eteness and fullness of joy, unless
there is the one mate with whom he may share his altruistic work; or
lacking this, he looks to the Life Beyond for the completeness which
he does not find here.

Renan says: "One reason why religion remains on such a material plane
for many is because they have never known a great and vitalizing love;
a love where intellect, spirit and sex finds its perfect mate."

Verily, love is the only vitalizing power in the universe; and when
denied the interior union which should exist between a conjoining
pair, Love does the best He can, and infuses into the relationship as
much of the divine nectar as they will accept.

_There is no impure love._ I repeat: There is no impure love. The
impurity is in the mortal mind of man, obstructing his vision until he
fails to see the purity of that which fain would lift him from the
Slough of Despond to the Heights of Bliss.

If love be always pure, if it be always the uplifting, unifying,
constructive power of the universe, what becomes of the apparent fact
that men have sinned for love of woman; that for love of man, women
have lost their self-respect, their hope of Heaven; and have sunk to
depths below that of the brute creation?

What becomes of the all too many instances where human nature appears
to love vice; to be under the spell, as it were of a passionate love
for all that is ignoble and defiling? How, then, can we say that love
is always pure when it leads to such disaster?

Love never leads to disaster, though love may follow wheresoever the
erring mind of man leads, and thus Love is all too frequently dragged
from his true place of exaltation, and brought into the arena of human
conflict. Love is no fighter; He never opposes; He only concurs; He
unites if there is anything with which he can establish an affinity of
union.

Egoism is the arch-enemy of love, selfishness is the manifestation of
egoism. Selfishness seeks to possess; it is selfishness that causes a
man to commit crime, in order that he may bedeck the woman he loves
with jewels and fine raiment. He is buying her bodily presence with
the baubles which he vainly believes will bind her to him; and he must
be taught the lesson of the Yoga sutras "not this way; not this way;"
and the more worthy he is of redemption, the more certainly will he be
caught in the trap of his own making, lest he really perish; whereas
by seeming defeat, outward defeat, he may learn the true path of