worthy of our respect. It certainly takes
courage for a defenseless woman to bear a fatherless child, in a
hypocritical world.

The normal woman does not live who would not rather be safely and
happily married to the man whom her soul tells her exists somewhere in
the universe, than to be battling with the problem of existence,
alone. When she is so married, we need not fear that the marriage will
be disrupted. Until she is so married, no power on earth can, and no
power in Heaven will, prevent the disruptions, although man's laws may
temporarily obstruct the evidence of such disruption.

What we have already said will make it clear, that our contention is
that affinities are not necessarily soul-mates; that, in fact, we may
have many and various kinds of affinities, but no one can possibly
have more than one soul-mate.

Mates are two entities composing a pair. They are the two halves that
make a whole. Unlike what we know of affinities, they are not merely
similar; nor yet opposite, so that they attract each other because of
curiosity or dissimiliarity.

They belong to each other because together they complete a perfect
balance. Each supplies in the exact proportion required for balance
the qualities lacking in the other.

In the event of such union, instinctive procreation will cease, and
re-generation will begin. They will consciously beget souls, instead
of merely providing bodies for souls to manifest upon this external
plane of consciousness.

Bodily contact is not essential to this phase of sex-union, because
the real conjunction is between the interior natures; and the interior
nature exists independently of the physical organism.

Already the race-thought is beginning to realize interiorly. This is
manifest in the daily press; in music and drama; and in all the
avenues of the senses. That intangible, elusive but potential thing
called "character" forms the gist of editorial advice. Everywhere we
note a tendency to look below the appearance of things, and to fathom
the depths of psychological analysis. For the first time in centuries
the race-thought seeks the underlying cause for specific effects,
instead of, as heretofore, being satisfied to deal with effects only,
suppressing those that are unpleasant and extolling those that seem
agreeable.

The scientist expresses it thus: "Nature is giving up her secrets to
man." The metaphysician puts it this way: "The soul of man is
unveiling, and soon we sha