CHAPTER XII

"SELLING THE THRONES OF ANGELS"

Great as may seem to the sense-conscious person the pleasure and
satisfaction of owning some one, or some thing; of possessing and
feeling a proprietorship in the one desired; greater by a million-fold
is the pleasure of union which is possible only to those who are
themselves free, and who in consequence desire freedom for all others.
This is a truth which the unwise cannot comprehend or concur in, and
which they will not believe or trust.

Emerson says: "Every personal consideration that we allow costs us
heavenly state. We sell the thrones of angels for a short and
turbulent pleasure."

And finally, as regards the sex-function, we would like to impress
upon every one, though only those who are fit for the kingdom will
understand the truth, namely that the highest manifestation of
sex-love is not localized in the organs of procreation. The love that
is of the soul fills the breast first of all, and is only felt in the
region popularly, but erroneously, supposed to circumscribe the
sex-function, as a secondary and by no means compulsory consideration.

When the sex force has become diffused throughout the entire being,
radiating from the solar man, and permeating the mind and thus
entering into the mortal body which is only a covering of the mind
physical copulation becomes a well-trained servant of the will, and is
found to be a natural, but yet secondary complement. Sex is not
confined to the specialized sex-organs. It permeates the entire being.
The person who has no conception of his reality other than as a
physical entity has not so much as touched the area of spiritual
ecstacy which has been alluded to as "the nectar of the gods;" and so
infinitely fine and perfect is the plan of Creation that he can not do
so until he is fit; and never can he be fit as long as he remains upon
the sense-conscious plane and seeks by sexual perversity and
debauchery and sexual insanities to touch that exquisite perfection of
joy which he intuitively knows evades him.

Thus the sensual man is caught is a beneficent trap; a wise and just
and merciful Power has so placed the "Holy of Holies," that it cannot
be defiled; it cannot be reached; it cannot be desecrated. It is
forever removed from the touch of the unworthy. No man can hope to
express the creative power, the sexual realization of a god, through
the functions which