are not higher in consciousness than those of the
animal.

Would you attain to the status of the divine man? If so, do not
imagine for a moment that the divine man is less vital than your puny
physical powers would suggest. Neither should you imagine that the
sex-function, even in its lowest state (lowest because most lacking in
love-consciousness), is anything but pure and clean and right and
normal in itself; the attitude of the average man and woman invests it
with all its uncleanness.

But with all the vile thought which the undeveloped mind has indulged
in respecting the sex-relation; with all the man-made laws arrayed
against it as though it were criminal, and the teachings of the Church
denying its spiritual origin and perpetuation; with women selling it
in the public markets for their physical maintenance, nothing less
than the fact of the eternality and universality of Sex, as the divine
fulcrum of manifestation, can account for the fact that the poor
little bi-une Love-god is after all coming to be recognized as the
hope and savior of Mankind.

If you would have eternal youth and eternal life and love and wisdom,
accept this truth, because nothing else can, or will, save you from
the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune."

Another vague query presents itself to the would-be initiate, and we
would like to leave this chapter with no misunderstandings; no
misconceptions; no misleading statements, because that which we are
here stating is not theory. It is the one eternal, undying, simple and
unescapable truth which has withstood the onslaughts of time and
ignorance.

The query comes and although it has been answered in previous chapters
we will again state it, so that there may be no mistake: If the
balance is found in counterpartal sex-union--the one man and the one
woman uniting on the solar plane--would not this balance be maintained
if only one of the two reached the higher planes of consciousness; in
other words, would not the balance be struck by extreme purity on the
one hand and extreme impurity on the other?

Again we are reminded that the law of the cosmos is wise; that there
are no mistakes nor flaws in the cosmic scheme. The answer is that the
union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses. Each one must
be balanced, the nature rounded, the soul awake before union is
possible. Thus we are saved from ourselves. We cannot, if we would,
really gain at the expense of another, although