ly the
finer law of correspondences or they fail to appeal to such as these,
and become to the occult a mild form of blasphemy.

LOVE.

No phase of human character--of mental or spiritual philosophy--has
engrossed so much attention or received such a variety of treatment as
has human love. Nearly everyone who thinks at all, has been brought,
at some stage of experience, to an attempt at analyzing the emotional,
sentimental nature, asking: "What is Love?"

In contradistinction to that which repels, and disintegrates, it is
attraction. Love is God, it draws elements together, and holds them in
proper spheres. It centralizes and builds up. It is controlled by
fixed laws; it is only "blind" to those who have not investigated its
nature, and office unshrinkingly, with an eye to a complete
understanding of its true function. Devoted humanitarians have shown
us how to feed, exercise, and rest the physical system, in order to
produce health. Ministers of the Gospel have taught souls the way of
life ever-lasting. Professors of the various sciences and arts, useful
and ornamental, have instructed the intellects of men, and now and then
a woman; but with all these, the affections--the crowning--rather the
integral element of all life and being, have had few, or no exponents
who have ever attempted to treat them from any basis which can be
called philosophical, or which could ever serve as a guide to one
uninitiated in their occult phases.

The ordinary expression of this part of the nature, is a vampyrism
which is constantly on the alert to see what, and how much it can
gobble up for its own delectation. This is the lowest grade. It
begins with the selfism of the individual, its manifestations are named
lust. It seeks expression through the sensuous nature, but extends to
the spirit and will.

O Love! What crimes are committed in thy name! What laying waste of
true and tender hearts, what defacing of sweet bodies, fashioned and
set up as temples of the spirit!

This vampyrism extends through every department of the affectional
nature. It exists not only among men and women recognized as lovers,
married or otherwise, but parents are ghouls to their children, and
friends devour each other without stint. Attraction is that law which
draws together two opposite elements or forces, positive and negative,
or male and female. As the nature and attributes of a human being are
multiform, so are the attractions,