 
was unaware of any necessity for either 
shame or repentance2 seems not to have  
entered the silly brains of these       
keepers of the public morals4 ,she had  
loved one man with a fidelity1 a        
whole-heartedness1 and a loftiness of   
self-sacrifice which are as rare as they
 are great in these days of pretense and
 hypocritical virtue1 and she had paid  
the full price for her idealism4 ,she   
did not repine or regret4 ,she only     
suffered1 not alone because of her      
unenviable notoriety1 but because ,death
 had taken her loved one from her4      
,surely this was indeed an evidence of  
real love in an unreal civilization1    

which should have brought out the       
fearless sympathy and approval of every 
good woman in the land4 ,it should have 
been food for sermons in every pulpit in
 ,christendom1 that a modern woman      
preferred solitary confinement with the 
man she loved to the usual method of    
procedure1 which insists upon the       
respectable position of wife1 no matter 
at what cost to another4  ,but this is  
,society's estimate of ,love and ,truth 
and ,virtue1 and it is small wonder if  
real people become indifferent to       
,society's feelings4  ,if the term      
free-love were really synonymous with   
sex-promiscuity1 we would hear it used  
in connection with those whose frequent 
divorces are the subject of press       
comment1 but we do not1 because by their
 outward concession to established      
ethics they subscribe to the demands of 
,convention4  ,the term1 in its         
opprobrious sense1 is almost always     
applied to women1 because for many      
centuries the men have claimed their    

right to personal liberty in matters    
connected with the sex-relation1 and    
until women of the self-respecting and  
educated class began to openly emulate  
the example of the male1 there was no   
occasion to use the phrase4 ,men come   
under its lash only when they1 too1     
concede to women the right to           
respectability notwithstanding defiance 
of tradition4  ,all of which goes to    
prove that the public mind is in reality
 sufficiently clear on the matter of    
distinction between sex promiscuity and 
free-love4 ,it is likewise obvious that 
the opprobrium that attaches to the     
phrase is not aimed at promiscuity but  
at the claim to personal liberty in     
matters of the sex-relation and defiance
 of ,public ,opinion which demands      
either ostensible concurrence in its    
standards1 or punishment for openly     
transgressing them4  ,the result of this
 unjust 7and unfit1 in the light of our 
other advanced ideas7 attitude toward   
the most important function of life1 has

 resulted in one of two lines of conduct
 as woman's only free choice4  ,either  
she must resort to deception1 hypocrisy 
and pretense1 shielding her secret      
excursions into forbidden paths1 by     
feigning a scorn and abhorrence for the 
doctrine of free-love1 the while she    
secretly indulges her sex-nature1 more  
or less promiscuously1 or else she is   
forced to repress all her natural       
instincts1 and not infrequently these   
instincts are abnormally strong because 
of pre-natal and inherited influences4  
,both of these courses1 the only two    
which are open to the average woman1 are
 disastrous to the sex1 and through them
 to the race1 because women are the     
mothers of men1 and any course which    
binds and fetters the free spirit of    
woman hampers race-improvement4         
,repression of the natural functions of 
her being results in physical disease1  
and ultimately in mental weakness4      
,unnatural expression of the            
sex-function1 under the ban of          

compulsion1 whether through the         
compulsion of marriage or through the   
more flagrant type of commercial        
prostitution1 is death to the best      
development of the race4  ,women1       
through the urge of economic necessity1 
or through the religious ideal of wifely
 submission and fidelity to their ,lord 
and ,master have been compelled to      
develop a craftiness and an artificial  
modesty which1 in most cases1 passes for
 femininity1 and deceives1 as it is     
intended to do1 the average man4  ,for  
centuries1 a woman's only profession was
 matrimony4 ,her education for this     
profession consisted first of all of    
complete ignorance of all that relates  
to the most intimate and most vital part
 of her nature--the function of sex4 ,in
 the occasional instances where she had 
inherited a degree of mentality which   
could not be dwarfed1 she must at least 
feign ignorance2 and so1 while secretly 
aware of every emotion of the male1 and 
covertly playing upon his sex-nature in 

her task of catching a husband1 it is   
small wonder that women have developed  
the traits of the cat animal1 and are   
frequently both treacherous and cruel4  
,indeed1 it is only because the ,female 
,principle is the attracting and        
conserving power of the bi-une sex-love1
 that she has broken through these      
mental fetters1 and in a few rare       
instances has hurled defiance at the    
devils of convention and tradition and  
claims justification of her own         
sex-nature1 and her right to her own    
person1 despite the epithet of          
free-love4  ,woman's partial            
emancipation in some instances has1 no  
doubt1 gone to her head1 as it were1 and
 we see many women confounding license  
with liberty2 mistaking passion for     
,love2 and exchanging restraint for     
debauchery4  ,the average woman is      
either almost entirely lacking in sex   
desire or she is abnormally active in   
that function4 ,in truth1 the same state
 of affairs prevails here1 as in so many

 other phases of our modern life1       
namely1 there is no balance4 ,we are a  
civilization of extremes2 we are        
one-sided1 abnormal2 distorted4 ,we are 
seeking the pivotal point of our        
destiny1 which is the soul1 but few have
 reached that point4 ,those who have    
not1 are groping through the jungles of 
the mental plane of consciousness1      
upheld on the one hand by the upward    
trend of their being1 which seeks the   
level of the soul-conscious state2 and  
held back on the other hand by the      
trammels of the sense-conscious type    
from which the race has developed to its
 present condition4  ,those instances   
where women indulge in excesses are     
comparatively rare in proportion to     
numbers1 and they loom large in         
perspective because of their very       
incongruity with our ideals of womanly  
conduct4 ,the vast majority of women may
 be safely trusted to use their         
sex-freedom1 when it shall have truly   
arrived1 for the purpose of finding that

 one and only mate which their souls    
instinctively know to be our rightful   
heritage--the proverbial pearl of great 
price which insures immortality in the  
bliss of union with our ,beloved4       
,love1 when freed from the illusions of 
sense2 from the shackles of             
commercialism2 from the bonds of error  
regarding the meaning and purpose of    
marriage2 freed from selfishness and    
licentiousness2 will solve the question 
of sex-promiscuity4 ,this for the       
obvious reason that ,love seeks its own4
 ,if left free to seek1 it will find4   
,but1 if sex promiscuity is far from    
being free-love1 if the doctrine of sex 
freedom is fraught with many dangers    
under our present social system1 it must
 be conceded that no one method of      
social evolution1 thus far devised1 can 
be recommended as ideally perfect4 ,the 
best that we can hope to do is to       
emphasize the importance and the        
sacredness and the innate purity of the 
sex-relation1 while conceding to both   

sexes all the personal liberty possible4
  ,and above all1 we should avoid       
condemnation of those who claim the     
right to freedom1 lest we cover up a    
condition which can but be the better   
for being open to the light4            
,particularly should we shield women    
from the charge of immorality1 and      
licentiousness1 when we see them        
straying down the by-paths of the       
senses1 in their quest for freedom1     
remembering that the centuries of       
repression and submission and consequent
 deception have left their mark upon    
woman's temperament4  ,man has for ages 
boasted of his sex virility2 of his     
conquests in what he has termed love4   
,not infrequently a man's choice of a   
wife is the result of much seeking in   
the garden of ,life2 and much sipping of
 the honey from the various flowers that
 grow therein4 ,often1 indeed1 a man    
frankly tells the woman he would marry  
that he knows he loves her above all    
other women for the convincing reason   

that he has tried so many and none have 
held him4 ,should a woman make the same 
confession and draw the same conclusion1
 he would be horrified4  ,it must be    
admitted1 then1 that the term           
free-lovers is applied only to those who
 defy ,public ,opinion and claim their  
right to respect and morality despite   
their defiance of ,society's false      
standards of morality4 ,these standards 
are false because they are based upon   
criticism and censure of results instead
 of upon motives4  ,society ignores1 if 
it does not actually encourage1         
frivolous flirtations1 and frowns most  
harshly upon instances of real love4 ,it
 sets the seal of disapproval and       
ostracism upon those who1 because of    
circumstances or possibly because of    
indifference to man-made laws1 take     
their affairs into their own hands and  
refuse to exhibit either penitence or   
shame when the world discovers that they
 neglected the marriage ceremony4 ,if   
two persons truly love each other and   

there is nothing to interfere with their
 undergoing the publicity of a marriage 
ceremony1 well and good1 unless1 indeed1
 it is a matter of principle with them  
that our social customs are a fetich4   
,but there are innumerable instances    
where there are obstacles to unions     
which to overcome would involve         
hardships and suffering to others1 or   
where absurd laws prevent marriage1 and 
where two persons loving each other1    
prefer to pay the price of social       
ostracism to separation4 ,such as these 
lose nothing by ,society's disapproval1 
but ,society does lose something by     
persecuting those who are independent   
enough and honest enough to act from    
motive1 rather than from custom1 and who
 insist upon maintaining their          
self-respect1 in the face of criticism4 
,self-respect is not related to         
braggadocio4  ,it must be admitted that 
as yet there are few persons who have   
the courage to endure martyrdom for     
their convictions1 which is1 perhaps1   

just as well1 because the majority are  
unable to distinguish between brazen    
shamelessness and unashamedness4 ,the   
average woman will stick to the safe    
habit of dissembling4  ,women have      
learned the lesson of the cat too       
thoroughly to jump immediately from the 
back-yard of ,deception to the front    
porch of ,truth4  ,in this one respect  
at least1 however much she may indulge  
her desire for frankness in other       
directions1 a woman will lie valiantly1 
self-protectingly1 and continually1 even
 though she follow in secret the example
 of the cat1 which 7seeing its master   
come home from the hunt with a string of
 birds1 and displaying1 with much pride 
and satisfaction1 the results of his    
prowess71 conceived the idea that it    
would also be a fine thing for her to go
 forth and kill the canary4 ,but to     
tabby's surprise1 her ability was       
rewarded with chastisement2 whereupon   
she pondered the question over and over3
 ,how can it be1 that what is virtue in 

man is vice in a cat8  ,we are not told 
in the story what conclusion she arrived
 at1 but we can imagine that her        
conclusion was that which women have    
arrived at1 in a similar situation1 to  
wit3 man is unjust and unreasonable1 but
 he is also stronger than ,i am1 and    
therefore1 while ,i shall follow his    
example1 ,i shall take good care to hide
 the feathers4  ,in the meantime1 we are
 crossing the bridge that leads from the
 jungles of our animal nature1 where    
prowl the beasts of deceit2 greed2      
selfishness2 sensuality2 vanity2        
avarice2 and domination2 to the         
,heights1 illumined by ,love set free4  
,let us not jostle and crowd each other 
too harshly1 while we are en route4     
,but1 of course1 we are confronted with 
the pertinent query as to what1 if any1 
absolute standard of morality there can 
be in matters of the sex relation4      
,freedom is so easily misconstrued into 
implying sex-promiscuity2 and monogamy1 
the final survival of the various       

systems of marriage1 has in its modern  
as well as in its ancient aspect so much
 of coercion2 and coercion is cited as  
the insuperable obstacle to attainment  
of the supreme state of spiritual       
sex-union1 that the would-be initiate   
becomes confused1 and is lost in a maze 
of paradoxes4  ,moral distinctions are  
too fine for the undeveloped man-animal1
 and that is the reason why man-made    
laws have been necessary4 ,the objection
 to them is not in their original       
intention1 but in their failure to die  
after they have become senile4  ,moral  
standards are as unstable as the        
shifting sands of the sea4  ,our moral  
sentiments1 say ,letourneau1 are simply 
habits incarnate in our brain1 or       
instincts artificially created2 and thus
 an act reputed culpable at ,paris1 or  
at ,london1 may be1 and frequently is1  
held innocent at ,calcutta or at ,pekin4
  ,and ,emerson1 the intellectual ,seer1
 says3 ,there is a soul at the centre of
 nature and over the will of every man1 

so that none of us can wrong the        
universe4  ,it is a colossal piece of   
impudent presumption1 when we come to   
think about it1 for ,man to ask the     
,supreme1 ,absolute1 ,infinite ,power to
 forgive him4 ,but1 if we cannot wrong  
the universe1 we can and we do wrong    
ourselves and each other as mortals4    
,that is the whole gist of the story4   
,we are constantly wronging ourselves   
and each other and calling upon ,god to 
support us in our strife when ,god      
cannot know aught save the call of      
,love4  ,the growing1 evolving race1 has
 found it necessary to establish certain
 loosely defined codes of morals and of 
social ethics1 in the same way that man 
has bridled the horse that he may       
control him2 incidentally1 we may       
observe that where this bridle formerly 
included blinders1 it now permits the   
horse to see whither he is going4       
,perhaps a brief survey of the standards
 of sexual morality which have upheld   
7or down-held1 just as we look at it7   

the human race until now1 may be        
illuminating4  ,it has been disputed1   
if1 under the matriarchal system of     
polygamy1 the moral condition of the    
people was higher than under the        
patriarchal system1 and probably no     
satisfactory conclusion can be reached  
upon this point1 save and except that   
any condition1 however primitive1 which 
permitted to the female freedom of      
choice1 must be better than that in     
which she is the object of coercion4    
,this is evident1 because the degree of 
coercion can never1 under any           
circumstances1 be as great with the male
 as with the female4  ,therefore1       
matriarchal polygamy is comparatively   
more nearly moral than is patriarchal   
polygamy1 and when all is said and done1
 historic morality is comparative4  ,but
 from the standpoint of modern idealism 
matriarchal polygamy seems to be a very 
low estimate of moral conduct2 and from 
the standpoint of sexual idealism it is 
a low standard2 a standard only a degree

 higher than that of patriarchal        
polygamy--a standard which is the lineal
 descendant of the ethics of the        
marriage-by-capture period of human     
evolution1 and from which we are today  
by no means free1 owing to economic1    
religious1 and ethical conditions4      
,there is a tacit acknowledgement on the
 part of the unorganized brotherhood of 
the ,enlightened1 that laws are made for
 the guidance of the masses4 ,unbridled 
ignorance is a dangerous force2 as      
dangerous as an unbridled horse1 unless 
it be that the horse exhibits           
intelligence enough to know where it is 
headed for and how to avoid obstacles en
 route4  ,and even as the laws of a     
community are made for the              
intellectually undeveloped1 so the      
commandments were compiled for the      
spiritual guidance of the uninitiated4  
,we trust that it will not shock the    
sensibilities of the pious when we      
affirm and maintain and insist that the 
ten commandments are not from ,god in   

the letter of the statements1 as        
postulated by ,theology4 ,they bear all 
the earmarks of the ancient ,hebrew     
race-mind1 which placed a man's         
neighbor's wife in the same category    
with his ox and his ass and his house   
and his other property and possessions4 
,there is but one commandment of the    
,most ,high ,god1 alias ,eros1 and that 
is so interwoven into the fabric of     
creation that we cannot break it if we  
would1 although we may and do break     
ourselves in trying to live in defiance 
of its immutability4  ,we cannot wrong  
the universe6  ,our moral standards1 in 
so far as they relate to the sexes1 are 
at present the logical descent of       
,hebrew adherence to phallic worship1   
engrafted into the ,roman outgrowth of  
the ,god-idea4 ,both the ,hebrew and the
 ,roman customs maintained the          
inferiority and the consequent          
subjugation of woman1 despite the fact  
that the ,roman ,church exalted the     
,virgin as a personality2 but the       

postulate of the ,church that ,mary was 
so exalted by a miracle1 which never    
could be repeated1 killed any forlorn   
hope which might have lurked within the 
female breast regarding a possible      
emulation of her example4 ,no other     
woman might do more than cringe and     
crawl and beg and whine2 or cajole and  
wheedle and buy the ,holy ,mother's     
intercession1 which intercession1 even  
if successful1 could at best but secure 
her an eternal job in the ,heavenly     
hierarchy1 where1 sexless1              
companionless1 mateless1 anmic1 she     
could look all day at a male ,god whom  
she could never presume to reach4       
,rather a lonesome outlook for eternity1
 and it is small wonder that woman got  
discouraged at the prospect4 ,the       
miracle is rather that she endured it so
 long4  ,but the ,roman system had at   
least one virtue4 ,it instilled into the
 mortal mind of its people a            
sub-conscious realization of the ideal  
of monogamy2 not an ideal monogamy by a 

long way1 but a monogamic ideal4 ,they  
are quite different2 but inasmuch as it 
is an outward semblance of a more       
spiritual conception of marriage than   
that of polygamy1 it is the highest     
ideal yet realized for the many1 and    
does duty in our present day and age1 as
 consistent with our superior           
civilization4  ,monogamy at least       
pretends to be a marriage by mutual     
consent2 and even in the pretense there 
is the germ of a hope2 but it would be  
folly to deny that underneath this      
appearance of marriage by mutual consent
 we see the remnants of the traditional 
idea of the right by purchase1 and      
therefore we have the jealousy that     
arises by virtue of our property rights4
  ,the right by purchase assuredly      
underlies our present-day marriage      
system1 although it is disguised as     
economic necessity2 as a religious      
sacrament2 and as a suitable or a       
brilliant catch--a type of marriage by  
capture which forms the ideal of our own

 upper-class women and which the        
housemaid copies in her limited way4    
,viewed from the surface evidence1 the  
average woman of today is1 as ,kipling  
says1 far more deadly than the male4    
,she is more unscrupulous in her        
methods2 more unreasonable in her       
demands2 more devoid of sentiment or    
sympathy2 more fickle in her desires and
 more nagging in her complaints4 ,but1  
when all is said and done1 we must admit
 that woman is only expressing her      
inheritance4 ,when she becomes balanced1
 the sexes will meet on common ground4  
,woman's demand for better physical     
environment2 for more comfort1 and more 
justice2 presages1 after all1 a higher  
and a more satisfactory idea of the     
marriage relationship4 ,underneath this 
materialistic demand1 there is the      
silent voice of the soul calling for a  
more ideal marriage relation4 ,it is the
 materialistic expression of a spiritual
 urge and will in time rise to higher   
ground4 ,it is a demand for a better    

state than that which our grandmothers  
enjoyed1 or endured4  ,we have seen in  
the history of marriage1 that the       
estimate of sexual immorality has been  
based1 all too frequently1 upon woman's 
disregard for the rights of her husband 
in her person4  ,for centuries the      
burden of sustaining a sexual moral     
standard has rested almost wholly upon  
the shoulders of the women2 and it is   
therefore natural that the present-day  
defiant attitude of many women toward   
the traditional standard should be      
viewed with alarm2 and there is more in 
this thought of alarm than the mere     
anxiety on the part of man to hold woman
 to her appointed task of guardian of   
marital morality4  ,although men may    
wander from the home and fireside1 it is
 a peculiar fact that they generally    
hold to a mental string by which they   
may find their way back again1 very     
frequently the more contented to be     
there for their wanderings4 ,but with a 
woman it is different4 ,once a woman has

 broken loose from the ties that have   
bound her to her inherited post of      
morality-preserver1 she seldom goes back
 again1 but keeps on her way until she  
finds that for which she seeks1 or gives
 up the search of her own volition4  ,is
 this1 then1 evidence that it is a      
woman's first duty to stay put when     
matrimonial exigencies have placed her  
in a specific pocket of the matrimonial 
billiard-table8  ,we believe not2 and   
this belief is founded upon the fact    
that the female principle1 which is1 we 
admit1 the centralizing1 centripetal    
force in the cosmos1 is not always      
manifested in the form of woman4 ,the   
balanced individual is bi-sexual1 even  
as the balanced twain-one is bi-sexual4 
,if man was all male principle1 and     
woman all female principle they would   
not be complementary1 but antithetical4 
,each must be balanced within himself   
and herself before they can merge into  
each other4  ,affinities are numerous1  
but mates are found but once2 otherwise1

 the problems that are being discussed  
here would never have arisen4  ,if1     
then1 as has been shown in the fact that
 only counterpartal unions are real1    
eternal and spiritually indissoluble2   
and that only true mates can thus unite1
 and when thus united have no desire to 
wander1 what becomes of our ideas of    
sexual infidelity8  ,since the very law 
of the ,cosmos has seen to it that we   
cannot be untrue to the only one who    
seemingly has a right to our fidelity in
 the sex relation and since this union  
can become general only by freeing love 
from bondage1 what becomes of the       
laboriously built up ethics of our      
social intercourse8  ,are they to be    
abandoned as of no value8  ,we can      
almost hear the storm of protest which  
the righteous reader may feel in duty   
bound to let loose at such a suggestion1
 if for no other reason than that       
protest is the accepted way of proving  
one's own virtuous tendencies4  ,in the 
early seventies1 a woman named ,virginia

 ,woodhull brought down upon her        
defenseless head the un-,christian-like 
abuse of the ,christian public by       
announcing a doctrine which seems to    
have been nothing more dreadful than    
that of an equal standard of morality   
for men and women4 ,the poor woman died 
broken-hearted1 it is said2 and yet     
nothing that we can unearth regarding   
her personal life and habits would seem 
to have warranted the cruel gibes that  
were hurled at her4 ,the dear old lady  
lived a most continent1 even ascetic    
life4  ,but the world has made rapid    
strides since that time1 and we trust   
that the urgent need of something       
reasonable and feasible upon the sex    
question will inspire the reader to an  
unprejudiced review of this chapter4 ,we
 would that it were possible to supply a
 modicum of understanding with each copy
 of this volume2 but since it is not1 we
 must take our chance with the average4 
,let us reason together3  ,expediency is
 the mother of morality in social       

organizations1 which have1 of necessity1
 unstable1 ever-changing standards4     
,these standards represent1 for some1   
ideals yet to be attained2 while for    
others they become mere mileposts on the
 path of ,evolution4 ,the individual    
reaches1 and then passes1 an accepted   
ideal2 gradually when a sufficient      
number1 constituting a majority1 have   
reached this ideal1 it ceases to be a   
standard for the social organization1   
and another ideal is substituted4  ,the 
laws of the cave-man called for         
self-restraint exercised toward his own 
immediate clan1 and this necessity for  
self-restraint was based upon nothing   
higher than the law of                  
self-preservation2 but gradually the    
sphere widened2 from clan to nation4 ,so
 do our ethical and moral standards     
enlarge4 ,traditional concepts are not  
necessarily wrong1 but they are almost  
sure to be inadequate to evolving       
,mankind4  ,formerly1 sexual morality   
consisted of the reservation of the     

person of a sister to the use of her    
brothers4 ,any infringement upon this   
moral code was punished by death to the 
woman and to her out-clannish lover4    
,and we have today an analogous example1
 although we are glad to say1 it is not 
the highest standard2 still1 if one's   
husband or wife violates the marriage   
vows1 it is more condonable1 if the     
co-respondent be of the wealthy class2  
and in monarchies it is accounted an    
honor to have been selected as the      
king's favorite4  ,the institution of   
prostitution which exists everywhere    
today has its standards in the different
 countries2 and the white races seem to 
think that their morality is superior to
 that of the ,orientals because the     
social standing of prostitutes in the   
,orient is not irretrievably lost2 they 
are permitted1 in the event of marriage1
 to resume social equality with other   
women4 ,among white people1 prostitutes 
have no other recourse than to sink     
lower and lower1 until utter degradation

 is reached4  ,we believe that the      
,oriental view of the situation is a far
 higher standard of morality than is our
 ,occidental attitude4  ,if there can   
lawfully be such an organization as is  
now being proposed as desirable in large
 cities1 namely1 a morals police1 it    
certainly should be instigated by a more
 sane purpose than that which is at the 
root of our present police guardianship4
  ,attempts at suppression of           
prostitution have hitherto been         
conducted on the principle that the     
women of that class are objectionable to
 the sight of our mothers and sisters   
and wives1 and the sinfulness of the    
hopelessly fallen ones has been the     
theme of press and pulpit4 ,and all the 
time the women of the half-world have   
resented this attitude as being unjust1 
and unfair1 and hypocritical1 and       
untenable4 ,they have known that if the 
act of selling their bodies to men is a 
crime against the community1 then more  
than half the feminine world is         

criminal4 ,and they have contended that 
since the respectable women were neither
 contacted nor exploited by them1 they  
cannot see wherein they offend society1 
provided the laws of sanitation and     
segregation are complied with4  ,in     
other words1 they have said that it is  
none of ,society's business whether they
 sell themselves to one man or to a     
number1 since they must pay the penalty4
 ,and their attitude is relatively      
right4 ,it is none of ,society's        
business whether a woman is a prostitute
 or not1 considered as an offense       
against ,society4 ,that is the wrong    
attitude toward this condition of our   
social disorder4  ,no prostitute offends
 you or me4 ,she1 poor creature1 offends
 herself1 and we offend her and         
ourselves by permitting social          
conditions that make for such           
degradation4 ,we are conniving with her 
to barter her birthright of freedom and 
real love for food and shelter1 and     
taint and tinsel1 whenever we encourage 

marriage on any other ground than that  
of true love1 and when we regard virtue 
as a matter of physical contact4  ,if we
 judge from the many plays which we see 
on the boards2 if we are influenced by  
the press and the pulpit2 we must       
acknowledge that the general idea of    
sexual morality is an absurd one4 ,the  
inference is that one special organ of a
 woman's physical body is the sole      
custodian of all virtue and all         
morality4 ,the accepted idea seems to be
 that if a woman is married her body is 
then the property of her husband4 ,her  
emotions1 her mind1 her heart1 her      
happiness1 her preferences do not count 
for anything4 ,the one act is made      
all-important4 ,on the husband's side1  
if he provides for his wife and family1 
he is justified in exacting the sole    
right to the wife's body1 and although  
his own heart and caresses may be given 
to another1 he justifies himself1 and   
the wife not infrequently feels         
satisfied1 as long as he provides well  

for her4 ,what is this but prostitution8
 ,the principle is the same as in the   
case of the recognized prostitute1      
although the conditions are easier for  
the woman1 and less cheapening of her   
womanhood1 but the difference is only in
 degree4  ,now1 a singular idea of      
fidelity1 a direct antithesis to the one
 just mentioned1 prevails among         
prostitutes1 when married either by law 
or by selection4  ,they may surrender   
their physical body to another1 for     
money1 and according to their idea they 
may yet remain true to the husband or   
lover1 because the matter is a business 
transaction4 ,the other man has only    
what he has purchased1 namely1 the      
physical body4 ,but should the woman    
permit another man to arouse in her a   
sexual response2 should another invade  
her mind1 absorb her thoughts1 or engage
 her heart1 the husband is outraged and 
the woman realizes her unfaithfulness4  
,all of which goes to show that up to   
the present time sexual morality has in 

itself no absolute uniform standard by  
which it can be measured and            
satisfactorily and convincingly         
presented to all persons1 as have other 
phases of morality1 such as honesty1    
justice1 mercy1 generosity1 friendship1 
fidelity to country1 and self-sacrifice 
to the good of humanity4  ,and although 
all these moral qualities have their    
bearing upon sexual morality1 they do   
not establish a uniform ideal of sexual 
morality4 ,honesty is honesty whether in
 ,paris1 ,london1 ,calcutta1 or ,pekin1 
but as has been previously observed1    
sexual morality is determined by local  
conditions4  ,can there1 then1 be       
established a universal standard of     
sexual morality8 ,there can1 but its    
universal acceptance is a remote        
probability1 albeit it will arrive some 
day4  ,first of all1 the sex relation   
must be absolutely free from sale2      
coercion2 or barter2 whether within the 
respectable sale of matrimony or of     
recognized prostitution4 ,it must be    

free from any erroneous idea of marital 
duty2 it must be exalted1 reverenced1   
deified1 in all its aspects1 from the   
impregnation of a plant1 to the sexual  
embrace of human lovers4  ,an ,utopian  
dream it appears1 if we note but one    
side of the picture4 ,if we consider the
 lightness with which so many men look  
upon the physical form of women2 and if 
we realize the attitude of so many women
 toward men1 in their conflict with     
life1 using the age-old dowry from      
mother ,eve1 of sex1 as a weapon of     
defense and of offense2 if we listen to 
the ribald songs that offend our ears   
and nauseate our souls1 not only in     
music-halls and on the streets1 but in  
supposedly cultured homes2 and above all
 if we contemplate the uncleanness of   
mind displayed by those who are really  
in earnest in their endeavor to uplift  
the moral tone of the world4  ,these    
latter are1 by far1 the worst enemies to
 the ,regeneration of ,sex4 ,a wise man 
once said1 ,save me from my friends2 ,i 

can protect myself against my           
enemies--and so it is in this instance4 
,most ,civic-,leaguers and members of   
,vice-,commissions 7why that name1      
anyway87 are infected with the bacteria 
of sex-degradation4 ,they really require
 a lengthy process of mental            
disinfection1 before attempting to      
handle so delicate a problem as this one
 of sexual uplift4  ,a woman member of a
 ,young ,people's ,civic ,league of the 
second largest city in the ,united      
,states recently declared in public     
print1 of the beautiful and chaste      
painting ,september ,morn1 that it was  
lewd1 filthy1 and suggestive of unclean 
things4 ,this type of woman is intrusted
 with the task of teaching youthful     
minds2 polluting them with the          
blasphemous affirmation that the        
,creation of the ,father-,mother ,god of
 the universe is lewd and filthy6  ,let 
us get this truth implanted in our      
mentality1 as it is inrooted in our     
souls1 namely3  ,sex is always the      

purest1 the holiest1 and the most sacred
 thing in the universe--because ,god is 
,him-,her-,self1 bi-sexual4 ,the        
righteousness of it cannot be determined
 by so fickle a thing as man's customs2 
cannot be dependent upon mortal laws4   
,this statement1 indisputable as it is1 
will nevertheless start a chain of      
thought which may lead to confusion2 and
 it is because of this tendency to      
confusion that the real issue is so     
frequently avoided4 ,but let us see if  
we may not dispel the confusion by a    
system of logical deduction4  ,one thing
 is certain4 ,the present condition of  
the ,sex-problem is sadly chaotic4 ,if  
we cannot hope to clarify it to the     
comprehension of the average1 we may at 
least do so for some4  ,one of the first
 objections to the acceptance of the    
statement that the sex relation is1 per 
se1 always right1 will be found in the  
conclusion to which the average mind    
immediately jumps3 ,ah1 then it is right
 for men and women who are depraved and 

licentious to live as they do2 it is    
right for husbands and wives to deceive 
each other1 and while pretending to be  
faithful to their marriage vows1 to     
secretly carry on flirtations and       
intrigues with other men and other      
women6  ,ask one hundred men or one     
hundred women this question3 ,is the    
sex-relation right or wrong8  ,the men  
will declare that it is right sometimes 
and wrong sometimes4 ,the women1 almost 
as a unit1 will do the same4            
,occasionally a woman will be found     
sufficiently illumined to give a sane   
answer4  ,following up the thoughtless  
answer with the request to illustrate1  
and the reply will be something like    
this3 ,well1 if people are married it is
 right1 but if they are not married it  
is wrong2 and even as this silly answer 
is given1 the person answering knows    
that it is puerile2 but since the       
,public ,mind prefers hypocrisy to      
,truth1 few have the temerity1 and fewer
 yet have the capability1 to utter      

,truth4  ,it would be as sensible to say
 that it is right for the sun to shine  
sometimes and wrong for it to shine some
 other times4 ,it is right for the sun  
to shine4 ,this is all the answer that  
there is1 and all that is needed4       
,whether the sunshine bestows life and  
health1 or decay and death1 is entirely 
up to us4 ,the sun does its part4 ,it is
 fulfilling the inexorable law of       
,nature1 and is therefore right4  ,but  
of even greater importance in the       
universe is this law of sex4 ,the law is
 forever and always right4 ,our concept 
of it may be right or it may be         
diseased4 ,as a matter of fact it is1 in
 all too many cases1 diseased4 ,if it   
were not1 there would be no disease in  
the world4  ,how is it possible to have 
a perfect flower--a healthy1 normal and 
wholesome sprout from a diseased root8  
,the root of all life is sex4 ,we have  
thought disease into it1 and the only   
remedy is to change our thought toward  
the function4 ,this may be done by      

realizing that the sex-relation is      
always pure1 holy1 sacred--the bi-une   
,god of the universe4 ,this statement is
 quite different from saying that people
 are always right or sacred in their    
sex-relations4  ,to say that the        
sex-relation is always right under the  
institution of marriage and always wrong
 outside of it1 is a lie4 ,a lie cannot 
bring back health to either a person or 
a principle4 ,truth is the only thing   
that can make us whole--and the first   
office of ,truth1 as everyone knows1 is 
to make us free4 ,we cannot be whole    
until we are free1 and the essential    
thought to be free from1 is an attempt  
to keep alive the lie that the          
righteousness of ,sex1 per se1 depends  
upon marriage4  ,does the libertine     
believe in the sacredness of sex8       
,never4 ,does the prostitute claim for  
herself spotless purity8 ,if she did1   
she would not sell herself for money4   
,do men and women who are living in     
secret unfaithfulness hold exalted      

ideals of sex8  ,if they did1 they would
 not maintain a life of deceit4  ,these 
people live as they do1 because they    
have divorced sex from love4 ,they agree
 absolutely with the blind moralists who
 regard ,sex as a human                 
plaything--something which may be called
 bad one day and good the next1         
according to whether it is viewed from  
afar or near4  ,does anyone imagine that
 when ,society shall have established   
the one standard of morality replacing  
the double standard which now persecutes
 the woman only1 for infringement upon  
,society's one demand1 that of          
concealment1 that the answer to         
sex-degradation will have been found8   
,a single standard is an improvement    
upon the old habit of stoning the woman 
only and letting the man go free4 ,but  
why stone anybody8  ,history fails to   
record a single instance where ,society 
has succeeded in improving either itself
 or its victims by the procedure4 ,the  
best that can be said of the stoning    

habit is that it distracts attention    
from ourselves4  ,persons who hold      
exalted ideas of the function of sex1   
realizing that a force so eternal and   
universal must be disassociated from    
man-made regulations1 are not in danger4
  ,such as these will not foster deceit 
nor profligacy1 any more than they will 
cringe and crawl under the lash of      
,society's disapproval1 should they     
encounter it4 ,they know that if they   
would find the highest good1 they must  
serve ,truth first of all1 no matter how
 high the price of such devotion4       
,,chapter ,x                            
,,the ,,pathway ,,of ,,love   ,love is  
the ,great ,reality4  ,everything else  
in this world of ,experience is either  
tributary to love or it is an           
unsatisfying substitute for love2 or a  
counterfeit of love4 ,love is the one   
cohesive1 unifying1 constructive force1 
and it is at the same time the only     
liberating force4  ,hatred1 as          
exemplified in warfare1 may sometimes   

appear to free a people from the rule of
 a tyrant1 but unless love be at the    
root of the casus belli1 other and more 
direful disasters will follow in the    
wake of seeming victory4  ,there is an  
erroneous idea1 quite general among     
,christian people1 that ,death frees the
 spirit from the bonds that hold it to  
the mortal and the incomplete4 ,death   
only drops off the garment of the flesh2
 there are innumeral sheathings yet to  
be shed1 before the soul grows the wings
 with which to soar to the celestial    
realms1 where ,love reigns supreme4     
,love is the only power on earth or in  
the spheres1 that can liberate us either
 from our own prejudices and hatreds and
 fears2 or from the limitations and     
attractions of the animal-man4  ,love   
is1 indeed1 the ,alpha and ,omega of    
,life4 ,there is no other ,god but      
,thee1 has been the cry of every race on
 this globe1 apostrophizing the         
unrecognized little baby-,god1          
personified and presented to the        

race-mind as ,horus2 or as ,krishna1 or 
as ,christ2 but always it is ,love1 the 
,invisible1 the ,beautiful ,one1 who is 
adored4  ,ingersoll with his wonderful  
gift of word-painting1 and inspired by  
that great love of humanity which       
characterized him1 has said3  ,love is  
the only bow on life's dark cloud4 ,it  
is the morning and evening star4 ,it    
shines on the babe and sheds its        
radiance on the tomb4 ,it is the mother 
of art2 inspirer of poet1 patriot and   
philosopher4 ,it is the air and light of
 every heart2 builder of every home2    
kindler of every fire on the hearth2 it 
was the first dress of immortality4 ,it 
fills the world with melody1 for music  
is the voice of love4 ,love is the      
magician1 the enchanter that changes    
worthless things to joy and makes right 
royal queens and kings of common clay4  
,it is the perfume of that wonderful    
flower1 the heart1 and without that     
sacred passion that divine swoon1 we are
 less than beasts1 but with it--earth is

 ,heaven and we are gods4  ,it would be 
superfluous to state here1 that ,love   
has ever been recognized as the supreme 
prize1 lacking which all other gifts of 
life are worthless4  ,it is admitted    
that ,love is almost the only thing in  
this age of commercial supremacy which  
can not be bought4 ,though it may be    
bartered for4  ,although it be          
unreservedly admitted that ,love is the 
all-powerful and magic solvent which    
transmutes all baser emotions into the  
higher1 the general inference will be   
drawn that this type of love is not     
sexual4 ,it will be termed parental2    
humanitarian1 self-sacrificing1 or      
altruistic love1 and the point may be   
taken that if humanity had developed    
nothing higher than the love which is   
manifested in the sex instinct1 the     
world would be a sorry one indeed1 since
 sexual love1 as we have witnessed its  
ascent from protoplasm to man1 has been1
 in most instances1 a blind urge toward 
personal gratification1 not more lofty  

than the need of supplying the craving  
for food4 ,this is quite true of        
animals1 and of the lower types of      
animal-man2 not necessarily the earliest
 types of men1 but the lowest types1    
which we still have with us but happily 
in decreasing numbers4  ,but even among 
animals we find evidences of something  
vague1 indefinite1 but insistent which  
leads the animal to exhibit what we term
 a tendency toward selection2 and in the
 animal also1 through the exigencies of 
sexual love1 we find parental love1 and 
here again we note a peculiarity which  
ascends also into the family life of    
humans1 namely1 that in some instances  
what we have called the maternal love1  
the gentle1 care-taking1 guarding and   
protecting love1 is demonstrated by the 
male4 ,this is less common with the     
animals than with ,man1 but it is       
sometimes found and proves the existence
 of the evolutionary trend toward       
balance in the individual1 as well as in
 the family4  ,if maternal love were    

confined strictly to the female parent1 
and the procreative instinct were the   
legitimate inheritance of the male only1
 we could never hope for a perfect      
sexual union1 for the very cogent reason
 that the love of the male would never  
equal that of the female1 since our     
capacity grows by becoming diffused4    
,as the world stands today1 parental    
love takes a higher place in the life of
 the family1 and of the nation and of   
the race 7the family on a larger scale71
 than does love of husband or wife2 and 
over and above even parental love we    
have been accustomed to place the love  
of ,god4  ,now we know that there are   
many who claim that their love of this  
abstract ,god supercedes that of love   
for their family1 but we may tacitly    
agree to take this statement as either  
an admission of fear of the ,unknown or 
the realization that there are heights  
and depths of the love-principle which  
they have not yet penetrated1 something 
to which the spirit soars4 ,they        

intuitively recognize that there is some
 perfected state to which we aspire1    
else human love would never flower into 
its full possibilities4  ,and so when we
 declare that we love ,god above all    
other loves2 more than wife or husband2 
children or parents2 we are but         
admitting that we realize in our        
interior nature that we have not yet    
loved any human being with as great a   
love as we are capable of4  ,if any one 
holds the mistaken idea--and it is one  
that is very generally held--that the   
perfect sex union can be attained by no 
finer phase of emotion than that        
expressed in procreation2 and that in   
order to develop the highest quality of 
sex-love1 he must eschew all other      
phases of manifestation1 and concentrate
 the forces of his being in the         
direction of sexual expression1 he will 
meet with dire defeat4 ,the laws of the 
cosmos cannot be broken4 ,we are        
constantly confronted with the          
admonition1 the child of ,fear1 to be   

careful not to break the laws of ,god4  
,we need not worry at all about the laws
 of ,god1 whether we call these ,cosmic 
,law1 or ,nature1 or ,divine ,providence
 or something else4 ,our concern is with
 ourselves4 ,neither need we worry      
whether our neighbor obeys the moral    
code as we see it4 ,so long as he does  
not refuse to us our right to follow our
 own ideals1 we may permit him the same 
liberty4  ,god1 as manifested in the    
cosmic law of transmutation1 will take  
care of ,him-,her-,self4 ,morality can  
not be extinguished4 ,love cannot be    
killed by men4 ,we can only hurt        
ourselves in trying4  ,love is neither  
fickle1 capricious nor sly1             
notwithstanding tomes of seeming        
evidence to the contrary4 ,love is the  
most perfect mathematician in the       
universe4 ,with whatsoever measure a man
 or a woman metes out love1 with that   
same measure it is returned4 ,neither is
 ,love blind4 ,love is depicted thus1   
because he is not concerned with        

appearances1 but with realities4 ,he is 
not gazing without1 but within4 ,he is  
doing his best1 the poor little         
neglected ,love-god1 with the material  
at hand since he must fulfill the law of
 his being4 ,he seeks to unite lovers in
 their interior nature1 but as each of  
the would-be happy pair is bent on      
gazing without1 instead of within1 he is
 handicapped4 ,and when unhappiness     
follows1 they blame the blindness of    
,love1 instead of realizing that ,he is 
depicted with a bandage over ,his eyes1 
to indicate that ,love is an interior   
quality4 ,so too1 the ,egyptian ,god    
,horus1 the ,god of ,love1 was depicted 
with his finger on his lips1 to typify  
the truth that true love is not noisy1  
blustering1 jealous1 burning1 ranting1  
protesting4 ,he is silent2 soft2        
melting2 blissful2 magnetic2 uniting4   
,our noisy civilization1 seeking        
happiness in ,things1 mistakes          
protestations and appearances for       
realities1 and so modern marriages are  

consummated on this basis1 and the      
caricaturists have depicted ,cupid as   
having exchanged his love-darts for     
dollars1 but this is a slander on the   
little god who wouldn't know a dollar if
 he could see one4 ,it is not true that 
one knows what one sees2 one sees what  
one knows1 declared a clever ,frenchman1
 and as the average modern bride and    
bridegroom are forced1 or think they    
are1 by modern standards of living1 to  
know dollars better than they know      
,love1 their perverted vision sees      
,cupid's arrows tipped with the dollar  
mark4 ,but even the dollar mark spells  
,,us1 united1 and if they are indeed    
truly united in love1 wealth untold is  
theirs1 and if they are not thus united 
then indeed are they poor in happiness1 
which is the only real poverty4  ,but   
even in the very failure to attain      
happiness in things1 married couples    
have learned or they are learning1 that 
there is an interior nature which must  
be considered if marital happiness is   

expected4  ,in all too many instances it
 may take many experiences and the road 
to the heights may for a time be lost   
but let us remember that ,love never    
faileth4  ,it has been said that love   
makes gods of men1 and we have taken    
this phrase as a charming bit of        
hyperbole1 whereas it is a literal      
truth1 because when two individual souls
 have rounded and balanced their natures
 by means of love1 they come together in
 an eternal union1 and are immortal2 in 
their flesh they have seen ,god1 and the
 pilgrimage is ended4  ,there is a      
phrase current at the present day1      
belonging to slang1 that universal      
language of the masses1 the ,volapuk of 
the melting-pot4 ,it comes to us        
simultaneously with the affinity-wave   
and the soul-mate quest2 and it is both 
pertinent and timely1 although by no    
means always wisely applied4 ,it is the 
expression ,i have found my             
seek-no-farther2 he 7or she7 is the     
,real ,thing4  ,life is a succession of 

experiences in the quest of immortality4
 ,immortality would be a curse instead  
of a blessing if attained alone4  ,even 
the attainment of so unworthy an        
ambition as riches is a mockery if      
unshared by others4 ,fame is like a     
ruined and deserted castle to the one   
who has achieved it1 unless there be the
 one other to share it4 ,even the       
philosopher1 the philanthropist1 the    
humanitarian1 he whose love nature is   
supposed to find satisfaction in making 
others happy--can not realize the       
completeness and fullness of joy1 unless
 there is the one mate with whom he may 
share his altruistic work2 or lacking   
this1 he looks to the ,life ,beyond for 
the completeness which he does not find 
here4  ,renan says3 ,one reason why     
religion remains on such a material     
plane for many is because they have     
never known a great and vitalizing love2
 a love where intellect1 spirit and sex 
finds its perfect mate4  ,verily1 love  
is the only vitalizing power in the     

universe2 and when denied the interior  
union which should exist between a      
conjoining pair1 ,love does the best ,he
 can1 and infuses into the relationship 
as much of the divine nectar as they    
will accept4  ,there is no impure love4 
,i repeat3 ,there is no impure love4    
,the impurity is in the mortal mind of  
man1 obstructing his vision until he    
fails to see the purity of that which   
fain would lift him from the ,slough of 
,despond to the ,heights of ,bliss4  ,if
 love be always pure1 if it be always   
the uplifting1 unifying1 constructive   
power of the universe1 what becomes of  
the apparent fact that men have sinned  
for love of woman2 that for love of man1
 women have lost their self-respect1    
their hope of ,heaven2 and have sunk to 
depths below that of the brute creation8
  ,what becomes of the all too many     
instances where human nature appears to 
love vice2 to be under the spell1 as it 
were of a passionate love for all that  
is ignoble and defiling8 ,how1 then1 can

 we say that love is always pure when it
 leads to such disaster8  ,love never   
leads to disaster1 though love may      
follow wheresoever the erring mind of   
man leads1 and thus ,love is all too    
frequently dragged from his true place  
of exaltation1 and brought into the     
arena of human conflict4 ,love is no    
fighter2 ,he never opposes2 ,he only    
concurs2 ,he unites if there is anything
 with which he can establish an affinity
 of union4  ,egoism is the arch-enemy of
 love1 selfishness is the manifestation 
of egoism4 ,selfishness seeks to        
possess2 it is selfishness that causes a
 man to commit crime1 in order that he  
may bedeck the woman he loves with      
jewels and fine raiment4 ,he is buying  
her bodily presence with the baubles    
which he vainly believes will bind her  
to him2 and he must be taught the lesson
 of the ,yoga sutras not this way2 not  
this way2 and the more worthy he is of  
redemption1 the more certainly will he  
be caught in the trap of his own making1

 lest he really perish2 whereas by      
seeming defeat1 outward defeat1 he may  
learn the true path of inwardness4      
,certainly ,love is the only guide to   
whom he may safely trust his redemption4
  ,if a woman really sinks into the     
depths of degradation through what      
appears to be love1 it is because       
selfishness and vanity have temporarily 
supplanted ,love4 ,but there is another 
side to the question4 ,society has very 
erroneous ideas of success and failure2 
and in looking at these opposite ends of
 the same pole1 ,society may be standing
 on it's head4  ,a story illustrative of
 this inverted view of success is worth 
repeating4  ,a young ,englishman of     
aristocratic family1 tired of the       
inanities of social life1 and denied the
 privilege of entering the commercial   
world1 emigrated to the ,south ,seas4   
,it was reported at home that he had    
married a native ,samoan woman and was  
living the simple life of the           
,islanders4 ,english society1 when his  

name was mentioned at all1 spoke of him 
with hushed voices and with a what a    
pity y' know manner as of one who had   
sunk below the depths of ordinary       
failure4 ,subsequently a friend visited 
,samoa and found the young man enjoying 
life and evidently supremely content4   
,in the course of conversation the      
visitor chanced to speak of a mutual    
friend who had been rather wild in the  
days when they both knew him1 and       
thinking to impart agreeable news to the
 exile1 the visitor eagerly assured him 
that ,sir ,arthur is respectably married
 and settled down now whereupon the     
self-constituted exile commiseratingly  
responded with3 what a pity2 and he was 
such a decent sort1 too4 ,so we may see 
that there is much in the point of view4
  ,happiness is the final test of       
success or failure2 and we may trust    
this test1 because no one can be happy  
in any other than the progressive1      
upward-trending life4 ,dissipation has  
never been a satisfactory substitute for

 happiness4 ,wealth is valueless to the 
possessor if it shuts out love2 and if  
love be present1 wealth holds but an    
inconsequential place4  ,however it be1 
the pathway of ,love is long2 and       
between the force of attraction which   
unites two atoms in chemical affinity1  
and the union of two perfected human    
beings1 in whom ,love and ,wisdom are   
balanced1 there are many degrees of the 
manifestation of ,love1 and the question
 inevitably arises what shall we do with
 those marriages that are not yet       
perfect8  ,if1 as here premised1 there  
is in the entire universe but one mate  
for each man and each woman2 and if the 
union of perfect mates is the only truly
 spiritual union2 if this union         
precludes the possibility of temptation 
in any other direction1 what is to be   
done with all the marriages which we    
know to be imperfect2 wherein it is     
evident that soul-union is not present8 
,are they immoral1 and are they to be   
abandoned8 ,and is marital infidelity in

 such instances immoral8  ,it is4       
,infidelity is always immoral1 because  
all deceit and deception and dishonesty 
are immoral4  ,let us see what          
constitutes infidelity1 irrespective of 
marriage4 ,infidelity is to be          
unfaithful to a trust imposed2 to betray
 a confidence2 to break a promise4 ,this
 is the abstract definition and it is   
the only definition that will withstand 
analysis1 whether applied to the        
marriage vows or to other promises and  
pledges4  ,obviously the answer to this 
question1 then1 is to either not impose 
upon oneself or upon another vows2 or1  
if we do so impose1 not to break them2  
but if vows are not to be broken1 they  
may1 thank ,heaven1 be dissolved4  ,and 
surely the marriage ceremony of the     
future will not impose vows or promises1
 because intelligent men and women must 
rise superior to the necessity for bonds
 and promises4 ,a marriage ceremony is1 
even at its very highest1 when the      
contracting persons are spiritually     

mated1 nothing more than announcement to
 the society of which they are members1 
of the fact of their mutual agreement to
 live outwardly1 as well as inwardly1 in
 sexual union4  ,we make too much of the
 marriage ceremony and too little of the
 fitness for marriage4 ,the business of 
the clergyman is altogether too much    
confined to seeing whether a couple is  
respectably bonded1 and altogether too  
little as to whether they are           
spiritually united4  ,possession6 that  
is the word that spells unhappiness1 in 
married life2 each wants to possess the 
other2 neither one tries for the spirit 
of union4 ,possession cannot be divorced
 from deceit4  ,vows and promises       
challenge us to keep them1 and because  
our pathway leads upward to freedom1 we 
constantly find these vows and promises 
staring us in the face and daring us to 
advance4 ,we must substitute mutual     
confidence for vows4 ,vows are childish 
and puerile4 ,if we cannot keep faith   
without vows then are we sadly lacking  

in faith and should cultivate it by     
offering to others the freedom of action
 we would have ourselves4 ,when the time
 comes1 as it will1 that a husband and  
wife can talk it over in a friendly1    
mutually helpful frame of mind1 when    
either one is attracted by another1     
there will be no further opportunity for
 infidelity2 and the sooner we rid the  
world of a belief in sin and immorality1
 the sooner will ,love reign4  ,it is   
said of the sages of ,india that they   
can live in the jungles and the         
ferocious tigers will not harm them2 how
 do they accomplish this8  ,they have   
disassociated themselves from ferocity4 
,they do not desire to crush or kill the
 tiger4 ,their minds are so filled with 
love and compassion that there is no    
point of connection between them and the
 destructive instinct in the beast4     
,when we get away from the fear of      
impure love2 when we get away from the  
tremendous load of belief in evil which 
keeps the back bent and the eyes lowered

 to the dust1 we will be ready to meet  
the pure and perfect love when it comes2
 and when we are fit for it we will meet
 it and when we have found this pearl of
 great price1 all doubt and fear1 all   
jealousy2 all dissatisfaction will      
vanish4 ,there will be no fear of losing
 each other4 ,the union is an interior  
one1 and even though seas divide and    
mountains vast1 rear their proud crests 
'tween thee and me1 the call of soul to 
soul will be felt and answered4 ,byron  
says3    ,there are two souls of equal  
flow1   ,whose gentle streams so calmly 
run1   ,that when they part--they part8 
,oh no1   ,they cannot part1 those souls
 are one4  ,with a sentiment such as    
this between two beings1 what need for  
vows and promises1 and bonds8  ,it is   
customary for writers on the sex        
question to emphatically1 even          
feverishly1 emphasize the fact that they
 have no intention of implying that they
 would do away with the bonds of        
matrimony2 and although this conclusion 

is inevitable where one's intellect is  
active and the faculty of deduction     
brought into play1 yet the false modesty
 that prevails and the prejudices that  
blind the eyes of the multitude1 and    
above all1 the tendency of the          
undeveloped race-mind to impute personal
 motives to such as would1 if permitted1
 lead them to a freer1 and consequently 
a purer life1 impel the writer to deny  
that which is1 finally1 the very point  
at issue4  ,in the interest of ,truth1  
we are compelled to state that we would 
do away with bonds4 ,we would substitute
 therefor mutual agreements1 subject to 
renewal or repudiation within certain   
defined and mutually helpful conditions4
 ,vows and bonds and oaths are the      
crutches of the crippled human race4 ,we
 need not always walk lame4  ,it may be 
argued that man is still largely animal2
 yes1 but the surest way to keep him so 
is to treat him like an animal4 ,if we  
remind him that he is also a man and    
that he may be a god2 and if we point   

out to him the way in which he may      
accomplish this transmutation1 no man   
has so little intelligence that he will 
not attempt to follow1 when assured that
 ,god-hood means a bliss so great that  
he can hardly imagine it2 that it means 
cessation of the endless round of births
 and deaths from which ,gautama1 the    
,buddha1 sought to free himself4        
,mankind has always been promised       
immortality through spiritual           
union--with what8 ,an abstract principle
 called ,god1 or ,aum or any other      
impersonal formless all-inclusive       
,being8  ,no1 but with his mate4  ,on   
this point we trust that there will not 
remain any obscurity4 ,there is no      
higher ,god than ,love4 ,there is no    
higher love than sexual-love in its     
highest manifestation4 ,the more we     
truly love1 the more love flows into and
 through our consciousness1 until from a
 tiny little pearly drop of the wine of 
life we ascend to the ,olympian ,heights
 and imbibe floods of the nectar of the 

,gods4  ,even the libertine1 that pauper
 in the realm of ,love1 wants the       
perfect life4 ,his soul is forever      
hungry for that which he gropingly tries
 to catch and chain and possess2 and    
which by virtue of these same desires   
will evade him until he ceases thus to  
seek1 and instead of demanding          
possession of the object of his desires1
 he asks for union4 ,union is interior2 
possession is always and ever limited to
 exterior contact4 ,they who would enter
 the sanctuary and defile the ,holy of  
,holies are saved from such a load of   
self-inflicted sin2 they cannot if they 
would4 ,there is but one key which will 
open the golden gate to heaven4 ,the way
 chosen by the libertine is in exactly  
the opposite direction4  ,are all       
marriages that are not soul-mate unions 
immoral8 ,most certainly not4 ,are all  
unions that are not married immoral4    
,most certainly not4  ,we have made an  
attempt to define sexual immorality and 
we have concluded that as yet there is  

no absolute standard in civilized or    
uncivilized ethics1 since1 as           
,letourneau points out1 what is immoral 
in ,pekin or ,calcutta may be moral in  
,paris or ,london4 ,truth is adherence  
to facts in whatever section of the     
world4 ,tolerance2 sympathy2 charity2   
may be clearly defined wherever we roam4
 ,sexual immorality has no stable       
standards4 ,we here suggest one and     
submit that it is the only one possible 
of universal concurrence4 ,it is based  
upon personal freedom4 ,wherever the    
sexual relation is made a convenience2  
or where either one marries in the face 
of his or her own realization that there
 is no love bestowed1 that relationship 
is immoral4 ,thus1 it will be seen that 
sexual immorality is independent of     
marriage1 and cannot be estimated by    
law4 ,marriage for money2 for position2 
for convenience2 for anything other than
 a desire for mutual helpfulness1 is    
immoral4 ,indulgence in the sexual act  
for selfish gratification without regard

 to the welfare of each other2 for      
money2 or pastime2 or for any motive    
other than a reverential expression of  
an unselfish love1 is immoral and is a  
prostitution of the divine office of    
sex4  ,but1 though not all sex          
relationships can be perfect and        
eternal1 yet all may1 if we desire1 be  
moral4 ,and all moral and sexual        
relationships must1 and will1 lead to   
perfect sex-union1 whenever the time    
comes that either one is ready for the  
completement4 ,this truth need not1 and 
will not1 disrupt any happy marriages4  
,if the ,church had not made the mistake
 of teaching the fallacy that sex-love  
is a strictly earthly or mortal         
function1 divorcing ,sex from pure love2
 and if the ,theology had not tried to  
substitute the love of1 and union with1 
an abstract ,creator for love of mates  
in soul-union1 perhaps there would be   
exhibited less impatience of the        
restraints of marriage4  ,but with a    
cat-and-dog married life on the one hand

 and the prospect of an inane1 blank1   
and sexless union with an abstract      
,god-idea on the other1 it is small     
wonder that mortal consciousness has    
rebelled1 and has decided to take its   
chances with ,hell1 rather than to      
forego the happiness which is           
intuitively sensed as being the direct  
prerogative of perfect mating4  ,if this
 ,god-idea had not been presented as an 
eternal1 unescapable finality1 there    
might have been hope2 but to fly about a
 throne endlessly1 night and day1       
singing1 ,i want to be nothing2 nothing2
 only to lie at ,his feet--the prospect 
appalls6  ,small wonder that the        
conclusion has been deduced that life is
 too short for anything like domestic   
misery1 when domestic happiness is the  
only happiness we know1 and that is to  
cease at death6  ,but1 if we take the   
truthful view of marriage and of heaven2
 if we realize that mortal life is      
,experience2 that as we learn by        
experience1 we acquire knowledge2 as we 

accumulate knowledge1 we begin to       
glimpse wisdom2 and that when we have   
sufficient ,wisdom and sufficient ,love1
 we graduate into the classification of 
,god-hood1 immortality2 and that        
immortality means union with our mate2  
sex-union1 in all that constitutes its  
highest and most satisfying aspect as we
 know it1 with infinitely more of beauty
 and love and bliss1 there is an        
incentive to aspire4  ,love is the only 
way that immortality can be attained4   
,it cannot be taken1 like degrees of    
secret societies4 ,it cannot be         
purloined1 or feigned4 ,fear has never  
made people good4 ,the doctrine of      
punishment has never deterred the       
sinner4 ,even in his apparent acceptance
 of the doctrine of sin and of          
consequent punishment1 the poor sinner  
has known better4 ,humanity has         
progressed in spite of the fear that has
 dwarfed our stature4  ,in the new day1 
with hope ahead and fear transmuted into
 a wise patience1 this earth may yet be 

a fit dwelling-place for the gods4      
,leigh ,hunt says3 ,love is a personal  
proof that something good and earnest   
and eternal is meant us2 such a bribe   
and foretaste of bliss being given us to
 keep us in the lists of time and       
progression2 and when the world has     
realized what love urges it to obtain1  
perhaps death will cease and all the    
souls which love has created crowd back 
at its summons to inhabit their         
perfected world4  ,we are prone to      
consider such statements as only so many
 beautiful words--elusive1 ethereal1 and
 descriptive of something that is always
 in the future2 but if it be always in  
the future it will never be ours2 we    
cannot catch up with it2 and thus it    
becomes a mockery4 ,these prophetic     
utterances are literal truths4  ,let us 
confide to you a little secret3 ,we are 
as much spirit now as we will be when   
death has unloosed the bindings of our  
disguise--the body4 ,the real of each of
 us is what we are now1 in our interior 

nature4  ,while we are building the     
business which sustains our physical    
body2 while we are studying law or      
medicine or philosophy or religion or   
whatsoever1 we are at the same time     
developing the interior nature which we 
are now1 and which we will be when the  
life of the body ceases4 ,not all       
business men are alike1 and yet1 if     
business were their only reality1 they  
must needs be all the same for employing
 the same methods4 ,not all doctors are 
alike although they graduate from the   
same school of medicine4 ,the inner     
entity that we are1 stands or falls in  
the final test1 by the motives2 the     
desires2 the sentiments2 the sympathies2
 the generosities2 the forgiveness2 the 
kind impulses2 the pities2 the          
charities2 the tolerances2 we feel while
 we are apparently engrossed in the     
outer life4 ,together1 these little     
impulses1 perhaps forgotten in the rush 
of the day's seemingly important        
business affairs1 come finally to be the

 ladder by which we climb to the        
spiritual heights where the bliss of    
true and perfect1 melting1 merging1     
liquid-love1 of the one and only mate   
awaits us4  ,one thing more4 ,this also 
is a secret4 ,perhaps you will not even 
believe it1 but it is true3 ,poets are  
the practical members of our crazy      
civilization4 ,business men are         
practical only when they are also1 and  
above all1 idealists4                   
,,chapter ,,xi                          
,,the ,,law ,,of ,,transmutation        
,external life is a succession of       
picture blocks with which we have       
builded our thoughts into shapes and    
forms manifest to the mortal senses4    
,but back of every act there is the     
invisible ideal which prompted it1 so   
that to the one who has the interior    
vision2 one who looks at life from the  
citadel of his own interior nature      
instead of merely sensing it by external
 contact1 every material thing tells its
 interior story2 everything has an      

esoteric or occult meaning4 ,it is said 
that mystic truths have been veiled in  
symbolical language2 but to those who   
know the language of symbolism1 there is
 no veil2 what seems so is due to the   
refractory character of the mind which  
is limited to sense consciousness4      
,there are two words much used in this  
day of the ,dawn which give the key to  
the trend of the cosmic cycle upon which
 the earth has entered4 ,the word union1
 or its equivalent1 enters into almost  
every phase of our busy life as well as 
into ethical and philosophical thought4 
,this word1 with much that it stands    
for1 has superseded the word agreement1 
or combination or partnership1 formerly 
used4 ,union means something more       
interior1 than do these other words1    
even when applied to commercial issues4 
,the business man says to his partners  
let us unite on this question4 ,they are
 already partners1 but unless there is a
 unity of thought and ideals1 their     
partnership is an unsatisfactory and    

unfruitful one4 ,we have labor unions   
which are intended to suggest a         
solidarity of effort2 a merging of      
interests2 a welding together into one  
thought-force1 of those who enter the   
organization4 ,the fullness of meaning  
of this word union is not adequately    
expressed in the words lodge1 or club1  
or any of the terms used to designate an
 organization of men in social or       
commercial combination4  ,in union there
 is strength2 but in partnership1 or in 
clubs1 there may be no quality of union1
 although there is the outward bond of  
fellowship4 ,i shall look into this we  
say when we want to know more of a      
subject than appears on the surface4 ,we
 want to know the within4 ,we want to   
fathom the interior meaning2 to get     
below the surface1 or the appearance of 
it4 ,this is the other word of vital    
import--the word within4 ,we see it     
everywhere like a signpost directing our
 footsteps toward home4  ,the ,master   
,jesus said that the immortal kingdom   

was within1 but the ,christian world    
evidently has not believed ,him4 ,he    
also told those who would listen to     
,him1 that there was but one commandment
 that was truly spiritual1 but as he did
 not come to destroy anything that      
existed1 but only to transmute it1 ,he  
paid no attention to the commandments   
already in vogue1 but contented ,himself
 with a repetition of the one and only  
commandment of the ,father-,mother ,god 
,principle which begat him3 ,that ye    
love one another4  ,now we are being    
told from the housetops and from the    
streets and through all the channels of 
the physical senses to look within4     
,that which you are--not what you appear
 to be to the eyes of the               
sense-conscious--but that which you are 
in your interior nature1 is what counts 
to you4 ,the writer who writes because  
he is paid to write salable stuff1 harps
 upon the necessity for efficiency in   
the commercial game2 but when the word  
is impartially considered efficiency    

consists in the long run in reliability1
 and reliability is measured by one's   
honesty2 integrity2 square-dealing2 wise
 judgment--interior qualities all4 ,it  
matters not whether the skin be white or
 black or brown or yellow or green2     
whether you are of imposing stature or  
but four feet tall2 it is what you are  
within that constitutes true efficiency4
  ,so the kingdom whatever it may be    
whether of heaven or hell2 of love2 or  
of power2 or of ambition2 the kingdom is
 within4 ,the source of your power is in
 the interior of your nature4  ,if we go
 to slang1 which offers the line of     
least resistance to the ,cosmic ,law1 we
 find that the cue has been given over  
and over again to those who are         
interiorly awake to receive it4 ,you are
 not in on this1 has been said to one   
who was left out of some supposedly     
desirable thing2 or you are not in it1  
meaning that you are not up to the      
required standard4 ,even as the walls of
 a building only imperfectly indicate   

the nature of that which is within1 that
 which the building stands for2 that    
which it symbolizes1 so physical        
appearances are symbolical hieroglyphs  
of the inner nature4  ,learn to look    
into the hearts of men admonishes the   
spiritual teacher4 ,as a man thinketh in
 his heart so is he4 ,the character of  
the heart is the test1 and though a     
man's lips utter words that are at      
variance with his inner nature1 yet if  
we have learned to look within1 we are  
not deceived4 ,this then is the key to  
the kingdom--interior vision4  ,words   
are like buildings2 like personalities2 
they have their exterior and their      
interior message4 ,knowledge may be     
accumulated2 piled up like a mountain of
 possessions4 ,but knowledge may not    
bestow one grain of true wisdom4 ,it is 
only as we extract the interior message 
from knowledge that we attain wisdom4   
,we possess knowledge and we find       
wisdom1 when we have transmuted that    
knowledge into its interior meaning4    

,the fundamental difference between     
mysticism and theology is a difference  
founded upon this axiom4 ,the true      
mystic penetrates to the interior nature
 of manifestation and gets the message  
of ,experience4 ,mysticism excludes     
nothing4 ,it includes the manifest with 
the interior2 it penetrates the outer   
and seeks the interior2 but never does  
the true mystic confound the spirit with
 the letter2 never does he mistake the  
external for the ,reality2 the symbol   
for the message4  ,suppose that what is 
generally called the practical side of  
life were the only reality4 ,what would 
be the inevitable conclusion of the     
thinker if he were to consider only the 
outer1 the manifest1 the visible results
 of a given achievement8 ,he would      
conclude that civilization is insane4   
,if we did not know with an intuitional 
grasp of truth that all this which we   
call marvels of achievement is          
symbolical of what ,man is in his       
interior nature1 it would be the veriest

 folly4 ,what1 for example1 is there in 
a modern sky-scraper indicative of man's
 advanced civilization8  ,with millions 
of acres of unused land1 it would be    
inconceivable folly to project into the 
inoffensive atmosphere twenty-eight     
stories of wood and iron merely to buy  
and sell the products of man's brain and
 hands4 ,but while our ,twentieth       
,century feverish activities are        
ostensibly engaged in the external      
world1 they are symbolizing1 embodying1 
teaching if we will but learn1 the fact 
of the evolution of man's interior      
nature4 ,sky-scrapers are indicative of 
the heights to which we are aspiring2 to
 which we are climbing2 air-ships only  
tell us that man in his interior        
nature--in his reality--is not a        
creeping1 crawling ,thing1 chained to   
the earth4 ,he may1 if he will1 soar    
into ethereal realms4 ,he has wings1 and
 if he so desires1 he may use them4     
,wireless telegraphy would be a much    
less consequential discovery1 did it not

 foreshadow the coming time when mind   
will speak to mind regardless of desert 
wastes and imponderable mountains that  
seemingly intervene4 ,wireless messages 
are the result of vibrations set in     
motion by means of a dynamo and received
 by an instrument attuned to a          
corresponding rate of motion4 ,but no   
dynamo ever invented has the power that 
is centered in the dynamic will of a    
human being4 ,brute strength is         
paralyzed into inactivity by the        
comparatively puny strength of a man4   
,the fierceness of the lion1 the        
tremendous force of the elephant1 give  
way before the potent power of ,man's   
desire--an interior quality4  ,do       
skyscrapers1 or air ships1 or wireless  
telegraph systems make us happier8 ,if  
they do1 is it not because of their     
ethical rather than their so-called     
practical value8 ,is it not because they
 prove to man his power to use the      
plastic material of the planet and      
control it to do his bidding8 ,rapid    

transit adds to convenience2 but above  
and beyond all the so-called practical  
valuation which can be put upon modern  
inventions and accomplishment is the    
message which these mechanical marvels  
present to the mind4 ,the message that  
man is not a machine2 that he is not a  
creature but a creator2 that he is not a
 miserable worm of the dust1 but a      
winged god4  ,greater than all the other
 benefits bestowed by modern mechanical 
marvels is the knowledge of each other  
which has resulted from                 
intercommunication between nation and   
nation4 ,the great breeder of discord   
and the waste of hatred is the idea of  
segregation4 ,the man of the cave and   
the club feared his next door neighbor1 
because he did not know him1 and the    
animal-man fears that which he does not 
know2 his imagination pictures the      
unknown one as something monstrous and  
dangerous4 ,intimacy will teach us that 
people of a distant country are like    
ourselves1 even though they may dress   

differently2 even though they may wear  
their hair an inch longer or shorter2   
may eat a diet of nuts instead of meat2 
may pray standing up rather than        
kneeling down4 ,upon such trifling and  
absurd differences as these are based   
our ideas of alien races and foreign    
nations4  ,annihilation of space and    
time accomplished by modern mechanical  
inventions has made us familiar with the
 interior life of other human beings and
 has compelled us to the knowledge that 
they have feelings1 emotions1 desires1  
hopes1 aspirations1 and faults1 exactly 
like our own1 and thus will be          
established a bond of unity1 which will 
reach the heart of our neighbor4 ,if    
this bond of unity has not as yet been  
established1 it is because the majority 
of ,mankind are still only              
sense-conscious4 ,they have not yet     
assimilated the knowledge which the past
 few years has precipitated in such an  
avalanche that the slow-moving mind     
cannot keep pace with it4 ,but out of   

all this knowledge must come in due time
 the quality of wisdom4 ,wisdom seeks   
love as the only eternal reality4 ,not  
because ,god has commanded that we shall
 do so2 not because of a sentimental    
ideal1 but because any other course is  
futile1 foolish1 silly and does not get 
us anywhere as the slangologists rightly
 express it4  ,thus everything in the   
busy commercial world1 seemingly bent   
upon perpetuating external forms and    
systems1 is in reality a symbolic       
language of which unity and within are  
the pivotal centers4 ,these two words   
are really complementary1 because it is 
only with the interior nature that unity
 can be established4  ,we may conjoin2  
combine2 contact2 cohere4 ,we may form  
partnerships1 corporations1 combinations
 from the outside4 ,these are external  
expressions of the interior desire for  
unity1 but union is of the interior     
nature only4  ,with the more intimate   
knowledge of each other which           
intercommunication between nations makes

 general1 each little segregated mass of
 human beings must sooner or later      
arrive at the conclusion that we are    
very much alike and that to get together
 on any proposition involving the       
welfare of all humanity is a much less  
costly and a far more satisfactory way  
of settling matters than by going to war
 over it4 ,not that this idea is yet    
fixed in the brains of the majority1 but
 there is creeping into man's cranium a 
faint thought that perhaps the survival 
of the fittest will be best maintained  
by peaceful methods2 an idea that honor 
can neither be maintained nor appeased  
by shedding blood4 ,this knowledge will 
bring us to the wise observation that   
fundamentally1 cosmically there is no   
place for enmity between nations and    
races and classes and the sexes2 that   
the whole conglomerated mass of hatreds 
and inherited enmities and segregated   
interests2 the absurd idea that one part
 of the world can permanently prosper by
 the enslavement of any part2 the       

undeveloped and savage ideas that       
underlie our civilization2 all these    
thought-concepts have no more reality in
 the cosmic scheme of things1 than have 
the picture-blocks of the child in the  
adult life4  ,the world has been living 
through a nightmare4 ,the warfare which 
belongs to the animal plane of ,man's   
evolving consciousness has been carried 
into the mental world as well4 ,not only
 do men fight like tigers in the        
jungles1 but they fight with tongue and 
pen as well1 using food products1       
textile fabrics1 inventions1 mechanical 
devices and the creations of brains of  
men1 for their weapons4 ,but this type  
of warfare will not much longer survive4
 ,mankind must choose between           
transmutation or annihilation4 ,hatred  
is self-destructive4 ,blind indeed must 
be those who can expect to escape this  
law4 ,they who use the sword shall      
perish by the sword4 ,how else can it   
be8 ,there is but one force4 ,if we use 
it to construct1 we are constructed4 ,if

 we use it to destroy we are destroyed1 
since it is by the very nature of law   
that we become involved in that which we
 employ4 ,it is a simple sum in         
arithmetic4 ,we may either add or       
subtract4 ,if we add1 there is no limit4
 ,if we subtract we ultimately wipe off 
the slate4  ,the fact is dawning upon an
 increasing number of thinkers1 that    
even as brain is superseding brawn in   
the marts of the world1 so there is     
still a finer and higher and better     
force1 so potential in its power that   
nothing can withstand its melting1      
merging1 unifying motive4 ,that power is
 love1 without which though we have all 
else we are but as sounding brass and a 
tinkling cymbal4  ,even as the ferocious
 man-eating animals have disappeared    
from the earth2 even as the giant       
gladiators1 the mailed knights1 the     
erotic pomp and regalia of ,imperialism1
 with their captives chained to their   
chariot-wheels2 the cruel despots1 the  
tyrannical masters and scourged slaves2 

the bloody sacrifices1 the horrible     
games of the amphitheatres1 even as     
these one-time evidences of alleged     
civilization have passed away1 so too   
will time see the dissolution of our own
 false gods4 ,transmuted into pure and  
perfect love and peace and equality1 the
 power now misapplied in the work of    
hate and destruction1 will increase a   
thousand fold and be directed toward the
 maintenance of a balanced world--a     
world in which ,love and ,wisdom are    
united4  ,we are always fearful of      
changes4 ,the bat-like eyes of the      
multitude are blinded by the light of   
the sun4 ,why cannot we trust the       
,cosmic ,law which has always given us a
 better ideal in the place of the       
decadent one8 ,if we prefer to use the  
word ,god1 then let us say why cannot we
 trust ,god8  ,in the external world1   
then1 the idea that a part of this      
sphere is inherently antagonistic to    
another2 that men are born enemies2 that
 the female and the male must forever   

struggle for supremacy--all these ideas 
are disappearing4 ,unity is the password
 to the coming civilization4 ,if then we
 will accept this conclusion and apply  
it to our individual selves1 we will    
conclude that no function of the human  
organism should merit disapproval2 or be
 regarded as an enemy4 ,before we can   
arrive at a balanced and sane world     
without1 we must come to a balanced and 
sane state within our own organism4  ,we
 must know that the sex function1 the   
most vital of all the various           
expressions of life in the individual   
body as well as in the social body and  
the racial body1 is not an enemy with   
whom we must maintain unceasing warfare1
 but a wise and trustworthy friend with 
whom we may safely co-operate1 neither  
repressing this vital force until we    
have conquered it and dragged it like a 
bleeding captive behind our             
chariot-wheels1 nor should we like the  
drug-slave become lost in the clutches  
of an abnormal appetite4  ,indeed1 as   

the forces of life become transmuted    
from the physical appetites to the      
finer1 and interior desires of the soul1
 abnormalities and perversions of       
sex-force will be impossible4           
,sex-force is1 at the ,center of ,being1
 unpolluted4 ,it is pure1 perfect and   
harmonious4 ,it is divine4 ,why8        
,because it is bi-une2 it is balanced4  
,in our present-day lopsided            
civilization1 we find that nearly every 
one is lop-sided1 and unbalanced4       
,alienists declare that almost every man
 and woman has some hobby or mania4     
,doubtless this is true4 ,an age of     
specialization would incline the race   
toward lopsidedness4 ,but the source of 
,life is balanced2 if we come to the    
place where we consciously unite with   
that interior source we will no longer  
be unbalanced1 because the central      
source of life is ,sex1 and ,sex is1 at 
the center of the radius1 bi-une1 which 
is to say balanced4 ,there is no chance 
for sex supremacy1 for domination1 or   

dispute1 or jealousy4 ,there is         
equilibrium4  ,it is probable that to   
those who cannot compass the            
consciousness that equality does not    
mean identicalness this sort of balanced
 life will appear tame and tasteless4   
,few women perhaps and certainly fewer  
men can imagine a sex-union in which    
love is so great1 so over-powering and  
at the same time so perfect1 that there 
is no room for jealousy4 ,the average   
person believes that jealousy is        
inseparable from sex-love4 ,but even as 
our antediluvian ancestors could not    
imagine the mechanical miracles of the  
telephone and the telegraph1 so we fail 
to comprehend the infinite depth and    
intensity of our interior being until we
 come to the place where we awake from  
the sleep of the mortal and glimpse the 
heights of the immortal life4  ,no one  
can give to another this interior       
wisdom--this philosopher's stone1 by    
means of which all baser instincts are  
transmuted into the pure golden-tinted  

light of illumination4 ,he can but point
 the way and promise that the results   
are mathematically proportionate to     
effort1 and effort will be backed by    
individual desire4  ,we do not hold1 as 
do many writers dealing with the        
physiological side of the subject of    
,sex1 that the sex function is primarily
 designed for purposes of procreation   
and that any other expression of sex is 
contrary to nature4 ,the essential      
function of sex is to vitalize4         
,procreation is one of the uses of      
sex-love1 but it is not its primary     
function4  ,until men and women have    
absolute control over their sex impulses
 they are still on the plane of         
sense-consciousness2 and as long as they
 remain only sense-conscious they miss  
the very thing that they seek4 ,all that
 is pleasureable in sex-contact that    
reaches any man or woman who is only    
sense-conscious is no more than a faint 
echo of the ecstacy of divine and       
perfect love which is known to the      

spiritual alchemist1 who has discovered 
the art of transmutation and thus found 
the key to the gate of eternal life4    
,as long as we remain limited to the    
plane of sense-consciousness1 old age is
 a blessing4 ,it compels transmutation  
of the love-nature into interior        
channels4 ,by the failure of the        
physical organism to express the        
sex-desires1 this force is given an     
opportunity to become transmuted into   
higher1 finer and more intense and      
beautiful thoughts4 ,it takes on        
whatever quality of soul we have        
acquired and it fosters that quality--be
 it much or little--so that we may not  
go into the interior realms a spiritual 
pauper4  ,even as our physical childhood
 is a prelude to mental adultship1 so   
old age1 our second childhood1 is a     
prelude to our soul adultship1 and the  
character of our old age period is      
prophetic of our state in the soul life4
  ,there are some extremely aged persons
 whom we cannot1 if we have any degree  

of interior vision1 classify as old2 the
 youth and beauty and love-radiance of  
their interior nature is so potent that 
it shines through the worn and wrinkled 
garment that covers it2 and we know that
 when that garment shall have been      
removed by the hands of ,death1 that the
 soul will be clothed in radiant youth  
and beauty1 and light4  ,this is indeed 
the esoteric cause of the widespread    
repudiation of a mental recognition of  
age4  ,i am seventy years young says the
 man who hopes for eternal youth and    
life2 and if he says it from the        
standpoint of wisdom--the wisdom that   
knows himself an immortal soul fired by 
pure and holy spiritual love1 then      
indeed his words are truly symbolical4  
,but if he utters them merely in        
desperate defiance of organic decay1    
they are empty and he will enter the    
after-life1 even as he leaves this one1 
without having attained that which he   
craves4  ,this truth is an integral part
 of the cosmos1 from which there is no  

appeal2 no reprieve2 no immunity1 no    
respecter of persons4 ,the law is       
absolute and it is also just4 ,pure and 
perfect love is the price of immortal   
life4 ,there is no other coin of the    
realm4  ,but1 questions the initiate1   
why cannot those who know1 if there be  
such in the world today1 give us this   
mystical formula8 ,why do they not tell 
us how we may reach this desirable state
 of spiritual sex-love1 which affords   
such divine happiness to those who find 
it8 ,the query is pertinent and the     
desire is natural2 the doubt of its     
reality is consistent1 yet we are       
constrained to say that in the very     
nature of such inquiry the disciple of  
the ,hidden ,wisdom voices his          
unreadiness for ,illumination4 ,the     
desire for self-gratification1 though   
right and natural to the sense-conscious
 plane1 is yet inimical to attainment of
 spiritual consciousness4  ,there is a  
spiritual message in the persistently   
inculcated doctrine of sacrifice4 ,it is

 not that a ,supreme ,being desires     
sacrifice1 or gifts1 or adulation1 or   
homage1 or worship1 or that any power   
glories in our unhappiness4 ,it is not  
that we may purchase any spiritual thing
 by giving up something which we prize1 
but it is because our spirit becomes    
attuned to the central source of ,life  
by means of our willingness to perform  
what to the sense-conscious plane of    
existence seems a sacrifice4  ,he sought
 for others the good he desired for     
himself2 let him pass on is the         
,egyptian phrasing of the ,golden ,rule1
 and this states it as clearly as it can
 be stated4  ,yet should any one take   
this truism as an unfailing formula and 
expect to enter the golden gate of      
eternal life because of obedience to the
 letter of the pass-word1 he would fail4
 ,altruism is2 it is not mere           
recognition of a word4  ,we may         
presuppose another natural and          
instinctive query3 ,if then only by     
union with one's true mate one can enter

 the bliss of eternal life and love1    
should not we drop every other          
responsibility1 sever all ties of       
relationship1 give up wife or husband or
 family or work1 and search for the one 
perfect complementary1 finding which1 is
 found the answer to all life's         
problems8  ,again we can only say that  
the seeker would be disappointed4 ,we   
should remember the story of ,sir       
,launfall4 ,returning from the          
unfruitful quest of long years for the  
,holy ,grail 7the golden chalice71 he   
learned the lesson of ,truth from the   
beggar at his own door to whom he gave  
the cup of cold water without any       
consciousness of doing a good deed2     
without hope of thereby finding the     
grail4  ,he who seeks with the selfish  
thought of securing for self any good   
will not find it though he should give  
away every farthing to the poor2 though 
he should never permit one unkind word  
to pass his lips2 though he should fast 
and scourge and deny the flesh2 kneel   

all day and all night in prayer4 ,as    
long as he holds to the thought of self 
and of obtaining something so long will 
he miss the attainment4  ,spiritual     
insight establishes two facts beyond    
cavil or dispute or reversion4 ,one is  
that ,god's laws cannot be broken4 ,we  
are not trying to say that they should  
not be broken2 or that they cannot be   
broken with impunity2 or that if broken 
we shall be punished4 ,they simply      
cannot be broken--they are unbreakable4 
,we cannot buy or sell or beg or steal  
or borrow or take as a gift1 or in any  
wise acquire immortal godhood1 except by
 attaining it any more than we can come 
to physical manhood or womanhood except 
by growing to it2 and by the same law no
 one can keep it from us2 neither priest
 nor scribe2 neither prophet nor        
inventor4 ,we are a law unto ourselves4 
,no one can break the law of your being 
any more than you can break that of     
another4 ,no power on earth or in the   
celestial spheres or in the intervening 

spaces can keep that which is our own   
from us4 ,wherefore then1 should we tear
 ourselves and each other with strife   
and jealousy and wounded honor and      
outraged marriage vows1 when either     
partner to a marriage contract sees fit 
to sever that relationship8  ,if you    
lose out in what you believed to be     
love1 be sure that the object of your   
desires was not yours to lose2 in all   
the spheres there is only one who is    
yours by divine right and no one can by 
any possibility usurp your place in the 
final issue2 and that place once found  
no one can oust you from it4 ,but       
remember what we have said in previous  
chapters of the word found2 it is from  
within4  ,how vain and how foolish it is
 to think that a power so stupendous1 so
 magnificent and so beneficent as to    
project this immense panorama of life2  
to establish such marvelous diversity   
within such simple unity2 to bestow the 
bliss of love1 could make a mistake4    
,how puerile has been the teaching that 

we can sin against the ,eternal ,god4   
,we need not worry about the ,supreme   
and ,eternal ,power4 ,the dice of ,god  
are loaded4 ,our concern is with        
ourselves1 lest we imagine that we may  
cheat in the game of life4  ,we are     
self-centered1 free-willed2 immune from 
any possibility of offending the        
universe4 ,the whole problem of life and
 death1 in so far as it relates to our  
individual selves1 is up to us4 ,we can 
delay arrival at the goal of our        
desires2 we can dally by the wayside if 
we will4 ,only our own loss1 our own    
suffering1 our own unsatisfied longing  
shall punish us4 ,but who is so stupid  
that he would remain wandering in the   
bleak and barren desert1 when he might  
by a turn of his hand enter fields      
,elysian and merge his soul into the    
boundless areas of infinite bliss and   
wisdom8  ,we should not imagine that    
death will do this for us4 ,death is    
nothing more phenomenal than withdrawing
 from one room to another4 ,the soul may

 strive on for ages through many        
incarnations4 ,only one thing can free  
it2 and that is love2 love for others   
than the personal self4 ,the broader and
 deeper the love nature1 the wider it   
reaches out to enfold in its tender     
protection all living things1 the more  
nearly divine we become1 and the sooner 
will we touch the area of the spiritual 
and attract our own4  ,it is evident    
that self-seeking even for so worthy a  
possession as one's own counterpart     
defeats the very effort4 ,we are not to 
seek2 we are only to prepare ourselves  
to be ready and worthy2 when we shall   
have done this1 nothing can withhold our
 own from us2 not though the two halves 
of the ,one ,being are separated by all 
the barriers which the sense-conscious  
race of men have erected between        
themselves and the bliss of ,heaven4    
,says ,emerson3 ,what is thine1 will    
gravitate to thee4 ,we need not         
therefore go about apprehensively       
fearful lest we lose that which belongs 

to us2 in so doing we are apt to keep   
our eyes glued to the earth1 thus       
forgetting that it is from the higher   
realms of vibration whence cometh our   
light4  ,says ,emerson3 ,o1 believe as  
thou livest1 that every sound that is   
spoken over the round world which thou  
oughtest to hear will vibrate on thine  
ear4 ,every proverb1 every book1 every  
by-word that belongs to thee for aid or 
comfort1 shall surely come home through 
open or winding passages4 ,every friend 
whom not thy fantastic will1 but the    
great and tender heart in thee craveth1 
shall lock thee in his embrace4 ,and    
this because the great and tender heart 
in thee is the heart of all2 not a      
valve1 not a wall1 not an intersection  
is there anywhere in nature1 but one    
blood rolls uninterruptedly1 an endless 
circulation through all men as the water
 of the globe is all one sea1 and truly 
seen its tide is one4  ,here then are   
specific and trustworthy statements for 
the further enlightenment of the student

 of the problems of ,sex4 ,like         
algebraical propositions they prove     
themselves when correctly solved4       
,immortal godhood is attained by        
counterpartal union1 because the        
,central ,source of ,life is bi-une4    
,immortality is our spiritual           
birthright1 but we must claim it if we  
would consciously realize this truth4   
,god is the bi-une creative principle1  
and we are literally and in truth the   
image and likeness of this bi-une       
,being4 ,not one hermaphroditic         
personality but a pair4 ,a pair is one  
whole1 even though each of the pair is  
distinct in form and diverse in         
temperament and qualities4 ,we are      
especially emphatic upon this point     
because there has been so much vague and
 speculative theorizing upon this       
definition of a bi-une ,being4 ,your    
perfect mate is distinctively masculine 
or distinctively feminine in sex as the 
case may be2 and he or she is your mate 
because of this perfection of           

distinctiveness4  ,our former ideas of  
femininity and of masculinity were      
faulty4 ,woman is not less but much more
 womanly1 if she has exchanged fear for 
courage2 deceit for truthfulness2       
ill-health for vitality2 helplessness   
for helpfulness4 ,even as a man is more 
manly when he spares the nesting birds  
where formerly he ruthlessly destroyed2 
when he unites protection with bravery2 
when he knows sympathy from weakness2   
when he combines sentiment with         
principle2 and gentleness with vigor4   
,no mortal can by any possibility break 
the laws of ,god4 ,therefore you are not
 to try to enforce your ideas of        
morality upon others4 ,who has          
constituted you book-keeper for the     
universe8 ,you are to concern yourself  
with establishing happiness upon this   
earth4  ,you are to see to it that your 
love is big and broad enough2           
all-inclusive enough to wish to see     
every one happy from your immediate     
family to your far-off neighbor in      

,central ,africa4 ,you need not worry   
about whether they break the moral code 
as you see it4 ,you are to render love  
and service to this world with all your 
heart and all your power2 if you do     
this1 you will reach the goal of your   
desires4  ,no mortal can by any other   
method than love and the service that is
 rendered through love seek and find the
 ,holy ,grail1 which is to say the bliss
 of spiritual union with his ,beloved4  
,therefore to fly from the              
responsibilities and the environment in 
which you are1 without regard to the    
welfare of others1 is to defeat your own
 quest2 neither do we claim that you    
should under all circumstances remain   
chained to a post like an unwilling     
captive1 poisoning your mind with       
resentment and hatred4  ,there is no one
 formula which fits all cases--other    
than that given in love and service4    
,the ,golden ,rule which tells us to do 
unto others as we would have them do    
unto us1 has another side to its shield1

 and it may read ,do not permit others  
to do unto you what you would not do to 
them4 ,if you seek freedom from a       
specific environment from no other      
motive than personal selfishness1 you   
may be doing yourself an injury2 but if 
you are also doing an injury to others  
by remaining1 then you are doubly       
mistaken in your course4  ,the way of   
attainment is not easy1 although the    
formula is simple2 it may be briefly but
 concisely summed up in the vital and   
important word unselfishness4 ,not mine 
but thine also1 is the watchword of the 
wise in love4 ,not possession of the    
,beloved ,one1 but union with him or    
her4 ,there is just one big world of    
difference between these two points of  
view4 ,more than that1 there is the     
difference of ,heaven and ,hell4        
,,chapter ,,xii                         
,,selling ,,the ,,thrones ,,of ,,angels 
,great as may seem to the               
sense-conscious person the pleasure and 
satisfaction of owning some one1 or some

 thing2 of possessing and feeling a     
proprietorship in the one desired2      
greater by a million-fold is the        
pleasure of union which is possible only
 to those who are themselves free1 and  
who in consequence desire freedom for   
all others4 ,this is a truth which the  
unwise cannot comprehend or concur in1  
and which they will not believe or      
trust4  ,emerson says3 ,every personal  
consideration that we allow costs us    
heavenly state4 ,we sell the thrones of 
angels for a short and turbulent        
pleasure4  ,and finally1 as regards the 
sex-function1 we would like to impress  
upon every one1 though only those who   
are fit for the kingdom will understand 
the truth1 namely that the highest      
manifestation of sex-love is not        
localized in the organs of procreation4 
,the love that is of the soul fills the 
breast first of all1 and is only felt in
 the region popularly1 but erroneously1 
supposed to circumscribe the            
sex-function1 as a secondary and by no  

means compulsory consideration4  ,when  
the sex force has become diffused       
throughout the entire being1 radiating  
from the solar man1 and permeating the  
mind and thus entering into the mortal  
body which is only a covering of the    
mind physical copulation becomes a      
well-trained servant of the will1 and is
 found to be a natural1 but yet         
secondary complement4 ,sex is not       
confined to the specialized sex-organs4 
,it permeates the entire being4 ,the    
person who has no conception of his     
reality other than as a physical entity 
has not so much as touched the area of  
spiritual ecstacy which has been alluded
 to as the nectar of the gods2 and so   
infinitely fine and perfect is the plan 
of ,creation that he can not do so until
 he is fit2 and never can he be fit as  
long as he remains upon the             
sense-conscious plane and seeks by      
sexual perversity and debauchery and    
sexual insanities to touch that         
exquisite perfection of joy which he    

intuitively knows evades him4  ,thus the
 sensual man is caught is a beneficent  
trap2 a wise and just and merciful      
,power has so placed the ,holy of       
,holies1 that it cannot be defiled2 it  
cannot be reached2 it cannot be         
desecrated4 ,it is forever removed from 
the touch of the unworthy4 ,no man can  
hope to express the creative power1 the 
sexual realization of a god1 through the
 functions which are not higher in      
consciousness than those of the animal4 
,would you attain to the status of the  
divine man8 ,if so1 do not imagine for a
 moment that the divine man is less     
vital than your puny physical powers    
would suggest4 ,neither should you      
imagine that the sex-function1 even in  
its lowest state 7lowest because most   
lacking in love-consciousness71 is      
anything but pure and clean and right   
and normal in itself2 the attitude of   
the average man and woman invests it    
with all its uncleanness4  ,but with all
 the vile thought which the undeveloped 

mind has indulged in respecting the     
sex-relation2 with all the man-made laws
 arrayed against it as though it were   
criminal1 and the teachings of the      
,church denying its spiritual origin and
 perpetuation2 with women selling it in 
the public markets for their physical   
maintenance1 nothing less than the fact 
of the eternality and universality of   
,sex1 as the divine fulcrum of          
manifestation1 can account for the fact 
that the poor little bi-une ,love-god is
 after all coming to be recognized as   
the hope and savior of ,mankind4  ,if   
you would have eternal youth and eternal
 life and love and wisdom1 accept this  
truth1 because nothing else can1 or     
will1 save you from the slings and      
arrows of outrageous fortune4  ,another 
vague query presents itself to the      
would-be initiate1 and we would like to 
leave this chapter with no              
misunderstandings2 no misconceptions2 no
 misleading statements1 because that    
which we are here stating is not theory4

 ,it is the one eternal1 undying1 simple
 and unescapable truth which has        
withstood the onslaughts of time and    
ignorance4  ,the query comes and        
although it has been answered in        
previous chapters we will again state   
it1 so that there may be no mistake3 ,if
 the balance is found in counterpartal  
sex-union--the one man and the one woman
 uniting on the solar plane--would not  
this balance be maintained if only one  
of the two reached the higher planes of 
consciousness2 in other words1 would not
 the balance be struck by extreme purity
 on the one hand and extreme impurity on
 the other8  ,again we are reminded that
 the law of the cosmos is wise2 that    
there are no mistakes nor flaws in the  
cosmic scheme4 ,the answer is that the  
union is one of complementaries1 and not
 of antitheses4 ,each one must be       
balanced1 the nature rounded1 the soul  
awake before union is possible4 ,thus we
 are saved from ourselves4 ,we cannot1  
if we would1 really gain at the expense 

of another1 although in temporary things
 we may appear to do so1 because the    
rich grow richer at the expense of the  
poor2 the tyrant ruler maintains his    
power at the expense of serfs2 but doubt
 not that eternal equation is perfect4  
,there is still another query3 ,if true 
sex-union is of the soul1 what is to    
prevent soul-mates from finding each    
other at the moment of death1 regardless
 of their fitness for godhood1 and thus 
circumventing1 as it were1 the plan of  
,creation1 which would compel each one  
to earn the prize of eternal life8  ,the
 same law governs the interior planes as
 the exterior4 ,the realization of      
consciousness is not a capricious matter
 any more than is the law of physical   
growth4 ,a man might be in the presence 
of untold wealth1 but if he had not the 
consciousness to know and realize       
values1 he would remain poor1 even      
though by a wave of his hand he might   
command millions4 ,one might give a     
blind man a check for a million dollars1

 and if he had no others means of       
knowing what it was1 he might easily    
imagine it to be worthless4 ,death does 
not bestow wisdom4 ,wisdom is acquired4 
,love is a self-generator4  ,if you     
would follow the law of transmutation   
and acquire the throne of angelhood1 get
 busy within the laboratory of your own 
mind4 ,take the crucible of ,thought and
 begin to work interiorly upon the      
common1 everyday things that present    
themselves in your environment4 ,this is
 the only way of transmutation4 ,love   
grows by feeding upon itself1 and the   
sacrifices and the kindnesses that are  
bestowed in love without thought of     
personal benefit grow into the flood of 
golden light and love of the spiritual  
realms4  ,the chief virtue in any one's 
pursuit of philosophy1 or of esoteric   
wisdom1 and in methods of attainment1 is
 found in the fact that such effort is  
proof of earnest desire to attain4      
,emerson says that the principal benefit
 of a college education is to teach the 

student that he does not need a college 
education4 ,this estimate of the value  
of years of study seems at first glance 
a sarcastic one1 but it is not4 ,if this
 wisdom can be acquired in no other way1
 then even so it were well worth the    
price4 ,if the student can learn that   
much love is the price of transmutation 
only after exhausting every other       
method1 what does it matter1 so that he 
finally learns it8  ,learn to look into 
the hearts of men4  ,at first sight1    
everything on the busy city street is a 
part of a moving panorama2 but an       
intimate view1 when you get in touch    
with segregated parts of the panorama1  
discloses the interior nature2 the hopes
 and the fears2 the aspirations and the 
longings and the heartaches and the joys
 of the entities composing the whole    
moving picture4  ,you notice a little   
female figure2 her cheeks are pinked to 
a hue rivalling the ,american beauty    
rose2 her lips are carmined like a      
clowns and her eyebrows penciled too    

obviously4 ,her cheap little dress is   
amateurishly cut in imitation of the    
latest4 ,your first impulse1 perhaps1 is
 to scorn her as a brazen creature of   
the streets2 but if you will suspend    
judgment and look a little closer1 you  
may see that her eyes are1 in their     
depths1 those of a child1 for all her   
seeming experience4 ,her brazenness is  
perhaps only the armor which she has    
donned to hide a turbulent heart--the   
dowry of centuries of grandmothers who  
longed for one glimpse of freedom2 of   
the right to comb their hair as they    
liked2 to powder their faces if they    
wanted to2 to run and jump and laugh and
 dance and be innocently free and happy 
without the fear of shocking that       
bugbear ,respectability1 and the tyrant 
,decorum1 which insisted that a woman's 
legs must be carefully concealed on     
penalty of being adjudged immodest4     
,those poor reviled1 execrated and      
vigilantly-concealed legs of our        
fore-mothers6 ,they are crying aloud for

 vindication1 and they will be heard    
wherever the line of least resistance   
affords a channel for their freedom4    
,and so1 instead of blaming the poor    
little painted doll of a woman1 look    
into her heart4 ,you will discover that 
she is bent on having two things long   
denied womankind--freedom and happiness4
 ,if she is foredoomed to failure on the
 route she has chosen1 that is all the  
more reason why you should withhold     
censure and give freely of your help and
 sympathy4  ,learn to look into the     
hearts of men4  ,learn to see beneath   
the appearance4 ,the old ,italian       
organ-grinder doing his best to please  
you with his wheezy hurdy-gurdy is not  
just an old organ-grinder4 ,he is also a
 man with emotions and feelings and     
longings and hopes identical in         
substance with your own2 no matter if   
the organ is out of tune4 ,learn to hear
 the spirit of the aria or the          
intermezzo4  ,and behold6 ,there is a   
bunch of noisy1 dirty1 slangy and bold  

street-arabs--at least that is what they
 look like from the outside4 ,but learn 
to look within4 ,there you will find the
 cause of their appearance1 and when you
 have found the cause you will          
sympathize with them4 ,if you can get   
back to the underlying cause of the     
manifestations of life1 you will never  
fail to sympathize with the condition   
you may find1 even though you find the  
cause rooted in crime4  ,you do not have
 to agree with the criminal in order to 
sympathize with his misery4 ,if you have
 the inner vision1 which you must have  
if you would transmute the baser metals 
into pure gold and find the key to      
immortal life and love1 you will never  
fail to understand and to sympathize    
with every point of view4 ,whoever walks
 a furlong without sympathy walks to his
 own funeral4  ,don't imagine for one   
moment that you have to go to the       
,himalayas to find the inner vision2 or 
that you will obtain the key to the     
,hidden ,mysteries by shutting yourself 

in a monastery4 ,wherever you are1 you  
must lose sight of yourself4 ,not the   
higher ,self of ,reality1 but the lesser
 self of the carnal1 or sense-conscious 
plane--the personality that conceals    
you4 ,and above all1 you are not to     
regard this personality as an enemy to  
be scourged and beaten and reviled4 ,it 
is1 or it should be1 a willing1 and     
helpful servant of your soul even as we 
say the hand is the servant of the      
brain4 ,if your hand becomes unruly and 
does not obey your brain1 train it to do
 so1 don't cut it off1 even though the  
,bible does appear to tell you to--why  
should the men who wrote in that far-off
 time know more of ,truth than we of a  
later century8  ,you may imagine that   
you need to belong to some ,brotherhood1
 in order to learn the secrets of       
alchemical transmutation4 ,there is     
nothing of the ,great ,wisdom which can 
be taught you1 which you cannot learn of
 yourself if you will look within and   
unite with the heart of the world4      

,there is no wisdom higher than love2   
and there is no power greater than love2
 and there is no heaven happier than    
love and there is no ,god holier than   
love4 ,if you will take this for your   
creed you will readily see that it is   
for you to think love into those things 
that appear to lack it2 think purity    
into those things that appear impure2   
think unity into those things that      
appear separated2 and taking the lesson 
home to your own intimate conduct of    
life1 invest the expression of your sex 
with the pure and lofty and holy power  
,god gave to it1 or refrain from the    
thought of sex until you can learn to do
 so4  ,says a modern writer3 ,if you are
 still so out of tune with the ,infinite
 as to harbor any thought of evil or    
shame in connection with the specialized
 organs and functions of sex1 let this  
illumination from on high cast that     
devil out of your cosmos forever4 ,and  
if you turn away with soul offended from
 even 'the slimy gendering of the toad1'

 you dishonor ,god who once knew no     
higher creative formula and still       
blesses it with ,his fruitful presence4 
,and finally do not make the too common 
mistake of confounding brazenness with  
freedom from shame and                  
self-condemnation4  ,whatever of beauty 
and purity and joy has come to you in   
this life has come because of the       
divinity of ,sex4 ,if you have been wise
 enough to know this1 and have          
reverenced it and purified your mind in 
respect to that function of your being1 
you will not cheapen it by parading the 
subject before those who have no        
idealism1 any more than you would cast  
pearls before swine2 you will not       
countenance jokes and ribald songs2 you 
will not indulge in promiscuousness2 but
 instead you will fold it within the    
sacred intimacy of your heart's divine  
altar1 as something too beautiful1 too  
holy for the garish light of the        
un-tender day4  ,if you have taken into 
your consciousness the divinity of ,sex1

 you will desire unity and disdain      
possession1 knowing that whatever of    
,heaven is vouchsafed ,mankind here is  
but a shadow of the reality of spiritual
 realization of the function of ,sex4   
,you will respect the physical body as  
the handiwork of the ,creative          
,principle of the universe1 respecting  
the sacredness of human life and        
liberty4 ,you will teach the truth that 
the law of ,life is mathematically just2
 that nothing will unlock the gates of  
,eternal ,life and ,love1 except inward 
honesty2 fidelity2 unselfishness2       
spiritual desire4  ,if we possess these 
qualities1 we are fit for the kingdom of
 ,love and we shall surely enter        
therein4  ,verily ,love transforms mere 
men into immortal gods4                 
,,finis                                 
,,the ,,swastika ,,series               
,,have ,,you ,,read                     
,,how ,,thought ,,can ,,kill            
,the ,scientific ,use of ,mental        
,electricity4                           

,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall    ,the           
,enlargement of ,consciousness4   ,the  
,doctrine of ,free-,will4   ,thought ,is
 the ,building ,material4   ,the        
,creative ,power of ,conscious ,thought4
   ,experiments ,proving ,that ,thought 
,can ,kill4   ,confessions of a ,trained
 ,nurse4   ,people ,who ,think ,god     
,hangs ,out the ,sun4   ,action         
,essential to ,creative ,principle4     
,the ,science of ,god's ,anger4         
,thought ,is of the ,universal ,supply4 
,why the ,number ,thirteen ,is ,unlucky4
   ,how ,poison ,may ,be ,generated in  
the ,system4   ,thought and the         
,cell-,structure of the ,brain4   ,why  
,we ,fail in ,our ,efforts4   ,the      
,spectrums of ,love and ,hate4   ,the   
,power of ,imagination4   ,fear ,is the 
,king of ,thoughts ,that ,kill4         
,parents ,make ,cringing ,weaklings of  
,children4   ,how ,whole ,cities ,may   
,be ,poisoned by ,thought4   ,case of a 
,well-,known ,man ,killed by ,thought4  

,there ,is ,neither ,reward nor         
,punishment4   ,the ,survival of ,that  
,which ,is ,creative4                   
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,,personal ,,magnetism                  
,the ,power of ,persuasion              
,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall                   
,,contents    ,the ,philosophy of ,the  
,survival of the ,fittest4   ,the ,power
 of ,persuasion4   ,effects of ,force   
,law4   ,magnetism in ,professional     
,life4   ,opinion of a ,noted ,actor4   
,what ,is ,personal ,magnetism8         
,different ,kinds of ,magnetism4   ,the 
,human ,body an ,electrical ,machine4   
,will ,power the ,dynamo4   ,magnetism  
,not ,necessarily ,good4   ,the ,law    
,governing ,invisible ,force4   ,love   

the ,generator of ,soul ,magnetism4     
,necessity for ,understanding ,use of   
,powers4   ,the ,body the ,medium of the
 ,soul's ,expression4   ,what           
,constitutes ,success8   ,rules for     
,acquiring ,personal ,magnetism4        
,spirit ,manifests ,only ,through       
,matter4   ,fasting ,not ,wise4         
,psychic ,science ,teaches the ,study of
 ,,all ,,things4   ,the ,yogi of ,india4
   ,individuality the ,one ,essential4  
,character ,indestructible4             
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,,revelations ,,of ,,the ,,hand         
,how to ,know ,human ,nature       ,a   
,scientific ,study of the ,shape and    
,markings of the ,hand1 as              
an ,index to ,character1 ,disease and   
,tendencies                     ,with   

,explanatory ,illustrations4            
,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall          ,the     
,most ,practical ,,science ,,of         
,,palmistry ,ever ,published6           
,,partial ,,contents    ,,part          
,i--,,cheirognomy4    ,chapter4         
#a--,the ,seven ,types of ,hands        
#b--,the ,primitive or ,elementary      
,hand4   #c--,the ,square ,type of      
,hand4   #d--,the ,spatulate ,type of   
,hand4   #e--,the ,conic ,type of ,hand4
   #f--,the ,philosophic ,type of ,hand4
   #g--,the ,psychic ,type of ,hand4    
#h--,the ,mixed ,type of ,hand4         
#i--,the ,fingers4   #aj--,the ,thumb4  
#aa--,the ,nails4   #ab--,large and     
,small1 ,hard and ,soft ,hands4         
#ac--,the ,colour of the ,palms4        
#ad--,the ,mounts4   #ae--,right and    
,left ,hands4   #af--,resume of         
,cheirognomy4     ,,part                
#b--;,,cheiromancy4    ,chapter4        
#a--,the ,lines of the ,hand4   #b--,the
 ,line of ,life4   #c--,the ,line of    

,mentality or ,head4   #d--,the ,line of
 ,heart4   #e--,the ,line of ,fate4     
#f--,the ,line of ,apollo1 or ,sun4     
#g--,the ,line of ,health or ,liver4    
#h--,the ,girdle of ,venus4   #i--,the  
,via ,lascivia1 ,the ,line of ,mars and 
the ,line of ,intuition4   #aj--,the    
,line of ,marriage2 ,children4          
#aa--,the ,rascette and ,minor ,lines4  
#ab--,lines of ,influence and ,travel   
,lines4   #ac--;,character of the       
,lines4   #ad--,signs ,found on the     
,palm4   #ae--,the ,great ,triangle and 
the ,quadrangle4   #af--;,how to ,reckon
 ,time4 ,systems of ,seven and ,ten4    
#ag--;,abnormal ,tendencies4            
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,,little ,,journeys ,,to ,,the ,,land   
,,of ,,the ,,living ,,dead              
,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall                   
,author of       ,sex--,the ,unknown    
,quantity1 ,the ,dead ,speak6 ,the      
,swastika                               
,series1 ,etc4    ,we are living in an  
age of earnest inquiry and enhanced     
knowledge in   respect to ourselves as  
spiritual beings1 and that great and    
wonderful   ,universe of ,spirit to     
which we are inseparably allied4 ,the   
author is   devoting his life to        
establishing better conditions on earth1
 by   bringing the two worlds into      
closer association4 ,no one can read    
this   book with an unprejudiced mind1  
without absorbing some of its grand     
and inspiring truth and be uplifted and 
made better by it4    ,chapter #a4      
,the ,advent of ,psychic ,research4     
,chapter #b4   ,the ,dangers in ,psychic
 ,research and ,how to ,avoid ,them4    

,chapter #c4   ,physical                
,manifestations3 ,table-,rapping1       
,levitation1 ,etc4    ,chapter #d4      
,automatism4    ,chapter #e4   ,haunted 
,houses4    ,chapter #f4   ,spirit      
,interlopers4    ,chapter #g4           
,vampirism and ,astral ,hypnosis4       
,chapter #h4   ,prevision4    ,chapter  
#i4   ,the ,mystery of ,trance4         
,chapter #aj4   ,the ,mystery of        
,dreams4    ,chapter #aa4   ,phantasms  
of the ,living4    ,chapter #ab4   ,the 
,last ,enemy--,death ,overcome6    ,if  
you desire to acquire a knowledge of the
 ,,great ,,spiritual ,,awakening   that 
has dawned upon mankind with the birth  
of the twentieth   century--with a mind 
and heart open to those scientific and  
spiritual   truths that are daily being 
proven by scientists and thinkers of    
world-repute--we take the liberty of    
reminding you there is no book   more   
enlightening1 no work more appreciated1 
no effort more powerful1   than this    
book4    ,there is a difference between 

this book and others upon the           
subject--it is not an ordinary chronicle
 of unconnected notations but   a       
romantic story of extraordinary interest
 and value for the spiritual   and      
scientific truths which set forth the   
most advanced knowledge of   the deeper 
things of the ,soul so simply that any  
reader of ordinary   intelligence can   
grasp1 comprehend and apply those laws  
whose values   extend the usefulness of 
every ,truth seeker who is seeking light
 upon   the ,,mysteries ,,of ,,life1    
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,by                              ,ali   

,nomad                     ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall                   
,author of      ,sex--,the ,unknown     
,quantity1 ,the ,dead ,speak1 ,the      
,swastika                               
,series1 ,etc4                          
,,read    ,an ,exposition of the        
,peculiar ,phenomenon ,which ,is        
,puzzling ,science3   ,its ,analogy to  
the ,mystical ,phenomena of the ,brahm1 
,zen and ,other   ,oriental ,sects2 ,its
 ,meaning and ,its ,future4    ,with    
,simple1 ,concise and ,thoroughly       
,practical ,methods of ,inducing the    
,phenomenon4    ,presenting a new and   
startling theory of the meaning and     
scope of the   prophecy current among   
the ancients and revived at the present 
time1   of the coming of a new ,christ2 
the prophecy elucidated and explained   
in the light of ,to-day2 what it means  
and what it will lead to4               
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,,proofs ,,of ,,immortality    ,the     
,scientific ,revelation of ,natural     
,laws ,prove the ,continuity of ,life   
,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall                   
,,contents                              
,,proofs ,,of ,,immortality    ,if ,man 
,die ,shall ,he ,live ,again8   ,the    
,invisible ,something ,that ,survives   
,death4   ,a ,case ,that ,will ,bear    
,quoting4   ,seeing ,through ,opaque    
,substances4   ,faith ,is ,not          
,fact--,evidence ,not ,proof4   ,proof  
,must ,rest ,upon ,individual           
,experience4   ,the ,psychic ,body      
,basis of ,organism4   ,all ,life ,is   
,manifested in ,form4   ,science ,stands
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,,ghosts                      ,the      
,message of the ,illuminati4            
,by                   ,dr4 ,alexander   
,j4 ,mc,ivor-,tyndall                   
,founded ,upon ,henrik ,ibsen's         
,psychological ,masterpiece             
,,the ,,ghosts ,,we ,,meet ,,every ,,day
    ,the ghosts we meet on the street2  
in commercial and social life4          
,ghosts of dead ideas2 ,ghosts of fear2 
,ghosts of false standards of           
morality2 false ideals of living4       
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