There is equilibrium.

It is probable that to those who cannot compass the consciousness that
equality does not mean identicalness this sort of balanced life will
appear tame and tasteless. Few women perhaps and certainly fewer men
can imagine a sex-union in which love is so great, so over-powering
and at the same time so perfect, that there is no room for jealousy.
The average person believes that jealousy is inseparable from
sex-love. But even as our antediluvian ancestors could not imagine the
mechanical miracles of the telephone and the telegraph, so we fail to
comprehend the infinite depth and intensity of our interior being
until we come to the place where we awake from the sleep of the mortal
and glimpse the heights of the immortal life.

No one can give to another this interior wisdom--this philosopher's
stone, by means of which all baser instincts are transmuted into the
pure golden-tinted light of illumination. He can but point the way and
promise that the results are mathematically proportionate to effort,
and effort will be backed by individual desire.

We do not hold, as do many writers dealing with the physiological side
of the subject of Sex, that the sex function is primarily designed for
purposes of procreation and that any other expression of sex is
contrary to nature. The essential function of sex is to vitalize.
Procreation is one of the uses of sex-love, but it is not its primary
function.

Until men and women have absolute control over their sex impulses they
are still on the plane of sense-consciousness; and as long as they
remain only sense-conscious they miss the very thing that they seek.
All that is pleasureable in sex-contact that reaches any man or woman
who is only sense-conscious is no more than a faint echo of the
ecstacy of divine and perfect love which is known to the spiritual
alchemist, who has discovered the art of transmutation and thus found
the key to the gate of eternal life.

As long as we remain limited to the plane of sense-consciousness, old
age is a blessing. It compels transmutation of the love-nature into
interior channels. By the failure of the physical organism to express
the sex-desires, this force is given an opportunity to become
transmuted into higher, finer and more intense and beautiful thoughts.
It takes on whatever quality of soul we have acquired and it fosters
that quality--be it much or little--so that we may not go into the
interior realms a spiritual