like the ascending notes of the
musical scale, we will be able to get a more comprehensive idea of the
spiritual function of the sex-urge. We will realize that we can not
mark a too distinctive separation between the various phases of
life-manifestation.

We imagine that the physical life is widely at variance with the
mental, the psychical, or the spiritual, when as a matter of fact each
blends into the other, when we rightly understand their place and
purpose, as harmoniously as the notes of the musical scale blend into
the grand compositions of the Masters.

"As above so below, and as below so above," is a truism which we may
safely take as our first maxim. Whatever we note as a fundamental
principle of this external life which we cognize with our five senses
(senses which merge so into the psychical that we know not always
where the line demarks) has a permanent place in the Cosmos.
Therefore we must conclude that a fact so universal as that of sex,
and sex-attraction, must be grounded in something more stable, more
permanent and enduring than the mere creation of physical forms.

Protoplasm, the only living substance, is found everywhere in the
visible world and its universality is symbolical of the invisible
worlds as well. Transparent, colorless, it contains within itself the
mystery of reproduction. It forms the basis of the vegetable and the
animal kingdoms. It is seen in bone and muscle and fibrous tissue, and
protoplasm may be said to contain within its cells the principles of
both sexes. It is not sexless, but bi-sexual; not neuter but
masculine-feminine. Every form of life has sex, and in some rare
instances both sexes are present in one form. This does not mean that
there is another phase of sex unclassified, but rather it proves the
union in one _Whole Entity_ of the two distinct principles, and by
this fact of the "twain made one" we may know that Sex is the very
crux of the cosmic law; that not only does it survive the mere
physical expression of the law, but that the object of the
sex-function is the spiritual union of the two principles, a male and
a female entity, forming one complete and perfect Being--the true
representative of the bi-une Being whom we know as God.

Absolute and perfect union is possible only at the center, the crux,
of Being. This truth is represented by the algebraical X, the symbol
of spiritual sex-union. Therefore sex relationships which do not have
for their crux spiritua