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MYSTERY OF SEX POLARITY: Creative Principle Behind Law of Attraction - William Walker Atkinson (1909) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: The Mystery of Sex or sex Polarity by William Walker
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  Speaker 1: Atkinson nineteen o nine, Chapter one, The Universality of Sex.
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  Speaker 1: All the ancient occult and esoteric fraternities, organizations, and schools
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  Speaker 1: agreed upon one point, the universality of sex. They realize
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  Speaker 1: that the sex principle was manifest through all the cosmos,
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  Speaker 1: and that it was in activity throughout all the universe.
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  Speaker 1: The phallic cross symbol is found in use in nearly
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  Speaker 1: every occult organization or body, and signifies the teaching that
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  Speaker 1: the male and female principles are imminent in each and
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  Speaker 1: every form of nature's activities and manifestations. It will be
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  Speaker 1: noticed in many of the older writings that the term
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  Speaker 1: gender is used in preference to sex. This arises from
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the primal idea of sex, as understood
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  Speaker 1: in occultism, is that of begetting, bringing forth, procreating, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: of which the term gender is peculiarly significant and expressive.
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  Speaker 1: Occultists realize that the work of procreation is manifest on
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  Speaker 1: every plane, physical, mental, and spiritual, and that the gender
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  Speaker 1: principle is active everywhere, at all times, in all ways.
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  Speaker 1: But in this little book we shall use the term
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  Speaker 1: sex in preference to gender for several reasons, the understanding being,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that the term is employed in its widest
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  Speaker 1: and most universal sense, rather than as referring to the
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  Speaker 1: particular sex manifestation of living things or the human race.
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  Speaker 1: In particular, the arcane teaching embraces the well established occult
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  Speaker 1: doctrine of the universality of sex. It holds that not
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  Speaker 1: only on the physical plane, but also on the mental
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual planes, is sex apparent. That not only in
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  Speaker 1: the living organic forms, but also in the so called
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  Speaker 1: lifeless and inorganic forms, is the principle of sex in evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The principle of sex is bound up with the law
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  Speaker 1: of the opposites, of which we have spoken at length
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  Speaker 1: in dad other works. Sex is a manifestation of the
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  Speaker 1: great law of polarity, which is in evidence throughout the cosmos.
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  Speaker 1: The sexes are counterparts, opposites, contrasting poles of being. There
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  Speaker 1: is always to be found the male principle, which energizes, procreates,
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  Speaker 1: and stirs into activity, and there is always to be
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  Speaker 1: found the female principle, which produces, conceives, and brings forth.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the ancient arcane teachers directed the attention of
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  Speaker 1: their neophytes to the fact that even in the fundamental
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  Speaker 1: activities of the creation of the cosmos, the principle of
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  Speaker 1: sex was apparent. The Law was held to represent the
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  Speaker 1: male principle, acting and moving upon the infinity of nothingness,
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  Speaker 1: and causing the latter to conceive, bear, and bring forth
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  Speaker 1: the activities, shapes, and forms of the universe. It will
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  Speaker 1: be remembered that the Law in itself does not conceive, bear,
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  Speaker 1: and bring forth, but acts merely as the controlling, energizing
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  Speaker 1: spirit which incites into activity the creative powers inherent in
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  Speaker 1: the infinity of nothingness. The latter is distinctively the female principle,
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  Speaker 1: for it is acted upon by the energies of the
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  Speaker 1: Law those through a period of cosmic conception, bears in
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  Speaker 1: its body the new cosmos, and finally brings forth the
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  Speaker 1: new world in all its youthful vigor and activity. The
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  Speaker 1: Law is the absolute, The cosmos is the infinite. The
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  Speaker 1: absolute is the moving and energizing power. The infinite contains
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  Speaker 1: within itself the possibility of all things, the creative properties
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  Speaker 1: which conceive, bear, and bring forth the cosmos. This idea
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  Speaker 1: of the manifestation of the sex principle in the cosmic
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  Speaker 1: activities is carried out in the symbology of the ages,
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  Speaker 1: and the figurative terms of even our own age show
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  Speaker 1: the insistent desire of the mind to express the thought.
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  Speaker 1: We always speak and think of nature as the feminine principle,
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  Speaker 1: containing in her womb the seat of all shapes and
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  Speaker 1: forms and things, and bringing forth all the forms of
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  Speaker 1: life that fill the world. Mother Nature is the term
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  Speaker 1: embodying the idea. How ridiculous it would seem to speak
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  Speaker 1: or think of father nature, and yet the mind instinctively
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  Speaker 1: recognizes that there can be no mother without a father,
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  Speaker 1: and seeks to find the paternal principle above nature. It
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  Speaker 1: will be noticed that in all the religions past, present,
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  Speaker 1: living or dead, the sovereign power or supreme deity is
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  Speaker 1: always male. But at the same time, this supreme male
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  Speaker 1: principle is never pictured or thought of as producing the
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  Speaker 1: universe of individuals, shapes, and forms, as in the case
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  Speaker 1: of our ideas of nature. The male deific principle is
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  Speaker 1: always pictured as performing a creative act of some sort
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  Speaker 1: by word, thought, or will, which in some way acts
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  Speaker 1: upon another vague and nebulous something or a nothing, and
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  Speaker 1: causes it to produce, bear, and bring forth. In the
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  Speaker 1: ancient religions, there was always a recognition of the male
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  Speaker 1: and female deific principles. In some cases these were symbolized
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  Speaker 1: by deities male and female, as for instance, the male
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  Speaker 1: Osiris and the female Isis in the Egyptian mythology. In
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  Speaker 1: others there was a personification of God in nature male
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  Speaker 1: and female in principle. The Hindu religions all recognize this
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  Speaker 1: principle of deific sex, and their male gods are always
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  Speaker 1: pictured as having female counterparts or mates. Even when their
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  Speaker 1: gods are recognized as being principles instead of persons, the
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  Speaker 1: female principle will always be found accompanying the male. To
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  Speaker 1: the Oriental there is always the divine mother as well
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  Speaker 1: as the divine Father, whether regarded as principle or person.
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  Speaker 1: Sex is manifest in all material forms, from the atom
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  Speaker 1: to the highest organized living being. In the particles composing matter,
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  Speaker 1: the atoms and the smaller particles which go to form
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  Speaker 1: the atom, we find the polarity of sex manifesting in
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  Speaker 1: the activities of attraction and repulsion, love and hate. The
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  Speaker 1: atom itself is now held by the leading scientific authorities
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  Speaker 1: to be composed of thousands of infinitesimal particles called ions,
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  Speaker 1: electrons or corpusoles. These electrons are held to be of
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  Speaker 1: two kinds so far as quality is concerned, namely positive
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  Speaker 1: and negative. These positive and negative electrons whirl around each other,
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  Speaker 1: never coming in actual contact, but always exerting an attractive
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  Speaker 1: or repulsive effect upon each other. The best authorities hold
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  Speaker 1: that the atom is formed by the action of numerous
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  Speaker 1: negative particles which cluster around a single positive particle, the
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  Speaker 1: latter seemingly exerting some kind of energy or force upon
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  Speaker 1: the negative particles, causing them to group themselves in certain
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  Speaker 1: ways to form certain combinations, the result of which is
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  Speaker 1: the creation of the atom. The various elements of different
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  Speaker 1: fundamental kinds of matter are held to obtain their special
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  Speaker 1: varieties of elemental nature by reason of the various groupings
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  Speaker 1: and combinations of these negative electrons around the one positive electron.
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  Speaker 1: This action of the electrons of which matter is formed
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  Speaker 1: is in close accordance with the ancient arcane teaching regarding
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  Speaker 1: the male and female particles of matter, which by action
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  Speaker 1: and reaction tend to build up the more complex forms
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  Speaker 1: the moment. We recognize that the positive is the male principle,
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  Speaker 1: and that negative the female. We may read the modern
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  Speaker 1: scientific teachings in the light of the ancient wisdom. The
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  Speaker 1: word negative is a poor one, however, with which to
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  Speaker 1: describe the principle of generative activity. But the actions and
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  Speaker 1: properties of this negative aspect of matter prove that it
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  Speaker 1: is really the female principle masquerading under a poor name.
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  Speaker 1: The negative pole of an electrical battery is really the
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  Speaker 1: generative pole. Many of the best authorities are now using
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  Speaker 1: the term cathode to designate the negative pole of the battery,
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  Speaker 1: the new term arising from a Greek word meaning descent,
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  Speaker 1: the path of generation, et cetera. From this cathode or
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  Speaker 1: female pole of the battery swarm the corpusals or electrons,
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  Speaker 1: the new rays recently discovered by science, and the strange
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  Speaker 1: and little understood energies which are tending to revolutionize scientific thought.
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  Speaker 1: Always from the negative cathode or female pole or element
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  Speaker 1: of the battery come these strange things. The positive or
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  Speaker 1: male pole or element never brings forth, although it is
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  Speaker 1: needed to energize and vivify. The complementary element or poll
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  Speaker 1: is not the feminine nature. Proven by the strongest kind
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  Speaker 1: of analogy is not the male element likewise seen to
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  Speaker 1: be in evidence. This cannot arise from mere coincidence, particularly
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  Speaker 1: when we may see that the sex principle is manifest
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  Speaker 1: throughout all of nature's activities. The detached electrons which compose
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  Speaker 1: the various rays and strange energies which are engaging the
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  Speaker 1: attention of modern science are negative or female. The negative
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  Speaker 1: electron travels through space, either being cast off by its
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  Speaker 1: male ruler, or else leaving of its own accord and
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  Speaker 1: flying through space. It repels and is repelled by other
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  Speaker 1: female particles or electrons, and this action of repulsion creates
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  Speaker 1: certain disturbances or activities in the field of force. When
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  Speaker 1: it comes into the near neighborhood of a male or
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  Speaker 1: positive electron, an attractive force is manifested, each being attracted
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  Speaker 1: to the other and leaving their orbits in order to
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  Speaker 1: meet the other. Scientists hold that this attraction and repulsion,
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  Speaker 1: these unitings and separations, these marriages and divorces among the electrons,
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  Speaker 1: are the cause of the greater manifestations of energy or
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  Speaker 1: force and the creation of matter. When the female electron
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  Speaker 1: comes within the influence of the male, it begins to
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  Speaker 1: vibrate and circle around the latter in company with its
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  Speaker 1: sister particles. This movement and vibration is held to be
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  Speaker 1: the vibration from which arises all forms of matter and
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  Speaker 1: all varieties of force or energy on the material plane. Light, heat, magnetism, electricity,
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  Speaker 1: chemical affinity, cohesion, and the other forms of energy arise
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  Speaker 1: from the vibration caused by the action and reaction of
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  Speaker 1: the male and female principles of the electrons. The polarity
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  Speaker 1: to be observed in the phenomena of magnetism and electricity
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  Speaker 1: is distinctly a sex manifestation. As we have set a
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  Speaker 1: little further back, the attraction and repulsion manifested by the
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  Speaker 1: several poles of the battery or magnet is seen to
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  Speaker 1: be closely related to sex phenomena on other planes of activity.
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  Speaker 1: A leading dictionary gives the following definition of polarity. The
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  Speaker 1: disposition in a body to exhibit opposite or contrasted properties
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  Speaker 1: or powers in opposite or contrasted directions. The existence of
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  Speaker 1: two points called poles possessing contrary tendencies, for example, the
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  Speaker 1: attraction or repulsion at the opposite ends of a magnet.
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  Speaker 1: Opposite tendencies in polarized light et ce Chapter two, The
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  Speaker 1: Law of Love. Not only do we find manifestations of
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  Speaker 1: the creative sex principle in the animal and vegetable forms
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  Speaker 1: of things, but even in the world of minerals it
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  Speaker 1: is in evidence. In the crystallization of minerals, there is
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  Speaker 1: to be observed a phenomenon closely allied to the processes
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  Speaker 1: of reproduction. In the lowest forms of animal and vegetable
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  Speaker 1: cell life, the cells reproduce them cells by growth and division.
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  Speaker 1: The crystals do likewise from the mother liquid. The infant
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  Speaker 1: crystals begin to form. Once formed, they draw to themselves
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  Speaker 1: more nourishment from the mother liquid and begin to form
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  Speaker 1: the nucleus of a new crystal, which is finally split
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  Speaker 1: off from the older crystal. In many ways, the phenomena
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  Speaker 1: of crystallization resemble those of the manifestation of creative sex
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  Speaker 1: activity in cell life, and this is to be expected,
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  Speaker 1: for if the sex principle is universal, then it must
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  Speaker 1: be in evidence in at least a faint degree in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the atoms back of the crystal shape. We
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  Speaker 1: may see it in operation in the shape of chemical affinity,
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  Speaker 1: even in the electrons of which the atom is composed.
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  Speaker 1: We may see its presence indicated by the posts positive
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  Speaker 1: male electrons and the negative female counterparts, the first energizing
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  Speaker 1: and the latter generating shape and form. And even in
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  Speaker 1: the energies and forces of nature we see the evidences
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  Speaker 1: of polarization, which in the end is a manifestation of sex.
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  Speaker 1: William Marion Reedy, in his brilliant essay entitled The Law
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  Speaker 1: of Love, calls attention to the universality of the sex principle,
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  Speaker 1: or as he calls it, the principle of love. He says,
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  Speaker 1: among other things, Professor Vaughan Schron's recent alleged discovery of
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  Speaker 1: life and sex in crystals need not astonish the world.
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  Speaker 1: Man has felt that there was nothing inanimate from the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of time. His intuition has always been in advance
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  Speaker 1: of his reason. His poetry has led his science everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The oneness of things is being demonstrated in these days.
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  Speaker 1: That is all, biology has resolved life back to the
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  Speaker 1: single cell, in which all the senses are converged. Sex
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  Speaker 1: is a differentiation of the single cell. Philologists assert that
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  Speaker 1: originally the name of God in every language was both
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  Speaker 1: masculine and feminine. Life is but force matter holds together
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  Speaker 1: by force. Matter therefore has life. The star is brother
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  Speaker 1: to the clod, the moth is kin to the mastodon.
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  Speaker 1: Worlds are made to blossom in space, as flowers are
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  Speaker 1: fructified by floating pollen. Mingling atoms make suns. Cell seeks
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  Speaker 1: affinity with cell. Dust blown from the unimaginable outer rim
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  Speaker 1: of silence, finds its fellow dust and engaging in amorous whirl,
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  Speaker 1: a nebula is formed, and from that nebula suns and
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  Speaker 1: systems of suns. Worlds in contact give birth to worlds.
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  Speaker 1: The crystals meet and kiss and mingle and produce other crystals.
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  Speaker 1: Love is the only law. Love is spirit, and matter
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  Speaker 1: is the child of spirit. All this, any man who
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  Speaker 1: reads may known reedy continues nowhere says Balzac is motion
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  Speaker 1: sterile everywhere it engenders number, but it may be neutralized
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  Speaker 1: by a superior resistance, as in minerals. This neutralization professor
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  Speaker 1: Schron's discovery disproves conclusively if he has made the discovery.
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  Speaker 1: The motion is in the crystal itself, the instinct, whereby
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  Speaker 1: it seeks out its mate, that it may increase and
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  Speaker 1: multiply out of the single cell protoplasm Amieba bordicella in combination,
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  Speaker 1: but each seeking its own comes variation or number, and
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  Speaker 1: ultimately harmony. The atoms themselves, almost inconceivable, operate upon one
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  Speaker 1: another in the workings of these forces. The pollen from
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  Speaker 1: the flower finds its way to another miles away and
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  Speaker 1: fecundates it, as Schmid's father, born in Germany, found his mother,
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  Speaker 1: born in Australia, to the seemingly unimportant end that Schmid
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  Speaker 1: should come to be. Surely those ancients were not far
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  Speaker 1: wrong in deeming the atoms themselves endowed with conscious intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: There is life in everything, in everywhere, and no life
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  Speaker 1: without love. As a man lies with a woman to
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  Speaker 1: perpetuate their kind, so do all things infinitesimal and vast
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  Speaker 1: through nature, bed with each other. The phallus is a
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  Speaker 1: mightier symbol than the virtuous worship of it. It is
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  Speaker 1: found even in the cross. The sciences are a study
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  Speaker 1: of the universal lust. Flower fecundates flower, though one sends
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  Speaker 1: it seeds to another on the wings of a wandering
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  Speaker 1: and uncertain bee. There is a reign of life between
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  Speaker 1: the planets. Collisions scatter world fragments in the far furrows
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  Speaker 1: of space, and the fragments are gathered up by other
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  Speaker 1: planets and life transferred to them from systems that have
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  Speaker 1: ceased to be. In mathematics, numbers cohabit and the results
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  Speaker 1: are glimpses of the secrets of infinity. In chemistry, fluids
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  Speaker 1: and solids mingle to make things new. In physics, the
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  Speaker 1: savagery and the tenderness of force in destruction or reproduction
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  Speaker 1: produces power. Biology shows us the operation of the same
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  Speaker 1: affection to the development of life, differentiation, selection, organization. All
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  Speaker 1: these are processes of intelligent amorousness in matter. This intelligent
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  Speaker 1: amorousness is the spirit in matter, the love that makes
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  Speaker 1: the world go round, that holds the universe Ensnared Reedy
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  Speaker 1: concludes as follows, But where does it end this intelligent amorousness.
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  Speaker 1: There is a limit to the finite, but the finite
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  Speaker 1: is part of the infinite. It would seem that the
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  Speaker 1: pursuit of this law of love would bring one only
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  Speaker 1: to the unknowable, pushing it only a little further back,
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  Speaker 1: love may follow. Where love leads unto the essence of God,
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  Speaker 1: even for God is love. The material aspect of love
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  Speaker 1: dwelt on. So far need not deter us from pushing
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  Speaker 1: farther north. To whoso believes in the oneness of matter
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. There is no unknowable the end of the
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  Speaker 1: law of love and of the spiritual faculties, for its
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  Speaker 1: perception can be the knowing of this unknowable union with
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  Speaker 1: the infinite. Let us make a flight. The arcane teachers
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  Speaker 1: see the presence of sex not only in the material
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  Speaker 1: forces and the forms of matter, but also in the
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  Speaker 1: very mind, in spirit itself. The teaching is that every
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  Speaker 1: individual has not only evidences of both sexes within himself
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  Speaker 1: or herself in the physical body, but also that each
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  Speaker 1: has the elements of both sex principles within his mental realm.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain mental faculties distinctly masculine in their characteristics,
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  Speaker 1: such as the will, the logical faculties, et cetera. There
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  Speaker 1: are also certain faculties which are distinctly feminine in their characteristics,
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  Speaker 1: such as the emotions or feelings, the imaginative faculties, memory,
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  Speaker 1: and intuition. Every individual, male or female contains within himself
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  Speaker 1: or herself this dual nature of mind. The imagination, memory,
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  Speaker 1: and intuition are essentially feminine in all of their characteristics.
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  Speaker 1: Their work is a bringing forth an exercise of the
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  Speaker 1: reproductive function on the mental plane. Nay more, even desire
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  Speaker 1: is feminine in its nature and operates by coaxing, alluring,
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  Speaker 1: and drawing the will into action. The will and the
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  Speaker 1: logical faculties are essentially masculine and operate in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of energizing, applying force or energy, and stimulating the other
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  Speaker 1: faculties to action. Moreover, that region of the mind, which
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  Speaker 1: is known to modern psychologists as the subjective, that is subconscious,
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  Speaker 1: that is subliminal, is feminine in its activities. It produces
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  Speaker 1: and brings forth. It is procreative in its nature. On
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, the objective or outer mind is essentially
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  Speaker 1: masculine in its nature. It creates nothing, but merely acts
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  Speaker 1: upon the feminine mentality in the direction of inciting it
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  Speaker 1: to activity and reproductive functioning. Intuition is distinctively feminine and
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  Speaker 1: is diametrically opposite in polarization to its companion logical reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: We have not the space to follow up this thought
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  Speaker 1: in detail, but those who are familiar with the characteristics
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  Speaker 1: of the various mental faculties and regions of the mind
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  Speaker 1: will have no trouble in identifying and classifying them. According
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  Speaker 1: to their mental sex. In connection with the subject of
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  Speaker 1: the manifestation of sex on the mental plane, we may
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  Speaker 1: say here that the arcane teachers hold that the phenomena
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  Speaker 1: of thought, transference, telepathy, mental influence, hypnotism, et cetera are
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  Speaker 1: explainable only by the admission of the existence of sex
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  Speaker 1: in the mind. The workings of suggestion and auto suggestion
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  Speaker 1: are also explained when this principle is grasped. This idea
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  Speaker 1: of sex in the mental faculties and regions gives one
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  Speaker 1: the key to psychic phenomena. All energizing or projection by
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  Speaker 1: thought waves, et cetera is caused by the activities of
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  Speaker 1: the masculine principles of mind being employed. All receiving or
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  Speaker 1: impression of the influences so sent forth is caused by
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  Speaker 1: the activities of the feminine principles of the mind. The
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  Speaker 1: thought or suggestion sent forth is a masculine effort, its
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  Speaker 1: reception is feminine. The result arising therefrom is essentially procreative
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  Speaker 1: or reproductive, and is manifested by the feminine principle. Always
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  Speaker 1: the domination of some persons by the will of others
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  Speaker 1: is akin to the tyranny exercised by the male in
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  Speaker 1: many forms of life, not accepting the human kind. The alluring, fascinating, coaxing, attracting,
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  Speaker 1: and drawing activities of desire are decidedly feminine and often
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  Speaker 1: enmeshed the strongest will, just as the strongest man often
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  Speaker 1: surrenders to a fascinating woman's wishes. The will operates by force.
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  Speaker 1: Desire operates more subtly, but not the less strongly. The
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  Speaker 1: individual manifesting strong will power exercises his or her masculine mentality,
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  Speaker 1: while the man or woman manifesting personal magnetism, charming and
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: fascinating those with whom he or she comes in contact,
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  Speaker 1: exercises his or her feminine mentality. The wolf forces and
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  Speaker 1: drives the desire, emotion, feeling, or magnetism draws and attracts.
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  Speaker 1: The feminine is always the finer, subtler force, which in
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  Speaker 1: the end overcomes the apparently stronger force of the masculine mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Each However, the masculine and feminine has its place, and
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  Speaker 1: the best work is performed when they are both strongly
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  Speaker 1: developed and actively employed. An understanding of this subject of
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  Speaker 1: sex in mental action will give the magic glasses through
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  Speaker 1: which many of the riddles of psychology may be seen
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  Speaker 1: clearly solved. We suggest that those to whom the idea
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: is new, put on these glasses of the new understanding,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and read anew their old works on psychology, psychic phenomena, occultism,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: new thought, et cetera, and see how clearly illumined many
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: hitherto two dark pages have grown. Chapter three, The evolution
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  Speaker 1: of sex. It was at one time believed by many,
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  Speaker 1: in fact by all persons, that some of the lower
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: forms of life originated spontaneously, that is, without being reproduced
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  Speaker 1: from some parental life form. It was thought that frogs
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  Speaker 1: and other reptiles, worms and small insects, and other lowly
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  Speaker 1: forms of life originated from the dust of the earth
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  Speaker 1: or the slime of the river bed. But science has
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  Speaker 1: brushed aside all such erroneous ideas into the great dust
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  Speaker 1: bin of discarded theories, and has firmly established the doctrine
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  Speaker 1: that all life proceeds from life. Reproduction is universal among
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  Speaker 1: the living forms, and reproduction always presupposes the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: sex in at least an elementary degree. The lowest forms
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  Speaker 1: of life are found in the slime of the ocean bed.
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  Speaker 1: These elementary forms are but little more than drops of
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  Speaker 1: gelatinous glue, without apparent or perceptible ordas, but yet manifesting
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  Speaker 1: the activities of life in nutrition, assimilation, elimination, and reproduction,
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  Speaker 1: and science will later on discover the presence of sex
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  Speaker 1: and even these primitive forms to account for the processes
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  Speaker 1: of reproduction, which will be in accord with the old
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  Speaker 1: occult teachings on the subject. The simplest form of reproduction
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  Speaker 1: is that of some of these lowly forms of life,
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  Speaker 1: which consists simply of division. The minute cell grows to
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  Speaker 1: a certain size and then begins to separate itself into
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  Speaker 1: two cells. For a short time, these two cells are
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  Speaker 1: connected by a minute filament, causing them to resemble a
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  Speaker 1: miniature dumbell. Then the filament breaks and the two single
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: cell creatures become separate individuals. Later on, each one of
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  Speaker 1: these cells divides itself into another pair, and so on,
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  Speaker 1: generation after generation. Science so far has not discovered evidence
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  Speaker 1: of sex activities in this process of reproduction, but reasoning
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: by analogy, it may be seen that the old occult
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  Speaker 1: teaching is correct, and that before this division or separation
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  Speaker 1: can take place, there must be a process of fertilization
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  Speaker 1: of one cell by another at certain periods, the effect
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  Speaker 1: of which is continued through several generations of cells. It
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  Speaker 1: has been noted that if the cells are kept apart
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  Speaker 1: from foreign cells, the process of separation ceases after a
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  Speaker 1: certain number of generations, and the particular branch becomes extinct,
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  Speaker 1: so that it is reasonable to suppose that the generative
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  Speaker 1: and reproductive function must be stimulated from time to time
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  Speaker 1: by sexual action and fertilization. A step higher in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: scale is that of the protozoon, which also reproduces itself
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  Speaker 1: by subdivision. But before this subdivision takes place, there occurs
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  Speaker 1: a union of two separate cells in what is called conjugation,
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  Speaker 1: after which the processes of separation or subdivision begin. But
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: instead of merely two separate cells forming from the original cell,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there appears a subdivision into many cells, the young cells
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: appearing as buds upon the combined parent cells, similar in
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: appearance to the buds of the plant. These buds afterward
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  Speaker 1: drop off and pursue their mature individual life, afterward combining
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  Speaker 1: each with another cell and then reproducing as did their parents.
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  Speaker 1: It is not held that the two uniting cells are
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  Speaker 1: distinctively male or female, but that they possess the quality
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  Speaker 1: of dual sexuality, as do some animals much higher in
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  Speaker 1: the scale. When the union takes place, the male element
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  Speaker 1: of each fertilizes the female element of the other, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the reproduction follows. Thereupon, Maupus says, the para or micronucleus
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  Speaker 1: is a hermaphrodite sexual element of sole importance in conjugation.
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  Speaker 1: The stages of the process are as follows. One, the
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  Speaker 1: micronucleus increases in size. Two division occurs until there are
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  Speaker 1: eight micronuclei. Three of these eight seven disappear. Four The
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  Speaker 1: remaining one divides again, differentiating a male and female pro nucleus. Five.
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  Speaker 1: In the next stage, the male elements of the two
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  Speaker 1: individuals are exchanged, and the new male nucleus fuses with
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  Speaker 1: the original female portion. Six. Finally, the individuals, separating from
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  Speaker 1: one another, reassume all their original organization before beginning again
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  Speaker 1: to divide in the usual fashion. Geddi says, sometimes as
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  Speaker 1: many as three or four spores of lowly algae club together,
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  Speaker 1: as if to gather sufficient momentum to make a combined
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  Speaker 1: start in life. The young forms of the sun animalcule
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  Speaker 1: usually unite in twos, but Gabriel has observed in some
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  Speaker 1: cases of multiple union. In another sun animalcule, two to
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  Speaker 1: thirty individuals may unite loosely in what is called plastogamy,
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  Speaker 1: but close union of nuclei occurs only between two individuals.
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  Speaker 1: So in gregorines, while the usual union is certainly dual,
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  Speaker 1: Gruber has observed what may be called multiple conjugation. Conjugation
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  Speaker 1: of two similar unicellular organisms occurs, as we have seen
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  Speaker 1: very generally in the protozoa, and is also a common
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  Speaker 1: fact in the life history of simple algae. Opposite cells
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  Speaker 1: of adjacent filaments are attracted to one another, and the
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  Speaker 1: contents of one cell pass bodily over into the other.
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  Speaker 1: In the great majority of cases where conjugation occurs, the
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  Speaker 1: uniting cells are to all appearances similar, but it must
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  Speaker 1: be remembered that it does not follow from this that
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  Speaker 1: they are physiologically alike. In fertilization among higher plants and animals,
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  Speaker 1: the two elements which unite are highly differentiated, alike in
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: contrast to one another and in opposition to the general
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  Speaker 1: cells of the body. A consideration of the phenomena in
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: loose protist colonies, which suggest a bridge between unicellular and
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: multicellular organisms. Shows how gradually this latter contrast also may
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: have been brought about. As the scale of life ascends
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: under the impulse of the evolutionary urge, the life forms
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: begin to develop organs, by means of which the second
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: activities may be better performed. In some cases, the individuals
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: are sharply separated into male and female in their sexual functioning,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: although preserving their similar outward appearance, while in others each
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: individual possesses the organs of both sexes, this state being
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  Speaker 1: styled hermaphroditism. This state is quite common among some of
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  Speaker 1: the lower forms of living things. The oyster and other
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  Speaker 1: shell fish, the barnacles and allied forms, the tapeworm, the earthworm,
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  Speaker 1: and even the members of the snail family are hermaphroditic.
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  Speaker 1: Among some of the higher forms of life, even occasionally
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  Speaker 1: in man, this condition is manifested as a reversion or
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  Speaker 1: abnormal condition, but in many of the lower forms this
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: condition is the natural and normal one. But it must
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: be remembered that even in the human race, each sex
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  Speaker 1: has organs which are rudimentary complementaries to the developed organs
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  Speaker 1: of the other sex. The breasts and prostate. Gland in
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the male and the clitoris in the female are examples
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  Speaker 1: of this. A fish is sometimes male on one side
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  Speaker 1: and female on the other. Male frogs sometimes contain well
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  Speaker 1: developed ovaries. Geddy says, an organism may be said to
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  Speaker 1: be truly hermaphrodite when both male and female organs are present,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: or when, without there being separate organs, both male and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: female elements are produced. It is then both anatomically and
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  Speaker 1: physiologically hermaphrodite. And of this, as we shall see, there
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: are abundant illustrations among the lower animals. Snail, earthworm, and
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: leech are examples of this hermaphroditism in varying degrees of intimacy.
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  Speaker 1: There are two theories regarding the origin of hermaphroditism, one
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: view holding that hermaphroditism was the primitive condition and that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the unisexual or one sex condition resulted therefrom by evolution.
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  Speaker 1: The second view being that unisexuality was the original condition
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  Speaker 1: and that hermaphroditism evolved therefrom. Other authorities hold that both
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: may be true, and that the original and secondary conditions
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: varied with different species. Gedi says, one view of the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: matter is that hermaphroditism was the primitive state among the
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  Speaker 1: multicellular animals, at least after the differentiation of the sex
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: elements had been accomplished in alternating rhythms, eggs and sperms
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: were produced, the organism was alternately male and female. Of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: this primitive hermaphroditism, there may be more or less of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a recapitulation in the life history of the organism. Gagenboor
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  Speaker 1: states the common opinion in the following cautious and terse words,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the hermaphrodite stage is the lower and the condition of
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: distinct sexes has been derived from it. Unisexual differentiation by
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the reduction of one kind of sexual apparatus takes place
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  Speaker 1: at very different stages in the development of the organism,
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  Speaker 1: and often when the sexual organs have attained a very
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: high degree of differentiation. The first structural stage in the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: separation would probably be the restriction of areas in which
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the formation of two kinds of cell still went on
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  Speaker 1: at different times in one organism in different individuals. The
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  Speaker 1: opposite tendencies we have already spoken of more and more
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  Speaker 1: predominated till unisexuality evolved out of hermaphroditism. That environmental conditions
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  Speaker 1: are effective in changing the hermaphrodite into the unisexual state
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  Speaker 1: is suggested by many experiments, and it has been shown
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  Speaker 1: in regard to some flowering plants e g. Butcher's broom
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  Speaker 1: Ruscus acliatus, that the monoecious or dioecious condition may be
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  Speaker 1: evoked by altering the nutritive conditions. Quite different is the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: view which regards hermaphroditism as a secondary condition. Newman maintains
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  Speaker 1: that the study of Mollusca, misestromity, Crustacea, and Pisces shows
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  Speaker 1: that in these groups the separation of the sexes preceded hermaphroditism.
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  Speaker 1: Various cases in other groups tend to show that this
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  Speaker 1: is true universally, and the same conclusion applies to plants.
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  Speaker 1: In Mollusca, Crustacea, and Pisces, at least hermaphroditism is grafted
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  Speaker 1: upon the female sex. As an example of the results
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  Speaker 1: of perfect and normal hermaphroditism among the lower forms of life,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the following instance of the method of fecondation among snails
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  Speaker 1: may be mentioned. It must be remembered that the snail
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  Speaker 1: has both male and female sexual organs, both perfectly developed
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  Speaker 1: and both actively employed in the work of reproduction. The
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: process is stated by Professor T. R. Jones f Rus
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  Speaker 1: of England, who says the manner in which snails copulate
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is not a little curious, their union being accompanied by
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: preparatory blandishments of a very extraordinary kind that to a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: spectator would seem rather like a combat between mortal foes
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  Speaker 1: than the tender advances of two lovers. After sundry caresses
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: between the two parties, during which they exhibit an animation
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: quite foreign to them. At other times, one of the
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: snails unfolds from the right side of its neck, where
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the generative orifice is situated, a wide sacculus, which, by
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: becoming averted, displays a sharp dagger like speculum or dart
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: attached to its walls. Having bared this singular weapon, it endeavors,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: if possible, to strike it into some exposed part of
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  Speaker 1: the body of the other snail, who, on the other hand,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: uses every precaution to avoid the blow by speedily retreating
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  Speaker 1: into its shell. But at length, having received the sexual wound,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the smitten snail prepares to retaliate, and in turn uses
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: every effort to puncture its assailant in a similar manner.
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  Speaker 1: The darts are generally broken off in this encounter and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: either fall to the ground or remain fixed in the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: wounds which they have inflicted. After these preparatory stimulations, the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: snails proceed to more effective advances. The sack of the
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: dart is withdrawn into the body, and another sacculus is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: by a like process protruded from the common generitive aperture.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Upon this last named sacculus, two orifices are seen, one
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of which connects with the female generative system of the
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: u s the animal, while from the other a long
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: whiplike filament the male attachment is gradually unfolded, being gradually
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: averted like the finger of a glove, until it attains
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  Speaker 1: the length of an inch or more. Then each of
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  Speaker 1: the two snails impregnates the other and is itself impregnated
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: at the same time. Even in hermaphroditism, however, the female
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: element is the predominant, being more largely concerned with the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: reproductive and generative processes, while the male element apparently exists
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: merely for the purpose of energizing or inciting into creative activity.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: The female element, and as the scale is ascended, the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: male individual becomes specialized, apparently for convenience in forming unions
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: with female organisms removed in space from the original female.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: In the generitive and reproductive the mother element is the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: principal and predominant one Chapter four Sex in plant life.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: To many persons who have not considered this phase of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the subject, it may seem strange to hear. Scientists assert
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that the manifestations and activities of sex are as much
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: in evidence in the world of plant life as among
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the animals. The male and female elements are found in
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: every plant, and reproduction is the result of sex union,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: just as truly as is the case among the animals.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: The flower is the sexual organ, or rather organs of
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the plant. The female element of the flower produces the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: seeds of the plant, but only when it is fertilized
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: with the sexual product of the male element. In some cases,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the male element is found on one plant and the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: female on another. In other cases, the male and female
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: elements are found in different parts of the same plant,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: as for instance, in the case of the Indian corn,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: in which the tassel contains the male element or flowers,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: while the silk contains the female element. Or flowers, the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: gear containing the seeds afterwards emerging from the female element
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: or flower, after the latter has been fertilized by the
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: male element. In the greater number of plants, however, the
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: flower contains both the male and female elements, and is
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: thus fully hermaphroditic. In order to understand the activities of
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: sex among the plants or flowers, let us consider in
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: detail the several parts of the plant sex organs, which
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: we know by the name of flowers. First, we have
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the part of the flower known as the calyx, which
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: is the cup of the flower, which covers its lower
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: and outer parts, and which is generally of a green color. Next,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: we have the corolla, which is the crown of the flower,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: which is composed of petals, usually beautifully colored, and which
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to many constitutes the real flower itself. The klyx and
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: corolla form a cuplike receptacle in which are found the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: two essential and distinctive sex organs of the plant, i e.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: One the stamen or male organ, and two the pistol
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: or female organ. The stamen or male organ of the
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: flower is an upright threadlike filament bearing at its summit
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: two minute sacs, which are called the anthers, and which
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: contain a very fine microscopic dust or powder called the pollen,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the latter being the active male element of reproduction. The pistol,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: or female organ of the flower, is found in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: center of the flower, in the middle of the stamens,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: and which secretes and stores in a tiny cell the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: female element of reproduction, which is called the ovary. Crowning
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the pistol, are found the style and the stigma. Some
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: flowers have but one stamen, others have two, others still
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: have many. Linnaeus was the first great authority to explain
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the sex activities of plants. He says, the flower forms
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the theater of the amors of the plants. The klyx
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: is to be considered as the nuptial bed. The corolla
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: constitutes the curtains. The anthers are the testes, the pollen,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the fecandating fluid, the stigma of the pistol, the external
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: genital aperture, the style, the vagina or the conductor of
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the prolific seed, the ovary of the plant, the womb,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the reciprocal action of the stamens on the pistol, the
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: accessory process of fecondation. Kellogg says, in many instances the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: action of plants seems almost to be prompted by intelligence.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: At the proper moment, the corolla contracts in such a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: way as to bring the stamens nearer to the stigma
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: or in contact with it, so as to procure fecondation.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: In some aquatic plants, the flowers elevate themselves above the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: surface of the water while the process of fecondation is affected,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: submerging themselves again immediately afterward. Other very curious changes occur
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: in flowers of different species. During the reproductive act, the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: stigma is observed to become moistened and even to become
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: slightly odorous. Often, too, it becomes intensely congested with the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: juices of the plant, and sometimes even acquires an uncommon
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and most remarkable degree of contractility. This is the case
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: with the stigma of the tulip in one variety of
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the sensitive plant, and in these plants it is observed
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to occur not only after the application of the pollen
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: to the stigma, but when excited by any other means
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: of stimulation. The flowers of some plants during and after
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: fecondation also show an increase of heat, in some cases
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: so marked as to be readily detected with the thermometer.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: This is said to be especially the case with the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: arim of italy. In some plants in which the pistol
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: is longer than the stamens, thus elevating the stigma above
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the anthers, the female organ is often observed to bend
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: over and depress itself so as to come within reach
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of the anthers. Fertilization of the female elements by the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: pollen of the male element in plant life is affected
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: in numerous and various ways. In instances in which the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: male and female organs are situated on different plants, as
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in the case of the willows et cetera, the pollen
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: is carried to the female flower by the passing breezes,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the transfer often being affected over great distances. But the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: more frequent method, and the one in operation where the
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: male and female elements are near each other, is that
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: of fertilization by means of insects, small birds, and even
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: small animals like the snail. Sprangele was one of the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: first naturalists to discover and announce this secret of nature.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: He anticipated the later researches of Darwin and indeed cleared
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: a path for the later scientists. As Geddy says, Sprangle
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: laid sure foundations now somewhat hidden by the superstructures which
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Darwin and others have built. To Sprangle's eyes, the many
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: ways in which the nectar is protected from rain seemed
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: full of intention. He recognized in the markings of the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: petal's illumined finger posts to lead insects to the hidden hordes,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: and he further demonstrated that in some bisexual flowers it
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: was physically impossible for the pollen from the stamens to
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: pass to the tips of the carpals. His general conclusion,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: freely stated was that since a large number of flowers
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: had the sex is separate, and probably at least as
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: many hermaphrodites have the stamens and carpal's writening at different times,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: nature appears to have designed that no flower shall be
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: fertilized by its own pollen. A few years later, seventeen
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: ninety nine, Andrew Knite maintained that no hermaphrodite flower fertilizes
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: itself for a perpetuity of generations. Sprangle's secret of nature had, however,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: to be set forth afresh by Darwin, who, in his
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Fertilization of Orchids eighteen sixty two and Effects of Cross
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: and self Fertilization eighteen seventy six, has not only shown
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: with great wealth of illustration the manifold devices for ensuring
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: that insects unconsciously carry the fertilizing pollen from one flower
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to another, but has also emphasized the advantage of cross
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: fertilization for the health of the species. Nature tells us
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: he says in the most emphatic manner that she abhors
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: perpetual self fertilization. Hildebrand, Hermon, Muller, Delpino and others have,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: with consummate patients of observation, further traced out the secrets
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: of nature in this relation, and the student may be
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: referred to Darcy Thompson's valuable edition of Muller's Fertilization of Flowers,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Sir John Lubbock's Flowers in Relation to Insects, the classic
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: works of Darwin, and p Nuff's hand Butched or Bloden Biology.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Reference must, however, also be made to Mihan's protest that
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: selfertilization is neither so rare nor so abhorrent, as is
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: generally believed. In a great number of cases, cross fertilization
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: by means of insects does occur in many. It must
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: occur in another by no means small set of flowering plants,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: usually with inconspicuous blossoms. The fertilizing gold dust is borne
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: by the wind and falls, like the golden shower on danae,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: upon adjacent flowers. In many hermaphrodite flowers, Again, selfertilization does
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: certainly take place in and some this is necessarily so indubitable.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Selfertilization occurs in the small, degenerate, unopening kleistogamus flowers of
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: some plants, such as species of balsam, dead nettal pansy,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: et cetera. These occur along with ordinary flowers, and curiously enough,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: are sometimes more fertile than they. Another authority says fertilization
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: is the fecondation of a plant by the application of
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the pollen to the stigma. In some cases, the pollen
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: simply drops upon the stigma, which is called selfertilization. In
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: most instances, however, it is blown by the wind or
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: carried by bees or moths or such like insects from
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: other flowers of the same species. This is what is
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: called cross fertilization. Darwin found that twenty heads of Dutch
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: clover left open to the visits of bees produced two thousand,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: two hundred ninety seeds. The same number defended from the
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: visit of the bees did not yield even one seed.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Plant life affords many curious and interesting instances of ingenious
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: devices arranged by nature for attracting to the flower the
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: insects needed to fertilize it. The bright colors of flowers
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: and the honey or sweet fluids contained within many flowers
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: being intended solely for this purpose. The shape and size
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: of the various parts of the flowers are arranged so
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: as to cause the bee or other insect first to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: brush against the receptacle containing the pollen, and then to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: brush the same off into the female parts of other flowers.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: The subject is extremely interesting and will well repay one
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: for studying it in detail in the textbooks on the subject,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Chapter five Sex in animal life. In animal life, as
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: in plant life, we find the male and female elements
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: of reproduction. In animals, the male element of reproduction is
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: called the spermatozoon and the female element of reproduction is
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: called the ovum. The spermatozoa plural of spermatozoon active moving
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: constituents of the male element of reproduction and consist of
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: a head, a rod shaped middle piece, and a long
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: hair like tail by the vibratile motion of which they
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: move in a spiral manner. They were formerly regarded as
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: parasites inhabiting the seminal fluid, but were finally discovered to
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: be the fecandating cell or male element of reproduction. They
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: are found in all animals, including man. The size of
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the spermatozoa varies in different animals. In man, they are
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: about one six hundredth of an inch in length. Their
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: peculiar movements resemble those of the tadpole, the hair like
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: tail manifesting constant motion from side to side, propelling the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: spermatozoon from one point to another. It is composed of protoplasm,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the substance which is the base of all physical life.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: The spermatozoa developed from a mother sperm cell by the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: progress of segmentation or subdivision, in a manner analogous to
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: that of the lowly forms of animal life. They dwell
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: in a gelatinous fluid which mingles with other fluids secreted
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: by the glands and which thus constitute the male seminal fluid.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Gettys gives the following information regarding the physiology of the spermatozoa.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: He says a few facts in regard to the physiology
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: of the sperm demand notice. A it is specialized as
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: a highly active cell. Its minimal size, the usual absence
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: of any encumbering nutritive material, the contractility of the tail,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: and the general shape all fitted for characteristic mobility. More
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: than one histologist has likened it to a free muscle
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: cell or to a flagellate monad B. Furthermore, the sperm
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: has very considerable power of persistent vitality. Not only does
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: it often remain long unexpelled in the male animal without
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: losing its functions, but it may retain its fertilizing power
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: after remaining for weeks or even months in the female organism.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: In the earthworm, the spermatozoa passed from from one worm
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: to another, not directly to the ova nor to female ducks,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: but to be stored up in special reservoirs or spermathiki.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: So it is with many animals. The spermatozoa received by
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the queen bee during her single impregnation are for a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: considerable period, even for three years, used in fertilizing successive
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: sets of worker and queen ova. Quite unique, however, is
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: the case of one of Sir John Lubbock's Queen Anne's,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: which laid fertile eggs thirteen years after the last sexual
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: union with a male. The spermatozoa had apparently persisted all
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: that time. Hence in cites the facts that a hen
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: will lay fertilized eggs eighteen days after the removal of
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the cock, and that in bats, spermatozoa may remain alive
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: a whole winter in the uterus of the female. In
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: most European bats, indeed, sexual union occurs in autumn, but
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the sperms are simply stored in the uterus for ovulation
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and fertilization do not take place till spring. In exceptional case,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: especially in young forms which were not mature in autumn,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: pairing occurs in spring. An exactly parallel condition is known
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: in some snakes. Thus, rolinet Notes, in regard to tropidinotice
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: by parinas that mature females are inseminated in the autumn
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: previous to the egg laying in June or July, but
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: in females laying for the first time, copulation probably occurs
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: in early spring. C Remarkable two and again suggestive of monads,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: is the power the sperms have of resisting great deviations
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: from the normal temperature. The presence of acids has usually
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: a paralyzing influence, but alkaline solutions have on the whole
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the opposite result. The ovum or female element of reproduction,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: is a small egg like cell, very small, which is
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: formed in the ovaries of the female and is afterward
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: passed downward through a duct. Ova are developed from time
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: to time and passed downward through the duck that they
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: may be fertilized by a spermatozoon or male element. Getties
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: gives the following information regarding the physiology of the ovum.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: He says, the ovum presents all the essential features of
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: any other animal cell. There is the cell substance, consisting
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: in part of genuine living matter or protoplasm. And there
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: is the nucleus or germinal vesicle, which plays such an
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: important part in the ripening, fertilizing, and subsequent division of
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the cell. Besides the living matter, there are simpler substances,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: especially in many cases a reserved capital of yolk nutriment
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: for the future embryo. The modern masters of microscopic technique
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: have detected many marvels in the egg cell into which
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: we cannot at present enter. But it is important to
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: recognize clearly that although the ovum is an ascent simple,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: being a single cell, it is not structureless like white
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of egg. About details, there is great diversity of opinion,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: but all are agreed that the ovum has organization. In
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: many instances e g. In the minute over ea of hydra,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: in the ovary of tubularia, or in the ovarian tubes
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: of insects, the ovum is but the surviving competitor among
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: a crowd of surrounding cells, which, to start with, were
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: all potential ova. This is an often forgotten chapter in
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the struggle for existence, the struggle between germ cells. There
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: is a struggle between potential ova. There is also enormous
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: elimination among the spermatozoa, even after they come to close
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: quarters with the ovum. Many are almost successful, but in
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: most cases only one fertilizes i e. Survives, and even
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: after the eggs begin to develop, there is often elimination
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: apart from enemies. Thus, it is stated that only about
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: a third of the eggs of the New Zealand lizard
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Sphenodon or Hateria ever hatch in the third place, and
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: this is the rarest form. The egg cell acquires a
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: store of food material from a special yolk gland, as
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: in many of the lower worms. Secondation or reproduction is
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: caused by the union of the male and female elements,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: the spermatozoon and the ovum. The former enters into and
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: is enclosed by the latter, and the process of the formation,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: development and evolution of the young life is begun. The
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: union of the two creative cells, the male and the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: female elements, forms a new and more complex cell, which
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: then develops and evolves into the perfect young of the
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: species to which the parents belong. In various ways and
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: by means of various methods and processes, the spermatozoon is
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: brought in contact with the ovum. The act of physical
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: union between the male and female of the higher form
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of animal life is called coitionion or copulation, and its
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: sole purpose is that of secondation and the reproduction of life.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: It is usually accompanied by a peculiar nervous spasmodic disturbance
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: which exhausts the participants to a greater or lesser extent.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: The spermatozoon comes in contact with the ovum and penetrates
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: the outer covering of the latter, the entrance of other
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: spermatozoa being then prevented by the immediate formation of a
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: thick membrane through which they cannot penetrate. Gettys gives the
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: following information regarding the physiology of secondation or fertilization. He
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: says there are various steps in the process, which is
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: often summed up in the one word fertilization. One there
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: is the process by which the spermatozoa are brought into
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: general proximity to the ova. In higher animals, this is
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: best termed insemination and is accomplished by copulation. Two there
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: is the approach of the spermatozoa to the ovum, but
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: of this little is known. Three there is fertilization in
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: the strict sense, the intimate and orderly union of the
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: two sex nuclei. The adaptations which secure that the sperms
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: shall reach the ova are very varied. Sometimes it seems
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: almost a matter of chance, for the sperms from adjacent
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: males may simply be washed into the female, as in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: sponges and bivalves, with the nutritive water currents. In other cases,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: especially well seen in most fishes, the female deposits her
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: unfertilized ova in the water. The male follows and covers
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: them with spermatozoa. Many may have watched from a bridge
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: the female salmon plowing along the gravelly river bed, depositing
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: her ova, careful to secure a suitable ground, yet not
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: disturbing the already laid eggs of her neighbors. Meanwhile, she
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: is attended by her frequently much smaller mate, who deposits
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: milt upon the ova in the frog. Again, the eggs
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: are fertilized externally by the male, just as they leave
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: the body of his embraced mate. Or it may be
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: that the sperms are lodged in special packets which are
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: taken up by the female in most of the newts,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: surrounded with one of the male arms in many cuttlefishes,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: or passed from one of the spider's palps to the
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: female aperture in the majority of animals e g. Insects
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and higher vertebrates, copulation occurs and the sperms pass from
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: the male directly to the female. Even then the history
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: is very varied. They may pass into special receptacles, as
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: in insects, to be used as occasion demands, or in
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: higher animals, they may, with persistent locomotive energy, work their
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: way up the female ducts. There they may soon meet
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: and fertilize ova which have been liberated from the ovary,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: or may persist, as we noticed, for a prolonged period,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: or may eventually perish. When the sperms have come in
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: any of these varied ways in close proximity to the ovum,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: there is every reason to believe that a strong asmodic
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: attraction is set up between the two kinds of elements.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: The spermatozoa, which seems so well to deserve Kulpha's epithet
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: of starved, appear to be powerfully drawn to the well
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: nourished ovum, and the latter frequently rises to meet the
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: sperm in a small attractive cone. Often, however, there is
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: an obstacle in the way of entrance, in the form
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: of the eggshell, which may be penetrable only at one
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: spot well called the micropile. Derwitz has made the interesting
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: observation that round the egg shells of the cockroach ova,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the sperms move in regular circles of ever varying orbit,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and points out that thus sooner or later a sperm
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: must hit upon the entrance. He showed that this was
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: a characteristic motion of these elements. On smooth spheres for
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: round empty egg shells, or on similar vesicles, they moved
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: in an equally orderly and systematic fashion. The persistence with
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: which the spermatozoa often forced their way to the ova
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: makes it impossible to doubt the reality of a strong
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: chemotactic attraction. One illustration may suffice. According to Dr Sidoni's
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: account of the impregnation in the rodefor Hydatina centa, the
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: spermatozoa of the male, which are injected into the body
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: cavity of the female, reached the totally enclosed eggs by
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: boring through the thin membrane at a point where the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: mature ova are situated, a process not known in any
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: other animals. The oval head of a spermatozo was seen
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: to attach itself to the membrane of the ovary, the
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: tail continued to make lashing movements. The head was gradually
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: forced through the membrane and the tail followed, the whole
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: process taking about ten minutes. In addition to the numerous
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: examples of the various methods and processes of fertilization mentioned
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: by Getty's as above quoted, we may mention a few
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: unusual examples. Among the most curious is the process of parthogenesis.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: In this process, which is the common method among certain
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: of the plant lice, the male and female copulate in
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the usual manner, and the female lays eggs, which in
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: time are hatched. But the young so hatched from the
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: eggs are not normal insects. They are neither male nor female,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: but are peculiar sexual creatures which may be called imperfect females.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: These imperfect females, instead of seeking fertilization from the male
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: and then laying eggs as did their mother, produce young
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: resembling themselves by a process of budding. These budded young
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: then bud forth a new generation, and so on until
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: nine generations are born. When a few perfect males and
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: females are produced, and the process begins anew in the
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: normal fashion. Some of the polyps a low animal form
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: resembling a plant, but fourth young, which then separate and
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: swim about as independent organisms instead of developing until they
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: resemble the parent polyp. However, these young, upon reaching maturity,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: are fertilized and lay eggs, which, when hatched, produce the
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: original form of polyp, resembling the grandparent, and so on
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the generations alternating. A curious state of affairs is noted
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: in the case of the Bulharzia, a parasitic trematode, the
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: male of which carries the female about with him in
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: a genicophoric canal composed of folds of skin. Similar to
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: this peculiar case is that of certain barnacles, in which
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the female carries around with her her male mate secreted
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: in a little pocket like contrivance. This mate is much
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: smaller than the female and is very different from the
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: latter in appearance, so much so, in fact, that it
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: took science a long time to determine that it was
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: not a parasite. In some cases, the female has been
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: found to carry several of these tiny male mates around
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: with her. Geddys gives the following additional information on this subject.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: He says, A not unfrequent mode of secondation is by
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: means of spermatophores or packets of spermatozoa. These may be
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: seen at times attached to the earthworm, or found within
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: the leech and snail. Even in newt spermatophores may be
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: formed and taken up as such by the females in
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: the spite of the spermatozoa are stored in a special
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: receptacle on the palp and hence hastily transferred to the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: fierce female. In cuttlefishes, this mode of impregnation is yet
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: more marked. One of the arms of the male, much
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: modified and laden with spermatophores, is thrust or in many
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: cases bodily discharged into the branchial cavity of the female,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: where it bursts. Such a discharged arm was, on first
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: discovery regarded as a parasite, and hence received the name
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: of hectocotylus. A curious aberration from the ordinary relations is
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: where two distinct individuals of a species of Fluke diploson
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: physically combine in almost lifelong union. In many cases, again
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: especially in bony fishes, there is a sexual attraction between
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: male and female, but without any copulation. The female, accompanied
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: by her mate, deposits ova, which he thereupon fertilizes with spermatozoa.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: A slightly more advanced stage is seen in the frog.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Fertilization is still outside the body of the mother, but
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the male embracing the female, liberates spermatozoa upon the eggs,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: just as these are laid. In the majority of cases, however,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: special organs for emitting and for receiving spermatozoa are developed,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: and cups population occurs. The male organ is often an
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: adaptation of some structure already existing, as in many crustaceans,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: where modified appendages form external canals for the seminal fluid.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: In skates and other gristly fishes, the remarkably complex copulatory organs,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: the so called claspers, are in close connection with the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: hind limb. The copulation may be quite external, as in
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: crayfishes et cetera, where the male seizing the female deposit
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: spermatozoa upon the already laid eggs. Oftener, however, it is internal,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and the intermittent organ is inserted into the genital aperture
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: of the female. True copulation may occur without the presence
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: of special organs, notably in the case of many birds,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: where the cloaca of the male is opposed to that
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: of the female. The spermatozoa forcibly expelled by the excited
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: male organs pass up the female ducts, probably in part
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: as the result of peristalsis, but chiefly at least by
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: theirs their own locomotive energy, and one of them may
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: eventually fertilize an ovum. In addition to the intermittent organ
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: and the lower portion of the female duct which receives
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: it during copulation, there may be auxiliary structures, such as
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  Speaker 1: true claspers, for retaining hold of the females. The limy
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  Speaker 1: cupid's dart or spiculomomoris of the snail is usually interpreted
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  Speaker 1: as a preliminary excitement. Chapter six. Sex in human life.
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  Speaker 1: There are two aspects of sex in human life. The first,
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  Speaker 1: the physical aspect, is merely a continuation of the thought
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  Speaker 1: phase of sex in the life of the animal kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and should concern itself solely with the reproduction of the species.
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  Speaker 1: The second, the vital, mental, moral, and spiritual, leads to
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  Speaker 1: planes of manifestation of which the animal world has no experience.
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  Speaker 1: Although some of its phases are indicated in the lives
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  Speaker 1: of the higher animals in the sense of a prophetical promise.
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  Speaker 1: Strange as it may appear to many, some of the
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  Speaker 1: moral and ethical features of sex in human life are
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  Speaker 1: seen to have their roots in the sex manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: the higher animal life. There is much in common between them.
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  Speaker 1: As Geddy says, it is with emotions that we have
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  Speaker 1: here most to do. And without raising the difficult question
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  Speaker 1: whether animals exhibit any emotions exactly analogous to those which
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  Speaker 1: in man are associated with the moral sense, religion, and
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  Speaker 1: the sublime, we accept the conclusion of Darwin, followed by
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  Speaker 1: Romaynes and others, that all other emotions which we ourselves
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  Speaker 1: experience are likewise recognizable in analogous expression in the higher animals.
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  Speaker 1: Those which are associated with sex and reproduction are indeed
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  Speaker 1: among the most patent love of mates, love of offspring, lust, jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: family affection, social sympathies are undeniable. The love of mates,
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  Speaker 1: which in the earliest beginning of the lower life forms
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  Speaker 1: is evidenced only by an instinctive attraction, is then seen
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  Speaker 1: to gradually evolve into something which may be called affection,
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  Speaker 1: and from thence into a steadily ascending scale of love,
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  Speaker 1: until in the highest human development it is evidenced by
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: a mental and emotional condition far above anything witnessed among
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  Speaker 1: the lower forms of life. Even far down in the
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  Speaker 1: scale of life, we may see evidences of the mutual
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  Speaker 1: attraction between mates. Even among the insects, there may be
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  Speaker 1: seen that which is truly called courtship, as distinguished from
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  Speaker 1: elementary sexual acts. Gedi says, there may even be cooperation
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  Speaker 1: in work, as in the beatles, such as the atuches,
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  Speaker 1: where the two sexes pursue their somewhat disinterested labors together.
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  Speaker 1: The male and female of another beetle inhabit the same cavity,
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  Speaker 1: and the virtuous matron is said greatly to resent the
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  Speaker 1: intrusion of another male. Jealousy plays a prominent part in
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  Speaker 1: the life of the higher animals and even the lower
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  Speaker 1: forms manifested in some cases, as for instance, among the fishes,
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  Speaker 1: the stickleback battles with his rivals and finally leads his
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  Speaker 1: mate to the nest. He is built of twigs and weeds,
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  Speaker 1: and after going through the motions of a wild love dance,
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  Speaker 1: pushes her in the nest, and thereafter guards her jealously
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  Speaker 1: from other males. The battles between rival males of the
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: salmon family are terrific. Coquetry and jealousy have been noticed
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  Speaker 1: even among the insects. Snakes manifest great jealousy and love
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  Speaker 1: of the company of their mates. If a cobra is killed,
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  Speaker 1: its mate often travels to the scene of its death
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  Speaker 1: and remains there disconsolate for many days. Among birds there
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: are found all the manifestations of courtship, jealousy, and love
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  Speaker 1: of mates. The dove affords a striking illustration. Some birds
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  Speaker 1: mate for life and often mourn away their lives if
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  Speaker 1: the mate is killed. Geddy, says Mantegaza, has written a
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  Speaker 1: work entitled The Physiology of Love, in which he expounds
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  Speaker 1: the optimistic doctrine that love is the universal dynamic. And
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: from this Bookner quotes the sentence that the whole of
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  Speaker 1: nature is one hymn of love. If the last word
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  Speaker 1: be used very widely, this often repeated utterance has more
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  Speaker 1: than poetic significance. But even in the most literal sense,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: there is much truth in it. Since so many animals
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: are at one in a common habit of serenading their mates.
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  Speaker 1: The chirping of insects, the croaking of frogs, the calls
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: of mammals, the song of birds illustrate both the bathos
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: and glory of the love chorus. The works of Darwin
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and others have made us familiar with the numerous ways,
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  Speaker 1: both gentle and violent, in which mammals will one another,
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  Speaker 1: the display of decorations in which many male birds indulge,
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  Speaker 1: the amatory dances of others, the love lights of glow insects,
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  Speaker 1: the joyous tournaments or furious duels of rival suitors, the
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  Speaker 1: choice which not a few females seem to exhibit, and
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: the like show how a process, at first crude enough,
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  Speaker 1: becomes enhanced by appeals to more than merely sexual appetite.
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  Speaker 1: But it is hardly necessary now to argue seriously in
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  Speaker 1: support of theetis that love in the sense of sexual sympathy,
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  Speaker 1: psychical as well as physical, exists among animals in many
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  Speaker 1: degrees of evolution. Our comparative psychology has been too much
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  Speaker 1: influenced by our intellectual superiority. But while this no doubt
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: has its correspondingly increased possibilities of emotional range, it does
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: not necessarily imply a corresponding emotional intensity and we have
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  Speaker 1: no means of measuring, much less limiting that glow of
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: organic emotion which so manifestly flushes the organism with color
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  Speaker 1: and floods the world with song. Who knows whether the
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  Speaker 1: song bird be not beside the man, what the child
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: musician is to the ordinary dullness of our daily toil
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  Speaker 1: and thought. The fact to be insisted upon is this,
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  Speaker 1: that the vague sexual attraction of the lowest organisms has
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: been evolved into a definite reproductive impulse, into a desire
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: often predominating over even that of self preservation. That this,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: again enhanced by more and more subtle psychical additions, passes
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  Speaker 1: by a gentle gradient into the love of the highest
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: animals and of the average human individual. The love of offspring,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: which many seem to consider a distinctively human characteristic, has
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  Speaker 1: its roots in the mental and emotional life of the
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: lower forms of life. Even as far down the scale
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: as the worms, We find evidences of the offspring clinging
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: around the mother animal, and often protected by the latter
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: in one way or another. Some of the lowly forms
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: of life carry their young around with them in brew
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: chambers or pouch like contrivances. The clepsign A small freshwater
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: leech always carries its young around with it attached to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: the surface of its body. The marine leech, known as
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: the skate sucker, guards faithfully for several weeks its eggs,
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  Speaker 1: which it has deposited in an old shell or under
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  Speaker 1: a stone. Some of the spiders carry their eggs around
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: with them in tiny sacks until they are hatched. Among
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  Speaker 1: the shell fish, there are many species in which the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: young return to the shell of their mother after being hatched.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: The mother crayfish give shelter to her young until they
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: are able to care for themselves. The attention and care
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: given to young bees and ants is well known. Some
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: plantli likes. Mothers are as solicitous for the welfare of
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: their young as is the mother hen. Among the mammals,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: the young are carefully watched and guarded in a manner
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: strikingly humanlike. In many cases among the higher mammals, it
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: is quite easy and natural to apply the term parental
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: love to the interest manifested by the mother and father
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: toward their offspring. Many authorities hold that altruistic emotions and feelings,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the sympathies and love for others, had their rise in
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: the love of the lower animals for their mates and
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: their young. This becoming more highly developed in the human being,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: reached out to include the love for more distant relatives
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: than the love for friends, then the community, love for
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  Speaker 1: the tribe, then the love for the nation, and finally
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: the love for all mankind and the human brotherhood, which
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  Speaker 1: in the future will extend to the love for all
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: living things. Under this theory, all the altruistic and unselfish emotions, sympathies,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: and fellow feelings arose from the sexual instinct and love
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: of the lower animal for his mate. In Young Geddy
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: says of this, the optimism which finds an animal life
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: only one hymn of love is inaccurate, like the pessimism,
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  Speaker 1: which sees throughout nothing but selfishness. Lytra Leconti and some
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: others less definitely have more reasonably recognized the coexistence of
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: twin streams of egoism and altruism, which often merge for
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: a space without losing their distinctness, and are traceable to
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: a common origin in the simplest forms of life. In
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: the hunger and reproductive attractions of the lowest organisms, the
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: self regarding and other regarding activities of the higher find
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: their starting point, though some vague consciousness is perhaps coexistent
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: with life itself, we can only speak with confidence of
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  Speaker 1: psychical egoism and altruth after a central nervous system has
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  Speaker 1: been definitely established. At the same time, the activities of
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: even the lowest organisms are often distinctly referable to either category.
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  Speaker 1: A simple organism which merely feeds and grows and liberates
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  Speaker 1: superfluous portions of its substance to start new existences is
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: plainly living an egoistic and individualistic life. But whenever we
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: find the occurrence of close association with another form, we
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: find the first rude hints of love. It may still
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: be almost wholly in organic hunger which prompts the union,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: but it is the beginning of life, not wholly individualistic,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: hardly distinguishable. At the outset, the primitive hunger and love
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: become the starting points of divergent lines of egoistic and
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: altruistic emotion and activity. The differentiation of separate sexes, the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: production of offspring which remain associated with the parents, the
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  Speaker 1: occurrence of genuine pairing beyond the limits of the sexual period,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: the establishment of distinct families with uns unmistakable affection between parents,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: offspring and relatives, and lastly, the occurrence of animal societies
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: wider than the family, mark important steps in the evolution
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: of both egoism and altruism. There are two divergent lines
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: of emotional and practical activity, hunger self regarding egoism on
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: the one hand, love other regarding altruism on the other.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: These find a basal unity in the primitively close association
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: between hunger and love, between nutritive and reproductive needs. Each
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: plane of ascent marks a widening and ennobling of the activities,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: but each has its corresponding bathos when either side unduly
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: preponderates over the other. The actual path of progress is
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: represented by action and reaction between the two complementary functions,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: the mingling becoming more and more intricate. Sexual attraction ceases
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  Speaker 1: to be wholly selfish. Hunger may be overcome by love.
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  Speaker 1: Love of mates is enhanced by love for all offspring.
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  Speaker 1: Love for offspring broadens out into love of kindred. Finally,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: the ideal before us is a more harmonious blending of
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  Speaker 1: the two streams. It is not our intention to speak
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  Speaker 1: of the physiology of sex and human life in this book.
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  Speaker 1: There are many good books written on the subject, which
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  Speaker 1: indeed requires a large book to consider in detail. Nor
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  Speaker 1: shall we discuss the physical side of the love of
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  Speaker 1: man and woman in this book, except in the matter
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: of pointing out certain grave errors into which the race
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: has fallen, the prostitution of the creative function to the
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: gratification of sensual lust. We shall speak of this in
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  Speaker 1: plain words in the succeeding chapters. From thence we shall
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: pass on to a brief consideration of the higher phases
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: of sex in human life. Sex exists for the human
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: being not only on the plane of the physical, but
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: also on the vital, mental, and spiritual plane. Moreover, there
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: is possible for the human being the conservation and transmutation
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  Speaker 1: of the creative as energy of the sexual organism. Of
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  Speaker 1: this too, shall we speak. The purpose of this book
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  Speaker 1: is to show the evolution of sex from the inorganic
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: life on to the lower forms of organic life, thence
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  Speaker 1: onward to the human life, and then on to the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: plane of the superman and superwoman. Sex is like the
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: sacred lotus of Oriental lands, its roots buried in the
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: muddy slime of the river bed, thence rising through the
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: various currents of the river water until finally the air
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: is reached. When low, the plant blossoms forth in luxuriant purity,
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  Speaker 1: a type and symbol of the highest spiritual development. Sex
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: has its roots in the mud of material life, it
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: rises through the flowing waters of mentality, and finally blossoms
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  Speaker 1: in the clear air of the spiritual nature, pure, sacred, divine.
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  Speaker 1: We ask all to read carefully and ponder deeply on
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: what we shall now have to say regarding sex in
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  Speaker 1: Human Life. Chapter seven, The Physical Function of Sex. The student,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: casting aside all preconceived notions and all ideas implanted in
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  Speaker 1: his mind by custom and general public opinion, and examining
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: the records of Nature as written in her Great Book
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: of Creation, can make no mistake regarding the true function
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: of sex. He will see all through nature plainly written
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: the universal law that sex exists purely and solely for
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: the purpose of creation, procreation, and reproduction. If he be
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  Speaker 1: candid enough to acknowledge this to himself, he will see
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: that all other uses and employment of sex must be abnormal, perverted,
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  Speaker 1: and unnatural. It is true that the human race has
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: acquired the habit of employing the physical function of sex
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: for the purpose of sensual gratification alone, reproduction not being
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: desired or intended in the majority of cases. This habit,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: extending over thousands of years and being unquestioned by the
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: majority of the race, has led many persons to believe
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: and hold that such practices were perfectly natural and in
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: full accord with nature. But a full study of Nature's ways, plans,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and methods will show any fair minded and unprejudiced person
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  Speaker 1: that the habits and practices of the human race regarding
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: the function of sex are unnatural and perverted, and have
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  Speaker 1: no basis in any of Nature's fundamental laws. All through
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: the various kingdoms of life, we may see that sex
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: is used solely in the direction of creation, procreation, and reproduction.
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  Speaker 1: It is the function whereby nature keeps up her supply
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  Speaker 1: of living forms and things. She bends every effort towards
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the exercise of this function, and often subordinates even the
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: life of the parent to the function of bringing forth
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  Speaker 1: the new generation. So carefully does she regulate the instinctive
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: desires that the females of the animal kingdom will refuse
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: to cohabit except at the proper seasons when procreation is possible.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: At all other seasons, the females will vigorously oppose the males,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: and the latter seemingly recognize the situation and allow themselves
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: to be driven away. The study of the processes of
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: sex in o all fields of the great kingdom of
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: life will show conclusively that the one only, in sole
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: purpose of sex is that of creation, procreation, and reproduction.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: But argue some that is all very well for the animals,
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  Speaker 1: but man is greater than the animals and has improved
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  Speaker 1: on their habits. Is man no more than a beast
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: to be governed by their habits and customs? This absurd
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: argument is accepted as valid by many men who seek
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: not reasons but excuses for the practices and habits of life.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: The truth, as recognized by all biologists, is that man
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: in the primitive state followed the same laws and habits
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: as that of all the rest of the animal kingdom,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: and refrain from cohabitation, except at certain periods when the
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: female was capable of conception. In some savage tribes the
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: customs still exists, and the female will vigorously drive away
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: the insistent male at other times. In this she is
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: supported by the public opinion of the tribe, and others
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: will rally to her defense if necessary, and so it
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: was with primitive man. Undoubtedly the desire and will of
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: the female prevailed, and these desires and this will were
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: operated according to natural instinctive lines. But when mankind advanced
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: to the stage in which woman was held not as
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: an equal and co worker, but as a serf and slave,
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: man began to impose his passion upon her at unseasonable
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: as well as at seasonable times, and the prevailing unnatural
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: practices of the race resulted in no other animal except
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: man has this unnatural practice prevailed. Some writers have accepted
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: certain varieties of the goat which are said to have
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: become perverted in this respect, but certain it is that
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: the general varieties of animals still adhere to the instinctive
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: laws and principles of nature in this respect. As for
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: man improving on the animals, the improvement is along the
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: same lines as the other improvements which led to the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: manufacture of intoxicating liquors and the use thereof the use
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: of drugs and narcotics. The barbarous social customs which have
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: sprung up, and which make the misery of the many
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: the price of the success of the few. Man has
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: improved many things, but some of his improvements have been
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. And so it is with the
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: case in point. To those who arise and revolt at
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  Speaker 1: this statement, we would put the plain question, if the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: physical sex functions are not intended for the sole purpose
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: of reproduction and procreation, for what purpose are they intended.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: Some will answer that they are intended for pleasurable gratification,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: manifestation of love, et cetera, et cetera, But this only
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: carries the subject back another step. Biologists teach that nature
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: has made all of the necessary functions more or less pleasurable, gratifying,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: and satisfying, in order that the individual living things may
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: perform the acts of these functions. Eating is pleasurable, but
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: hunger and appetite were certainly not devised merely to give pleasure.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: They were made pleasurable so that the living things things
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: would be impelled to gratify them instinctively, and thus carry
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: out Nature's great purpose of sustaining her living things. But
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: men have cultivated the sense of taste and appetite until
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: many individuals are abnormal in this respect. They have become
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: perverts and degenerates in regard to appetite and taste. The
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: ancient feasts in which the gluttons would take emetics to
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: relieve their swollen stomachs of their contents, only that they
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: might then proceed to refill them with fresh delicacies give
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: us a striking example of this fact, and some modern
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: Germans almost equal their ancient brethren in this respect. The
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  Speaker 1: taste for drink gives us another example of the perversion
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  Speaker 1: of a natural instinct, and so it has become. With
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  Speaker 1: the function of sex, intended by nature solely for the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of creation, procreation and reproduction, Men have so perverted
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  Speaker 1: and degenerated the natural intent that, like the taste and appetites,
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  Speaker 1: they have dragged the sex function down into the dust.
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  Speaker 1: That which should be regarded as one of the highest
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: of nature's functions and processes has been made the subject
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  Speaker 1: of vile jests and abnormal practices. That function, which lies
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: at the very root and beginning of life, has become
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  Speaker 1: the subject and object of abnormal, unnatural, and degenerate practices,
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  Speaker 1: which shock any mind which looks upon nature in all
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  Speaker 1: her manifestations, as essentially pure. The instinctive realization of this
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  Speaker 1: fact has caused the race to regard sex in itself
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  Speaker 1: as impure. It is not sex that is impure, but
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  Speaker 1: the prostitution and perversion of her natural functions have slimed
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  Speaker 1: over her primitive purity. If sex were confined to her
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  Speaker 1: natural functions, the race would regard the subject of sexuality
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  Speaker 1: in an entirely different light. It would then occupy the
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  Speaker 1: high place which nature intended for it. The fount of
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: life would be kept pure and would be the subject
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  Speaker 1: of veneration. But so befouled have become the waters of
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  Speaker 1: the fount, owing to the unnatural practices of the majority
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  Speaker 1: of the race, that many shudder at the mention of
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  Speaker 1: its name and avoid it as unclean and impure. The
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  Speaker 1: race does not realize the cause of this strange degradation
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  Speaker 1: of the subject of sex, but the intuitive and instinctive
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  Speaker 1: mentality of men and women recognizes the unnatural and perverted
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  Speaker 1: state of the subject, and naturally recoils from its consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Where the natural and normal conditions exist in today, then
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  Speaker 1: sex in human life would be regarded as as pure
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  Speaker 1: and worthy as is sex in the life of the plants.
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  Speaker 1: So perverted has become the popular idea of sex, owing
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  Speaker 1: to the unnatural conditions prevailing that the mere mention of
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: the word is taboo in polite circles. Could this arise
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  Speaker 1: from natural use of the function? Is there anything impure
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  Speaker 1: in the thought of the birth of the child and
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  Speaker 1: the reproduction of the species. Is it not apparent that
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  Speaker 1: the shame, odium and disgust attached to the subject arise
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  Speaker 1: from the instinctive knowledge that the function of sex has
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: become perverted, unnatural, degenerate, and hence ignoble and disgusting. It
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  Speaker 1: will require but the general realization of the facts which
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  Speaker 1: we have just stated, to bring about a change of
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  Speaker 1: conditions or resumption of the normal and natural. Just as
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  Speaker 1: are other perversions and abuses of the sexual nature highly condemned, avoided,
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  Speaker 1: and punished by all right thinking people, so would this
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  Speaker 1: particular common unnatural practice be regarded as a perversion. Once
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: the fact was realized that it is unnatural. Man instinctively
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: shrinks from anything unnatural. There is an intuition which warns
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  Speaker 1: him off forbidden ground. Man's intuition in this particular instance
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  Speaker 1: has been diverted, owing to the perverted habit having been
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  Speaker 1: accepted by the race as second nature. Man feels the
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  Speaker 1: repugnance arising from intuition but not understanding the matter, he
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: evinces it towards the subject of sex in general, treating
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  Speaker 1: it as impure and unworthy, instead of raising it up
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  Speaker 1: to its proper place of purity, in condemning only the
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: perversions of its principles. Once regarded as unnatural, the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: promiscuous habit of cohabitation for the mere purpose of self
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  Speaker 1: vitual gratification will be placed in the same category as
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  Speaker 1: the other unnatural manifestations of sex, which cause a blush
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  Speaker 1: of shame to mantle the cheeks of every decent person
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  Speaker 1: at the mere mention or thought thereof, So unspeakably vile
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: are they? All that is needed is the realization of
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  Speaker 1: the truth regarding the matter. The instinct and intuition of
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: the race will do the rest and strange and incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Though this may seem to those who have not noticed
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  Speaker 1: the undercurrents of public thought, the day is not far
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  Speaker 1: distant when the race will see this thing in its
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  Speaker 1: proper light. Many indications of this are even now apparent.
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  Speaker 1: There are many straws showing which way the wind is
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  Speaker 1: beginning to blow. In conclusion, as in the beginning, ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself the vital question if the physical sex functions were
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  Speaker 1: not intended for the sole purpose of reproduction and procreation?
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  Speaker 1: For what purpose were they intended? Carry this query around
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  Speaker 1: with you for a while, and you will begin to
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  Speaker 1: see a new light on this subject. Chapter eight Satirism.
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  Speaker 1: That Sadder of classical mythology was a strange creature, half
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  Speaker 1: goat and half man, with the body and head of
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  Speaker 1: a man, the head bearing a pair of rudimentary horns,
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  Speaker 1: the legs and feet being goat like and covered with thick,
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  Speaker 1: coarse hair. The Sadder was believed to dwell in caves
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  Speaker 1: and to roam about in the forest, seeking to capture
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  Speaker 1: and gain the affections of the nymphs. The ancient Sadder
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  Speaker 1: and his latter day prototype are regarded as the embodiment
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  Speaker 1: of all that is lascivious, lewde, wanton, and lustful. He
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  Speaker 1: is always pictured with a brutal, sensual face and lude
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  Speaker 1: leering eyes. His short horns, thick thighs, hairy legs, and
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: cloven hoofs give to him a most repulsive appearance, and
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: the suggestion of his perverted nature is apparent at first glance.
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  Speaker 1: The identification of the Sadder with the goat arose from
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  Speaker 1: the belief that the latter animal was of a gross sensual,
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  Speaker 1: lude and lascivious nature, being in fact the only animal
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  Speaker 1: the male, which forced coition upon the female at unnatural seasons.
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  Speaker 1: The goat, in ancient symbolism was always regarded as the
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of perverted and degenerate lust, and this because this
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  Speaker 1: particular beast had perverted sexual habits which had only in
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: man an analogous example. Today, the term sadder is often
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  Speaker 1: used to designate a man whose sex nature has become
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  Speaker 1: perverted until he has lost all sense of the natural
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  Speaker 1: functions thereof, and who lives for the purpose of indulging
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  Speaker 1: in lustful sensations and lude experiences. And it is in
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  Speaker 1: this sense that we shall use the term, although applying
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  Speaker 1: it to some individuals who would indignantly deny its fitness
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  Speaker 1: in their case. If the indulgence of the sex functions
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  Speaker 1: for the mere purpose of gratifying lustful sensations and lude
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  Speaker 1: appetites be a mark of the sadder, then how many
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: men of today are sadders? How many men are using
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  Speaker 1: their sex functions as nature intended them to do, that is,
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  Speaker 1: solely for the purpose intent and willingness to procreate and
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  Speaker 1: reproduce their kind in response to the willing desire of
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  Speaker 1: their mates, and at only the appropriate seasons indicated by nature.
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  Speaker 1: And on the other hand, how many men not only
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  Speaker 1: are not willing to comply with the requirements of nature
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  Speaker 1: as above stated, but actually strive to avoid her dictates,
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  Speaker 1: and who prostitute their sex functions for the gratification of
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  Speaker 1: their lewd, lustful appetites at unseasonable times, and often at
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  Speaker 1: periods in which every natural instinct revolts At the idea,
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  Speaker 1: how many men are sadders and how few are really men?
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  Speaker 1: All men who force their sex nature upon women, whether
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  Speaker 1: wives or mistresses, for the purpose of mere sensual gratification,
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  Speaker 1: or accept in response to the natural desire of the woman,
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  Speaker 1: or with an unwillingness to reproduce their kind, or during
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  Speaker 1: the period of pregnancy of the woman, All these men
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  Speaker 1: are manifesting the unnatural, perverted, degenerate actions of the sadder.
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  Speaker 1: It is true that the majority of men act the
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: sadder in ignorance, believing that what they do is according
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: to nature and is right and proper for dividing that
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: the rites of wedlock have been celebrated, but the act
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: remains the same Nevertheless, so long as it is persisted
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: in and continued, the mark of the sadder is branded
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  Speaker 1: upon the brows of the majority of men and women
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  Speaker 1: are made the serfs, slaves, and instruments of sensual gratification
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  Speaker 1: by these human beings bearing the characteristics of the goat.
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  Speaker 1: In order to see the enormity of the thing, in
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: order to realize what the consequences are, it is only
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  Speaker 1: necessary to use the imagination and picture the world as
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  Speaker 1: it would be were natural and normal conditions to prevail.
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  Speaker 1: Let us try to imagine what the world would be
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  Speaker 1: if men use their sex functions solely for the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of procreation and reproduction instead of for sensual gratification and
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: lute sensation. In the first place, that social evil would disappear,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: and with it the horrible white slave traffic, which is
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: the burning shame and disgrace of our modern civilization. No
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: more would young girls be ruined to gratify the lust
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: of villains and then either driven or actually sold into
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: a life of shame. No more would the red light
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  Speaker 1: districts spread their blood upon the maps of our cities
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: and towns. No more would the vile resorts flourish in
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: which the bodies and souls of men and women are
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: dragged down to disease and death. No more would unnameable
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: vile diseases fester and eat out the bodies of human beings,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: rendering the temple of the spirit of vile, charnel house
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: and cesspool. No more would our sons and daughters be
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: offered up as a sacrifice to the moloch of lust.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: With the disappearance of the social evil, the crime of
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: intemperance would largely diminish. All students of the subject are
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  Speaker 1: aware that the abuse of sex is one of the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: most potent causes of intemperance. Wherever lust reigns, there does
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: the daemon of intemperance fatten the brothel reeks with the
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: fumes of liquor. The libertine plies his victim with liquor
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: in order to cloud her reason and befuddle her judgment.
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  Speaker 1: The orgy of lust and lewdness is always begun with
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  Speaker 1: the drinking of life. Destroy the unnatural use of the
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  Speaker 1: sex function, and you will have driven a dart into
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  Speaker 1: the very heart of the drink evil. Walk through the
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: red light districts, the levies, the segregated district of any
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  Speaker 1: large city, and see what a foul, unwholesome, unnatural thing
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: it all is. With this unnatural and perverted use of
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: the sex function comes an instinctive sense of evil and
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  Speaker 1: shame that causes men to throw aside all restraint and
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  Speaker 1: to make themselves more bestial than the beasts, on the
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: principle that one may as well be killed for stealing
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: a sheep as a lamb, or that one may as
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: well go the full length. The women who fall into
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: the evil often seem to realize their degradation, and throwing
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: aside all self respect and self restraint, sink to the depths.
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  Speaker 1: There is the instinctive recognition of the human soul that
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: the thing is wrong at its very heart that develops
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  Speaker 1: the character of the sadder when one enters upon the
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: wrong path. The newspaper recital of some of the great scandals,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: as for instance, the murder case in and which a
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: certain young millionaire was tried for the killing of a
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: wealthy clubman, reveals the extent to which the indulgence of
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: the sex functions in an unnatural manner can be carried.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Lustful vice is made of fine art. Every device possible
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: to the perverted intellect is employed to appeal to the
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: jaded imaginations and desires of the libertines. Things unspeakable and unprintable, yes,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: actually unthinkable to the sane and normal person, result as
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: a logical sequence from the original perversion. The scandalous reports
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: which break into public notice from the resorts of some
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: of the wealthier society men are almost unbelievable. The unnatural
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: and insane excesses of ancient Babylon, Sodom and Gamara, Greece
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and Rome are duplicated by the modern Babylons, and unless checked,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: the ulcerous and cancerous moral contagion will spread and will
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: in the end bring down our civilization in ruins, just
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: as it has the civilizations of the past. For it
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: will be noticed on History's pages that this x moral
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: degeneracy always preceded the actual degeneracy and final downfall of
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: the great nations of the past. But many of you
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: will say, all this is true, but it refers only
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: to the sexual excesses and immoralities perpetrated out of the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: wedded state. That in the married state there can be
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: no immorality? Is this true? Stop and ask yourself the question,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: how many married men are there who lead the natural
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: normal sex life, who use the sex functions only for
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: the purpose that nature plainly intended. How many men are
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: there who allow their wives the real ownership of their
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: own bodies, and who refrain from forcing their unnatural attentions
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: upon their mates in a way which every female animal
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: except the goat would indignantly resent and repel. How many
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: men are there who regard their wives as their real,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: mental and spiritual mates instead of mere physical organisms for
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: the gratification of their the men's lust for sensation and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: lascivious experience. How many men are there who are fathers
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: in the true sense of the word, and who seek
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: to strive for and look forward to bringing children into
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: the world as nature intended, well born, welcome, planned for,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: and loved, instead of as the result of accidents arising
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  Speaker 1: from the unnatural practice of prostituting the wife for the
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: gratification of the husband's lust. These are hard questions, but
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: they must be answered at the judgment bar of the
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  Speaker 1: soul of Each Each must be his own judge under
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the law. Each must pay the price, but each has
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to reform and live the natural normal life
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: that alone can bring health, happiness, and peace. It may
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: be objected to that we have placed the blame of
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: this perversion of sex upon man alone and have said
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  Speaker 1: nothing about the woman. We are aware of this, and
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: have purposely placed the blame where we think it belongs. Woman,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: in the free state, not dependent upon man for her support, happiness,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: and right to live, would be in a position to
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: dictate to man terms of relationship in accordance with the
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: instincts of her own inner nature. Economically independent of man,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: she could and would dictate her own terms, and a
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: mighty change would result. But for ages, she has occupied
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: the position of a serf and a dependent, a state
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: from which she is now slowly emerging. She has been
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: taught that wives should submit themselves unto their husbands as
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: a religious duty. From the pulpit. She has been taught
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: that it was God's will that she should so do.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing has been said to her of her right to herself.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: The husband had his rights, which she has been taught
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: to believe were the result of natural conditions. She has
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: had no opportunity to live her own life in her
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: own way. She has been driven to marriage as the
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: woman's only profession, and was led to believe that the
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: words of wedlock. Once uttered, there could be no immorality
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: in the wedded state. Naturally, she has stifled the instinctive
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: and intuitive revolt of her soul, and has habituated herself
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: to the ordinary conditions. And the man himself has many excuses.
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  Speaker 1: He does not understand the woman's nature or instincts. He
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: believes in his rights for such they are held to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: be under divine and human laws, and he insists upon
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: them and deems the woman unloving if she demurs. The
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: public has been with him, and on all sides he
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: is supported in his ingrained notions. Moreover, the influence of
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: heredity is manifest in his case. Many generations of children
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: have been brought into the world under accidental conditions, and
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: in response not to the natural promptings of the two sexes,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: well made and under the proper conditions, but to the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: mere selfish desire for sensation and gratification on the part
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  Speaker 1: of the male parent. And it would be strange if
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: the influences so transmitted through the many generations from father
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: to son should not be powerful enough to lead man
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: away from the natural path and normal practice. There are
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: two sources from which the reform must come. For it
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: will come either in our own civilization or that which
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: will succeed it. It is in the line of evolution,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: and the race is intuitively reaching for it through its
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: highest evolved individuals. The first of these sources is the
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: education of men to the realization of nature's true intent
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: and purpose in the sex function. When the present conditions
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: are seen to be unnatural, an effort will be made
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: to avoid them in public opinion will begin to remold itself.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: The second source is the emancipation of women from control
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: and mastery by man. When woman attains her freedom and
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: realizes that she has a right to her own body,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: she too will study nature's plans and purposes, and will
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: refuse to live unnaturally and abnormally. She will assert the
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: natural right of refusal and choice, just as the female
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: animal does. She will refuse to submit for the mere
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: purpose of gratification of the male's inordinate desires and appetites.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: And in the end it will be seen that this
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: second source of reform, this assertion of woman's right to
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: herself and her sex, will be the principal cause of
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: the ultimate reform and revolution. Along these lines, the female
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: is the original sex. The male was an after product
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: and in the female is the only hope for the
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: return to natural conditions of sex relationship, and the change
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: will come. It must come. Nature is slow to wrath,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: but inexorable in her punishments. She will destroy the race
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: which defies her edicts, and will build up a new
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: one in accordance with her true plans. The swing of
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: the cyclic pendulum is now beginning its return. Nature is
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: beginning to reassert herself. Chapter nine, Higher Phases of Sex.
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  Speaker 1: In the preceding chapter, we stated the true and only
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: function of sex on the physical plane, namely, the procreation
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: and reproduction of the species. But we did not mean
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: to imply that this particular plane was the only one
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: upon which the sex principle manifests. On the contrary, sex
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: manifest upon every plane of life, and being in countless
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: variety of forms of expression. But upon whatever plane it
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: may manifest, the principle of creative activity generation or regeneration,
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  Speaker 1: production or reproduction, creation or recreation is present and active.
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  Speaker 1: There are many other purposes than that of the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of young for which the male and female sex activities meet, combine, commingle,
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  Speaker 1: and unite. On the vital, mental and spiritual planes. The
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  Speaker 1: union of the two elements of sex occurs with the
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  Speaker 1: result of calling into being new activities, elements, and manifestations. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: those who, seeing the perverted conditions connected with the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: sex relations in our civilization, pronounce all sex impure, and
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  Speaker 1: who lead the lives of ascetics, and who avoid the
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  Speaker 1: company of the other sex, make a great mistake. The
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  Speaker 1: man and the woman have much to give to and
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  Speaker 1: receive from each other. Many other planes of union than
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  Speaker 1: that ordinarily recognized. In the first place, there is unquestionably
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  Speaker 1: existent the peculiar vital force or energy, generally called vital magnetism,
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  Speaker 1: which has its own features and phases of sex. It
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  Speaker 1: is most difficult to describe the nature of vital magnetism,
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  Speaker 1: but its presence may be realized from actual experience and observation.
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  Speaker 1: It is a fact known to all occultists that each
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  Speaker 1: person has his or her individual personal atmosphere or magnetism,
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  Speaker 1: which affects those coming in contact with the person. Some
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  Speaker 1: persons depress those with whom they come in contact, while
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  Speaker 1: others stimulate them. Some have a tendency to weaken physically
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  Speaker 1: those around them, while some are so full of vitality
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  Speaker 1: that others actually draw upon the surplus stock and absorb
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  Speaker 1: the vital energy of such persons. There are vital vampires
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  Speaker 1: as well as vital radiators. The phenomena of vital magnetism
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  Speaker 1: are well known to those who have made a general
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  Speaker 1: study of the subject, and we shall not attempt to
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  Speaker 1: go into the matter at length in this place. It
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  Speaker 1: is not so well known, however, that there is a
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  Speaker 1: particular phase of this vital magnetism which has much to
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  Speaker 1: do with the relations of the two sexes. This may
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  Speaker 1: be called sex magnetism, and its poles are found in
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  Speaker 1: the opposite sexes, the male being the positive and the
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  Speaker 1: female the negative. It is this activity of the sex
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  Speaker 1: magnetism that has much to do with drawing together the
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  Speaker 1: two sexes. Each sex feels the desire to participate in
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  Speaker 1: the magnetism of the opposite sex. The individual magnetism of persons,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: of course, varying in their degree of attraction to persons
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  Speaker 1: of the opposite sex. There are many men and women
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  Speaker 1: who do not possess particularly attractive features, form, or manner,
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: who nevertheless attract the other sex to them in a
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: manner astonishing to those not in the secret. There have
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: been men, such as the celebrated bigamists of police history,
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: who have seemed to attract women as the flame does
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: the moth. And there have been women who have exerted
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: a strong attraction over nearly all men who came into
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: their circle of infat luence. Nearly every reader of these
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  Speaker 1: lines will recall cases of this kind in his own
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  Speaker 1: acquaintance or from his general experience. While this sex magnetism
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  Speaker 1: in such exceptional instances may work harm it is also
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  Speaker 1: a fact that it exerts a strong influence for good
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  Speaker 1: in the majority of cases in which its effects are
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  Speaker 1: not neutralized by sexual excesses on the physical plane, such
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  Speaker 1: as we have indicated in our preceding chapter. The union
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  Speaker 1: and combination of the two currents of sex magnetism of
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  Speaker 1: persons of the opposite sexes who are harmonious and congenial
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: tends to invigorate and vitalize both persons. Sex is always creative,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: and the sex magnetism tends to create new vitality in
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: the persons whose magnetism is harmonious. The ascetic or the
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: person of either sex who avoids the company of the
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: opposite sex is apt to become withered. Devitalized and impoverished
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: in nerve, force and blood supply. Such people fly in
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  Speaker 1: the face of nature and suffer the consequence. It is
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  Speaker 1: a necessity of normal life for persons of opposite sexes
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  Speaker 1: to mingle in each other's company and to receive and
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: give the magnetic benefits resulting therefrom it is the union
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  Speaker 1: of the sex magnetism which draws the majority of married
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: people together. Originally, each feels a glow when in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the other, Each feels the revitalization that takes
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: place when they are together. Each feels better, stronger, happier,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: and more vital when in the other's company. No proof
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  Speaker 1: of this is needed, for the experience of nearly every
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: person will corroborate the statement. Then, why, you may ask
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: does this not continue with all married people? The answer
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  Speaker 1: is very simple. Married people too often dissipate and waste
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: the sex magnetism by the unnatural sex indulgences of which
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: we have spoken. Very often these practices or abuses of
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: married life cause a depolarization or reversal of the sex magnetism,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: which results in creating a condition of repulsion between the
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: married pair in place of the attraction which originally existed.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: This regrettable condition may be changed, however, and the normal
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  Speaker 1: conditions restored, if the couple will turn away from the
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: perverted conditions which they have maintained and replace them with natural, clean,
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  Speaker 1: wholesome relations of comradeship, companionship, and mutual harmony. Married men
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  Speaker 1: and women can be of the greatest use to each
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: other if they will but maintain the proper kind of
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: sex relationship, instead of weakening and devitalizing one or the other,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: or even both, which latter deplorable condition we see in
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: evidence in so many cases of people who have failed
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: to grasp the true secret of the marriage relationship. On
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: the mental plane, we also find the manifestation of the
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: sex principle, not only in the direction we have indicated
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: in the opening chapters of this book, but also in
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: the direction of the inspiration and incitement to active thinking
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: that two persons of opposite sexes exert upon each other
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: if they are in proper harmony. It will be found
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: in the majority of cases of successful men in wars
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: women in the prominent fields of human endeavour, that the
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: successful man or the successful woman is inspired by the
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: companionship and understanding of the other sex and sad to relate.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: In many cases of unhappy marriages, the lack of inspiration
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: is not caused by any fault in the person of
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: the opposite sex in question. But this is because the
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: original bond of unity has been allowed to become a
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: burden and a hindrance by reason of the lack of
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: understanding of the true sex relationship. The mental rapport of
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: the two persons having been allowed to perish, one or
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: both will instinctively seek for the inspiration or rapport of
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: sympathy of some other person of the opposite sex. We
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: hear much of affinities in these days, and the majority
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: of persons think that these attractions between persons of the
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: opposite sexes always arise from pure lust or physical attraction.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: But such is not the case, for in many cases
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: the parties to these entanglements are originally attracted by mental
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: characteristics and qualities. There as a subtle attractive force attached
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: to the quality of mental understanding of one person by another.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: Every mind instinctively seeks and reaches out for understanding, and
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: in too many cases there is none of this quality
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: to be found in those in whom it should be.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: Quite in evidence The result is that when a man
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: or woman is brought in contact with one of the
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: other sex who can and does understand, there is sure
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: to be an attraction and a desire for each other's company,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: which often leads direct homes and ruined lives. That so
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: many of these affinity attachments afterward degenerate into purely physical
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: or even lustful relationship is only another proof of the
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: fact that the prostitution of the natural sex instinct to
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: purposes other than its normal function is sure to work evil.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Let us quote a few lines from a writer in
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: the magazines, whose words carry with them a sense of
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: realization of the normal and desirable conditions which should exist
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: between husband and wife. On the mental plane. The writer says,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: the more things that a man and woman mutually love,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: the greater will be their love for each other. The
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: more things in which they are mutually interested, the greater
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: will be their interest in each other. The object of
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: their mutual interest may be children, work, books, hobbies, other people,
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: or what not. It matters not so much just what
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: the thing is. That there should be outside things, many
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: of them, in which the two should be mutually interested.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: There should be outside plains upon which the two minds
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: should be able to meet. Heed this lesson you, men
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: and women, read between the lines of these hastily written pages,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: for through it all runs a vein of truth that
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: may bring happiness to many of you, that may tend
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: to prevent a further breach between some of you who
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: have already drawn apart while treading the path that God
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: intended that you two people should tread together, if at all,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: side by side, shoulder to shoulder, eyes level with eyes,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: looking out upon the world together and seeing together the
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: same scenes of that wondrous land through which you are
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: in now journeying marriage. True marriage means comradeship above everything else.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: And unless this be had, then the essence of the
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: thing is missing, and not but the husk and unsatisfying
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: outer materials remain. And this is a part of what
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: a quarter century of wifehood has taught me, A quarter
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: century of mingled prosperity and adversity, of pleasure and pain,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: of ups and downs, of sunshine and shadow, of storm
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: and calm, all of which I have tried to face
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: with confidence and faith, inspired always by the knowledge that
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: by my side was one who both understood and was understood,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: and by reason of it all, I know that I
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: have gained that without which all would have been lost,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: but which gained causes me to feel that all through
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: which I have lived, yes, all bitter and sweet alike,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: was well lived and worth while comradeship in marriage, there
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: is a plain still higher than that of mind, in
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: which sex is manifest, the spiritual plane. While it is
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: impossible in a book of this kind to consider this
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: phase of the matter in detail, we wish to say
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: that man and woman mount the latter of spiritual attainment
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: hand in hand, and by each other's help. Akin to
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: the inspiration on the mental plane, is this higher source
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: of help, sympathy, and encouragement of this higher life on
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: the spiritual plane is to be found the highest form
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: and phase of love, love which is concerned with the
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: evolution and unfoldment of the soul of the loved one,
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: rather than with the generation of the species. To many,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: this form of love must of necessity seem as but
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: a faint dream or the idlest fancy. But to those
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: who have caught even a faint glimpse of its reality
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: and existence, it causes all else to fade into insignificance.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: But the higher, the height, the greater the fall. Therefrom
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: and mortals must ever guard against, allowing the perverted instincts
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: of the physical plane from entering into the paradise of
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: a love of this kind and dragging down into the
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: depths a love whose true home is on the height.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: If such a love as this has come to you,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: treasure it carefully, guard it jealously from the encroachment of
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: the lower senses, preserve it ever as the pearl of
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: great price. It is not permitted to speak in general
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: terms to the general public about this manifestation of sex.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: On the spiritual plane, it dwells in a world of
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: its own, sheltered from the profane gaze of the vulgar
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: and materialistic crowd. As Emerson says, every man's words who
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: speaks from that life must sound vain to those who
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: I dare not speak for it. My words do not
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: carry its august sense. They fall short and cold. Only
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: itself can inspire whom it will. But it is real
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: to those who have experienced it, the one real thing
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: in a world of illusions. Chapter ten, Regeneration. Nature devotes
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: a great amount of energy to the task of reproducing
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: living forms. Many of the lower forms of life seem
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: to live merely for the purpose of reproducing life, of
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: passing along the flame of life from torch to torch.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: Nature's reproductive energies are highly concentrated and are wonderfully potent.
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: The amount of creative energy concentrated and compressed into the
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: mustard seed is equal to that diffused over a whole
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: large plant. In fact, the entire creative energy which is
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: to serve the plant for its lifetime must be stored
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: up within the seed itself, for the vital force cannot
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: come from outside. Although the outer nourishment is needed to
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: build up the physical shape, form and substance, the germ
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: of the animal contains within itself enough stored up energy
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: to carry the animal through its normal period of life.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: In the processes of reproduction and procreation, Nature avails herself
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: of her inner powers, and every minute she works miracles
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: of concentration and conservation of energy. The ancient occultists recognize
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: the wonderful power stored in the reproductive organism, which is
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: given out no not only in the act of actual
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: reproduction and procreation, but which may be also dissipated in
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: the unnatural excesses and practices to which the race is addicted.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: They soon discovered that this wonderful concentrated power could be
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: and is used, not only for the purpose of generation,
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: but also for the purpose of regeneration of the life
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: activities within one's own body, the exhaustion of which occurs
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: if the vital forces be not given out in procreation
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: or waste. In other words, that the wonderful concentrated forces
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: of the sexual functions, if not otherwise used or dissipated,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: might be used by the individual himself or herself in
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: re energizing, recharging, or regenerating the vital powers within his
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: or her own organism. This was one of the reasons
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: that continence was enjoined as a duty upon the members
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: of the ancient, esoteric and occult brotherhoods and sisterhoods. A. B. Stockholm,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: m d. Says physicists have demonstrated with incontrovertible facts that
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: it is eminently help to conserve the vital principle the
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: seminal secretion has a wonderfully imminent value, and if retained,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: is absorbed into the system and adds enormously to man's magnetic, mental,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: and spiritual force. In ordinary married life, this force is
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: constantly being wasted. Other things being equal, the man who
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: wisely conserves is in concentrated mental and physical power and effectiveness.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: Like a daniel amid his companions, he builds and constructs.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: He is the organizer and executive head of industries. He
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: is the orator and the inventor. He is the leader
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: of great movements because his power is drawn from an
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: inexhaustible storage battery. Although woman has not the seaman to conserve,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: yet equally with man, she has the thrilling potency of
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: passion that, when well directed, heals sensitive nerves, vitalizes the blood,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: and restores tissue. Newton says, it is important to know
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: that there are other uses for the procreative element than
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: the generation of physical offspring, far better uses than its
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: waste in momentary pleasure. It may indeed be better wasted
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: than employed in imposing unwelcome burdens upon toiling and outraged women.
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: But there should be no waste. This element, when retained
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: in the system, may be coined into new thoughts, perhaps
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: new inventions, grand conceptions of the true, the beautiful, the useful,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: or into fresh emotions of joy and impulses of kindness
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: and blessing to all around. This is, in fact, but
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: another department of procreation. It is the procreation of thoughts, ideas,
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: feelings of good will, intuitions of truth. That is, it
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: is procreation on the mental and spiritual planes instead of physical.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: It is just as really a part of the generitive
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: function as is the begetting of physical offspring. It is
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: by far the greater part, for physical procreation can ordinarily
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: be participated in, but seldom, while mental and spiritual procreation
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: may and should go on through all our earthly lives,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: yeat through all our immortal existence. J. H. Kellogg, m d.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: Says it has been claimed by many, even by physicians,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: and though with but a slight show of reason, that
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: absolute continence after full development of the organs of reproduction
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: could not be maintained without great detriment to health. It
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: is needless to enumerate all the different arguments employed to
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: support this position, since they are, with a few exceptions,
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: too frivolous to deserve attention. The popular notions upon this
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: subject are wholly erroneous. Their general acceptance has been due,
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: without doubt to the strong natural bias in their favor.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: It is an easy matter to believe what agrees well
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: with one's predilections. A bare surmise on the side of
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: the prejudice is more telling than the most powerful logic
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: on the other side. Professor Mayer says, it is determined,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: in our opinion that the commerce of the sexes has
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: no own necessities that cannot be restrained without peril. The
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: contrary belief appears to us to be erroneous, without foundation
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: and easily refuted. Health does not absolutely require that there
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: should ever be an omission of seamen from puberty to death,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: though the individual live a hundred years. Acton says there
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: exists no greater error, nor one more opposed to physiological truth,
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: than that which holds that continence produces impotence. In the
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: first place, I may state that I have, after many
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: years experience, never seen a single instance of atrophy of
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: the generative organs. From this cause I have. It is
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: true met the complaint, But in what class of cases
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: does it occur? It arises in all instances from the
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: exactly opposite cause of use. The organs become worn out
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: and hence arises atrophy. Physiologically considered it is not a
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: fact that the power of secretion is annihilated in well
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: formed adults leading a healthy life, and yet remaining continent.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: No continent man need be deterred by this apocryphal fear
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: of atrophy from leading a chaste life. It is a
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: device of the unchased, a lame excuse for their own incontinence,
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: unfounded on any physiological law. Doctor Kellogg makes the following
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  Speaker 1: important statement, which corroborates the theories of the ancient occult teachers.
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  Speaker 1: Recent investigations have shown that the sexual glands are useful
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  Speaker 1: not only as a means of race perpetuation, but for
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  Speaker 1: the physical well being of the individual through the vital
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  Speaker 1: stimulus exercised by them, through the influence of their peculiar
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  Speaker 1: secretion upon the processes of development and nutrition. In view
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  Speaker 1: of this fact, it is evident that, so far as
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  Speaker 1: the individual is concerned, physical benefit is to be looked
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  Speaker 1: for not in the loss of the secretion of the
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  Speaker 1: sexual glands, but in its retention and appropriation. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: reproduction is accomplished at the sacrifice of individual interests, a
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  Speaker 1: law which prevails throughout the whole organic world, being in
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  Speaker 1: some instances so pronounced that the development of progeny is
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  Speaker 1: accomplished only through the death of one or both parents.
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  Speaker 1: These discoveries afford thoroughly satisfactory and scientific explanation of two
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  Speaker 1: facts which heretofore have rested solely upon a basis of
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  Speaker 1: observation and experience. One that contnance is favorable to physical vigor.
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  Speaker 1: Two that sexual intemperance is productive of exhaustion and debility
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  Speaker 1: to a most extraordinary degree. Doctor Nicholas says it is
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  Speaker 1: a medical and a physiological fact that the best blood
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  Speaker 1: in the body goes to form the elements of reproduction
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  Speaker 1: in both sexes. In a pure and orderly life, this
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  Speaker 1: matter is reabsorbed, it goes back into the circulation, ready
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  Speaker 1: to form the finest brain, nerve, and muscular tissue. This
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  Speaker 1: life of man, carried back and diffused through his system
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  Speaker 1: makes him manly, strong, brave, heroic. The suspension of the
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  Speaker 1: use of the generative organs is attended with a notable
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  Speaker 1: increase of bodily and mental vigor and spiritual life. And,
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  Speaker 1: as another writer has said, nature finds another use for
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  Speaker 1: the unexpended sexual energy in employing it for the building
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  Speaker 1: up of a keener brain and more vital and enduring
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  Speaker 1: nerves and muscles. Outside of the list of the occult brotherhoods,
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  Speaker 1: all of whom were strictly continent, History gives us a
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  Speaker 1: long list of eminent men who followed the practice of continents,
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  Speaker 1: which indicates the correctness of the old occult teachings of regeneration. Newton, Kant, Pascal, Michelangelo, Plato,
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  Speaker 1: and many other eminent men were strictly continent. All the
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  Speaker 1: great occultists and mystics of ancient times observed strict continents.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek athletes training for the Great Olympic Games were
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  Speaker 1: compelled to observe strict continents, the experience being that by
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  Speaker 1: this course they were able to conserve their vigor and
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  Speaker 1: strength much better. The prize fighters of today are compelled
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  Speaker 1: by their trainers to observe strict continents during the period
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  Speaker 1: of training. Many of the former champions who went to
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  Speaker 1: pieces suddenly owe their downfall to a violation of this rule.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Henderson, after years of experience in tropical countries, has said,
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  Speaker 1: I have seen many suffer severely destroying their strength, health,
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  Speaker 1: happiness and life by following the promptings of their unbridled passions.
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  Speaker 1: Need I say that I have never seen a man
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  Speaker 1: suffer from keeping himself pure. Doctor Kellogg well states the
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  Speaker 1: philosophy of continence as follows. The sexual function is double
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  Speaker 1: in its purpose. First, the sexual organs are always active,
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  Speaker 1: even when not excited to such a degree as to
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  Speaker 1: obtrude their activity upon the consciousness, as they supply the
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  Speaker 1: body with a needed vital stimulus and regulator. Secondly, they
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  Speaker 1: furnish the only means by which the physical life of
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  Speaker 1: the individual and the perpetuation of the race may be accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: In neither of these important functions is the personal gratification
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  Speaker 1: of the individual the primary consideration. The exercise of the
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  Speaker 1: sexual function with a purely self viish purpose would seem
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  Speaker 1: to be a debasement of the sacred function in which
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  Speaker 1: man approaches most nearly to the creative power of which
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  Speaker 1: he is the image. But there is quite a difference, however,
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  Speaker 1: between the intelligent practice of continence on the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: and the practice of an unnatural asceticism on the other.
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  Speaker 1: In intelligent continents, the sexual power function and organism is
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  Speaker 1: respected as one of the highest pieces of nature's handiwork,
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  Speaker 1: the symbol of the great creative force of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: To be used either for the purpose of procreation and reproduction,
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  Speaker 1: or else for the equally high purpose of regeneration, of
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  Speaker 1: self strengthening and development. On the other hand, the unnatural
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  Speaker 1: view of certain schools of asceticism regards the sexual power, function,
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  Speaker 1: and organism as something impure and vile. The continent occultist
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  Speaker 1: or mystic does not revile his sexual power, nor does
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  Speaker 1: he despise it. On the contrary, he rejoices in its possession.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of wasting and dissipating it in excesses or
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  Speaker 1: unnatural indulgences, he transmutes it in regeneration and builds up
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  Speaker 1: his physical, mental, and spiritual nature. Those who despise the
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  Speaker 1: sexual nature, and who fear and loathe it, bring upon
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  Speaker 1: themselves the inevitable reaction which always accompanies the unnatural practice
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  Speaker 1: of opposing any of nature's plans and processes as evil.
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  Speaker 1: They bring upon themselves the negative condition by which their
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  Speaker 1: creative forces are neutralized and inhibited, and they suffer in health, mind,
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  Speaker 1: and spirit. There is nothing impure about sex. The impurity
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  Speaker 1: lies in the abuse and unnatural use of the sexual functions.
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  Speaker 1: Continence is a positive process. Asceticism is a negative process.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference as wide as the poles between
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  Speaker 1: the two. Do not make the mistake of trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill out the sexual nature. Instead, strive to strengthen and
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  Speaker 1: develop it, but transmute its energies scientifically, intelligently, and naturally,
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with the world old, occult and mystic tea
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  Speaker 1: of regeneration. This, then, is the ancient wisdom regarding regeneration
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  Speaker 1: stated in a few pages. Consider it carefully, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be richly rewarded. The ascetic places himself in opposition
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  Speaker 1: to the currents of nature's creative forces. The continent individual
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  Speaker 1: places himself in full accord with the great life forces
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  Speaker 1: of nature. Instead of neutralizing his force, he conserves and
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  Speaker 1: transmutes it. Grasp the inner meaning of the paradox of sex,
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  Speaker 1: and you will have in your hand the control of
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  Speaker 1: many of the finer forces of the cosmos. We can
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  Speaker 1: but hint at the whole truth here. The time is
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  Speaker 1: not come for the full teaching, neither is this the place.
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  Speaker 1: But he who practices the teachings contained herein will place
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  Speaker 1: himself well upon the road to attainment, and the further
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  Speaker 1: truth will come to him as he progresses. Such is
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  Speaker 1: the law of the path of attainment,